online resources for breeders, handlers, trainers, vets etc.

Having recently purchased a beautiful, sweet, sweet, sweet companion
miniature australian shepherd from a responsible breeder and having some
time on my hands, I am thinking of creating a website hosting service with
value-added features geared toward the specific needs of animal breeders,
handlers, trainers, kennels/stables, veterinarians etc.

For instance, to add value for breeders, I am thinking of providing features
for creating pedigrees and for calculating COI/RC to research potential
breedings etc.

Knowing that responsible dog breeding, for instance, is not exactly a
profit-motivated business and observing that many breeders use very low-cost
hosting services, I am trying to assess whether sufficient interest in such
a service exists to warrant pursuing the idea. I think I would need a fairly
good response to justify the cost of gathering and storing the pedigree
information for each of the breeds.

I would love to hear your opinions good or bad. If you have any ideas for
featues you would like to see or if you think your needs are already
well-served elsewhere, please let me know.

While I have cross-posted this request to a number of newsgroups, I have set
the follow-up to just one newsgroup and I would prefer to receive responses
via email unless you are certain the response would interest the general
readership of the newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,
Bob

Don't take this as gospel, but I would think if you can devise anyway
of helping via pedigree, one breed would be optimum. Knowing the
pedigrees of one breed and what they carry and have to offer is the
work of a lifetime. If I have missed the mark on what you intend, I
apologize. Just ignore my post in that case. The number of people
who will tell you what is REALLY in their pedigree is close to NIL.
99 percent plus will tell you what you want to hear. It is such a
habit with them, as otherwise they would not sell their puppies very
often. Human nature being what it is, progress is in fits and starts
and usually due to a VERY small portion of the breeders who are
willing to sacrifice a whole lot to build and maintain a real
bloodline. 99 percent of breeders what puppies and studs from BIG
winners so they can maximize their income from the sale of puppies.
They either make little progress for the breed or push it backwards by
using dogs that WON WON WON but carry very serious problems and pass
them steadily to their get. After over 50 years in dogs I can assure
you that the above is at least my experience which I relate in all
honesty and full disclosure. People talk the talk but seldom walk the
walk. Their speech consists mostly of ba ba (sheep talk). They go
along to get along, and not only in dogs.
Good luck.



"Bob Badour" <bbadour.TakeThisOut@golden.net> wrote in message news:<icadnegzybKcnQGiU-KYhg.TakeThisOut@golden.net>...
> Having recently purchased a beautiful, sweet, sweet, sweet companion
> miniature australian shepherd from a responsible breeder and having some
> time on my hands, I am thinking of creating a website hosting service with
> value-added features geared toward the specific needs of animal breeders,
> handlers, trainers, kennels/stables, veterinarians etc.
>
> For instance, to add value for breeders, I am thinking of providing features
> for creating pedigrees and for calculating COI/RC to research potential
> breedings etc.
>
> Knowing that responsible dog breeding, for instance, is not exactly a
> profit-motivated business and observing that many breeders use very low-cost
> hosting services, I am trying to assess whether sufficient interest in such
> a service exists to warrant pursuing the idea. I think I would need a fairly
> good response to justify the cost of gathering and storing the pedigree
> information for each of the breeds.
>
> I would love to hear your opinions good or bad. If you have any ideas for
> featues you would like to see or if you think your needs are already
> well-served elsewhere, please let me know.
>
> While I have cross-posted this request to a number of newsgroups, I have set
> the follow-up to just one newsgroup and I would prefer to receive responses
> via email unless you are certain the response would interest the general
> readership of the newsgroup.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob