What is a Breeder? Breeder (with a capital B) is one who thirsts for knowledge and never really knows it all, one who wrestles with decisions of conscience, convenience, and commitment. A Breeder is one who sacrifices personal interests, finances, time, friendships, fancy furniture, and deep pile carpeting! She gives up the dreams of a long, luxurious cruise in favor of turning that all important show into this years "vacation." A Breeder goes without sleep (but never without coffee!) in hours spent planning a breeding or watching anxiously over the birth process, and afterwards, over every little sneeze, wiggle or cry. A Breeder skips dinner parties because that litter is due or the babieshave to be fed at eight. A Breeder's lap is a marvelous place where generations of proud and noble champions once snoozed. A Breeder's hands are strong and firm and often soiled, but ever so gentle and sensitive to the thrusts of a puppy's wet nose. A Breeder's back and knees are usually arthritic from stooping, bending, and sitting in the birthing box, but are strong enough to enable the breeder to show the next choice pup to a Championship. A Breeder's shoulders are stooped and often heaped with abuse from competitors, but they're wide enough to support the weight of a thousand defeats and frustrations. A Breeder's arms are always able to wield a mop, support an armful of puppies, or lend a helping hand to a newcomer. A Breeder's ears are wondrous things, sometimes red (from being talked about) or strangely shaped (from being pressed against a phone receiver), often deaf to criticism, yet always fine-tuned to the whimper of a sick puppy. A Breeder's eyes are blurred from pedigree research and sometimes blind to her own dog's faults, but they are ever so keen to the competitions faults and are always searching for the perfect specimen. A Breeder's brain is foggy on faces, but it can recall pedigrees faster than an IBM computer. It's so full of knowledge that sometimes it blows a fuse: it catalogues thousands of good bonings, fine ears, and perfect heads... and buries in the soul the failures and the ones that didn't turn out. A Breeder's heart is often broken, but it beats strongly with hope everlasting... and it's always in the right place! Oh, yes, there are breeders, and then, there are BREEDERS!!
Author: Peggy Adamson
Sent it by Paulina Fuenzalida Betteley - Chile

Now, you are my master and alone I request you love.
You have decided to become responsible for me and I am thanked by your determination.
A secret pact of trust that will never be smashed on my behalf will exist between both.
You will understand me for some time, I have just separated my mother and of my siblings.
You noticed me disoriented, restless and some nights me truth to cry...
If, the stranger, understand me, I will understand you then for many years.
I will be your best friend, I will understand your changes of humor, your happiness, your good days and your bad days, I will be to your side accompanying you in your solitude and in your sadness and I will always treat you with the same love, with the same loyalty.
I will lick the hand with which you punish me, because my capacity to forgive is infinite.
But you don't punish me, become trained. I ignore the details that can irritate you and I want to delight in everything.
I also want you to feel proud of me when you are tossed to your feet, when i walks down the street to your side as your faithfuler shade.
I want to respond to that dog ideal that point yearns, but it depends on you: I will be reflective in your way of educating me and of being.
Help me to not defrauding you. If you treat me with violence.... I will be aggressive.. 
You speak to me, I understand each one of your words, although doesn't answer you with the same language. Learns how to read my eyes and you will understand as much as I understand you; I know that you are a good person. What do you think of those that don't love the animals?
I am for sure you took care of me with love. You are my master.
Little by little we will become big friends, we will know each other and we will respect ourselves equally.
Look... when the first man appeared in the earth, the rest of the animals believed that it was another animal, however he had " soul ". Meditates on this.
The man manifests his soul through the language, us through our acts. My master that I love you to my way never forget. During more than 10 years I will be next to you, we will grow together, we will share so many and so many things, and the day that I will live to some star,  frequently looks at the sky because I will always be looking at you.  But I want to tell you something: don't leave my empty house, there is another puppy waiting for you and to which you ended up loving as much as to me. I don't want to leave in my testament an empty house now then, let us don't think of that day, make me a caress and it plays a while with me. We have many years for before to become happy.
It accompanies you,  takes care,  understands you and  loves you... YOUR DOG

Then you have decided to contract a professional handler to show their dog. There are many reasons been worth to use the services of a professional. The correct preparation and handling in the ring are not easily achieved. Some people can learn the art of it and with the practice and effort make the work well; other they never achieve it. To show the own dogs takes time and it is expensive and to contract a handler can be surprisingly more economic.

I have been inside the sport of the dogs for many years. I have worked for handlers and I have prepared and showed to my own dogs. Now, I even make my own grooming and all the dogs live with me, and I make them show by a professional handler. Then, I think that I can see the matter from different points of view and to offer some warning words to select a handler and to maintain a good work relationship with him or her.

From the point of view of the handler; the ideal client is rich, collaborator and flexible. Some handlers likes their clients to be involved in the campaign of their dogs and in the process of the taking of decisions. Others prefer their clients to live to a thousand miles of distance and they give them free hand and a check in white. Of the other side, the clients want that their handlers be dedicated and tireless. They want good modal and mainly they want results.

Unless you are extremely rich, he cannot wait the exclusive services of a handler, and their position in their organization it will probably be proportional to the work that you him of. This is a reality in the life, especially with the handlers of great fame”. in spite of their dedication for the sport, primarily they are making a work for a benefit. They have ended up being of " fame " working hard and being successful, perhaps you will obtain results; but don't look for the personal and accessible touch that  found but easily in a recently arrived upward youth. The knowledge and tact of their can miss new professionals but experienced colleagues, but they will be a little bit but desirous and for it a little bit but flexible and helpful.

Consider it very carefully before entering in connection with a handler. Do ask questions Wants a friend and consultant? Who the is responsible for the grooming and the preparation? Who the main one is in the taking of decisions? Will the dog live with the handler or in his house? That level of commitment this you willing to contract with the handler? Do you understand the structure of the honorarium and this informed of all the expenses that will be of their responsibility? How implied he wants to be in the whole process?

