All in a days work

[Fran]

Have pm'd you Smudgley

[Sweet]

Awwww little beauties - bless x

[dinahsmum]

Awwww, poopies! And so many!

[alexgirl73]

I've got another article for you if you want it Smudgley. My local free paper came in and there was another pic of thepups. I didn't realise there were different colours in the litter.

[Kazz]

Originally Posted by smudgley

Yes that makes sense.
You are right Kazz, the breeding stock are specially selected from the puppy walking programme, they would potentially have made very good working Guide Dogs - but go down a different path onto the breeding programme.
They have to be sound, have good conformation etc, have excellent hip scores, clear eye tests, shoulders & elbows are screened, they have a skin test, a heart test, a neospora titre count test, a character test & a blood clotting test (to check for WVD) if they get through that lot - they're in!
Lots of people think that we breed from Guide Dogs that don't make it so the ones that are not so good they think we breed from, not much logic there when you think about it

See that makes perfect sense to me breed from the best.