© Harmony Mountain Retrievers
Available
THIS LITTER MAY BE SOLD OUT. Maybelle is in heat and will be
bred to UCH Mac CGC, TKN, BN, CD. Pups are due 4/4/23 and will
be ready to home 5/30/23. More information on the litter can be
fo
und on their page: Mac and Maybelle Pups.
NOTE: Airlines’ scheduling and embargoes have made shipping
impossible. That said, pups must be picked up at our home in
Southern, UT or we can deliver the pups to you at the St. George Regional airport.
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If you are wondering why you should choose one of our pups, please read our Why Us page.
When selecting dogs for our breeding program, we consider
the following, in order of importance to us: 1) Temperament;
2) Diversity/Health of the Lines; 3) Working Instincts; 4)
Working Structure; and 5) Color.
DEW CLAWS & TAILS:
We no longer remove dew claws as doing so does not support a performance dog (read this and watch this).
Additionally, we no longer dock tails (read this). Our dogs definitely use their tails when swimming, so tails have
a very real and significant purpose.
VISITING OUR HOME:
Encouraging awareness of the attributes of our breed is our goal; and while we want to respond to each and
every person who emails us, we have many obligations that oftentimes keep us from doing that in a timely
manner; like family, jobs, training, hunt/field tests, etc. In fact, unless we are planning a litter or have pups on
the ground, we oftentimes are completely unable to respond to inquiries about our pups.
All of that said, we understand people's desires to stop in and meet our dogs as they travel to Utah (buyers have
a right to assess temperament, health, etc. of the parent dogs whose pups they are considering purchasing).
However, time dictates that we cannot currently accommodate these travellers except on severely limited days
(and generally only on Sundays because of our jobs and our desire to honor the Saturday Sabbath).
DIVERSITY:
We have made a large investment in the diversity of our breeding stock, and that isn't because we believe that
dogs with high Wycliffe (whose genetic makeups are found in the largest percentage of standard poodles) are
bad. Quite the contrary. We believe that all purebred poodles are necessary to correct the damage done through
intense inbreeding. The reality is that even some of the diverse lines we have been blessed to find are inbred,
but they are inbred on dogs from different DNA makeups (read about UC Davis’ Diversity Testing), which has
allowed them to create diversity in larger numbers of standard poodles. Breeding to "different" dogs is the key
to restoring balance within standard poodles and lowering the frequency of certain diseases, etc. We are
committed to that.
While written by a cat breeder, this article discusses inbreeding's effect on the immune system. It is our hope
that it will help you to understand why we have sought out the dogs currently used in our program and why
breeding for color has become very unimportant in the scheme of things. Health (and temperament) must come
first.
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