I suggest that interviewed to the handler and of course their Kennel visit. Do observe it in the exhibitions their happy dogs they are? Are pleasant people? It will be of a lot of help to speak with their clients it Takes a look to the individual and their organization. Do you feel relaxed and comfortable with the one? Do you trust that person so that he takes care of their dogs, the present professionally and be honest and frank trying with you?

As I have said many times the canine exhibitions they should be an amusement. When you decide to hire a handler the relationship company being it should and in no way of opponents. To maintain a good relationship, of course it is decisive that you try to their handler so honest and frankly as you wants to be treated. It works in both cases.

Take time of making some investigations before trusting their dog to somebody. You will be able to avoid possible malentendidos if  is an informed client with an open mind. Make that their expectations are clear and listen the answers sincerely from the handler to those expectations. Also listen the advice of the handler. The good ones know and they understand all the aspects of the sport of the dogs, and their experience is part of the professional service that they offer.

I am very fortunate since my handler is also a good friend. We respect ourselves one another and we have shared the emotion of the victory and the anguish of the defeat. We have spoken of the problems and continuous friends. Me alone I can want the same pleasure and satisfaction for all you.

By Patricia Peters (THE AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE)

In April of 1977 a record of 22.000 spectators Keenland converged to the Kentucky's Racecourse to see a called chestnut-colored filly Sexetary that ran in the third career. She had never competed but it was the favorite one for a single reason: their father." she was the daughter of Secretariat, the first winner of the Triple it Crowns and the biggest purasangre in all the times. Big it was the deception of the miltitud when she was placed in fourth place.

In the following years the descendants of Secretariat didn't stand out and having even served the best mares in the world it never reached the same greatness like reproducer that he possessed, their children (males) neither they were exceptional reproducers. He died in 1989 and it seemed that he closed an important chapter since in their descendant there was not a single outstanding copy as him.

Little before their death the breeders had begun to notice an inclination toward the descendant of their daughters, even those that had never won a career ended up being and they continue being some of the biggest mares sires in the world producing winning pure blood of the most important glasses. The exceptional athletics of Secretariat lives in the second generation of descendants taken place by its daughters.

Per years this phenomenon was popularized so much among the breeders of career horses that when they speak of a copy they always give the name of its parents and that of the maternal grandfather, however didn't have a scientific explanation of reason certain features they jumped a generation and they were passed alone through the females . Newly in 1997 an article appeared in the Magazine Equus N° 242 where there is documentation of the maternal grandfather's scientific evidence. It is hour that the breeders of dogs begin to keep in mind this phenomenon. REVIEWING CONCEPTS We know that each cell of the human body has 39 couples of chromosomes, 50% for the father and the other 50% for the mother. Each chromosome contains thousands of genes that code for different characteristic many of which we can observe (color of eyes, mantel, etc.) that the PHENOTYPE constitutes, what we cannot see is like they are constituted genetically and that is the GENOTIPO. However through the phenotype and with basic knowledge we can predict some genotipos. In those characteristics where it intervenes a single couple of genes and they combine in the Dominant-recessive form it is very simple, I didn't seize in those where many of these couples intervene for a single characteristic (poli genes) and they are exactly those that more they interest us as: angles, color of the mantel, size, etc. GENETIC EXPERIENCES AND EFFECT OF THE SEXThe theory of Mendel settled down that the sex of the donating gene (father or mother) it was inapplicable in the determination of which gene was expressed, this way if the mother contributed a dominant gene and the father one recessive the dominant one was expressed contributed by the female one and vice versa. They spent more than 100 years until the Dr. Allen in 1969 astonished to the world with a study that seemed to indicate that certain genes could be related to the sex in its expression and in 1986 the Dr. Surani with its experiments in mice concluded that some genes didn't follow the laws of Mendel, however, they are programmed to be activated before the fertilization in a such way that they will always be expressed by their descendants or disabled and they will never be expressed. The factor that determines if that class of genes is passed to the descendant in activated form or disabled it is the SEX of the donors. IMPRINTING OR GENOMIC'S MARKS A hypothesis sustains that a mechanism exists for the one which males and females can control the most essential features. In the fetal development the male's reproductive goal is for example to give the biggest and vigorous descending, but for the female to engender an extremely big foal could be mortal. Perhaps for this reason some critical genes of the fetal development are inactivados for the paternal imprinting, allowing to the genes of the female the complete control on many aspects of the fetal size.

TO JUMP A GENERATION

The imprinting genomic's believes an inheritance pattern whose expression is to jump a generation." To understand this, let us imagine a human gene with paternal imprinting that when it is expressed he gives descending with blue hair, when this gene is not expressed the color of its descendants' hair it is brown.

A man inherits the gene of his mother's blue hair and therefore his hair is blue. As him it is male the gene of the blue hair is disabled to transmit it, this way its male children will inherit the gene in inactive form and all will have brown hair. When their male children reproduce the gene it will remain inactive and all their grandsons (males and women), they will have the brown hair. But when this man's daughters reproduce, the gene in its activated form will make that all their children (males and women) they have the blue hair. Result: the characteristic reappears in the third generation, but only in the descendants of the man's of blue hair daughters. YOU DOUBT AND DEDUCTIONS

Many doubts are still on this phenomenon and the literature not yet gives us answers of like it can happen. The deductions of this discovery go beyond the world of the career horses. Already a number of human genes with imprinting has been pointed out. The breeders of dogs spread to be impatient and we plows disappointed when extraordinary bad don't it reproduces their excellence immediately, let us remember the maternal grandfather's effect and let us wait to generation.

Dr. Jorge Santoiani