Canton Pomeranians

The following Blog 59 was originally published on December 21, 2011. It was unpublished a few days later after I got a call for the Starfire people who expressed their displeasure. Trying to cope with their sensitivities, I volunteered to have it unpublished. I have gagged myself wasting the opportunity of sharing my thoughts with my blog readers who could very well learn in the process. I have regretted this, and so now, I am republishing it.

It is again Christmas- time and this is a good opportunity to reflect on what has transpired over this year and to reach out for the new year ahead. As we do this, I cannot help but remember what I once heard: “...Give honor to those who have been ahead of us, Celebrate with our contemporaries, And encourage those that come after us. “

When your Pomeranian approach the breeding age, you start thinking about being a breeder. Since I am promoting quality breeding, I will omit pet breeding; ie, breeding without any objective in improving on the puppies. I will focus on upgrading the quality of your puppies whether the female pom that you have is of superior stock or not so superior.

When I talk to some breeders, whether they be breeders of Pomeranians or other breeds, I am totally shocked to hear some of their responses. And so, I thought of writing this blog to talk about breeding basics....the very basic basic...starting with acquiring your first puppy. This may be too basic for some, but hopefully, this would be helpful to at least some

Crabbing is a side-winding movement of a dog...moving in a diagonal path; moving like a crab. Without intervention, the dog cannot move in a straight line but rather in a diagonal path. The professional handler will pull the dog forcing him to move in a straight line. In turn, the dog will try to pull away from the handler in order to do his natural gait. Another way that a professional handler will try to hide this fault is by not walking in a straight line hoping that the judge will not notice.

The following was published by the Pomeranian Review, the official magazine of the American Pomeranian Club. I delayed in putting this in my blog so that it will not affect the said circulation of the magazine.

On March 3, 2011, Bravestar passed away. Autopsy report says death was due to heart failure. Dr Raymundo Lo, my dog-friend and the same time a top human pathologist cannot a give a more detailed explanation on the generic cause of heart failure. It cannot be concluded that this is genetic.

I have been breeding white Pomeranians for the past 12 years. One of the main difficulties and discouragements that I have encountered is acquiring good white Pomeranians and keeping their whiteness. When I buy them, they are practically snow white but after a few months, they are no longer that white...more of light cream and some even become dark biscuit. Over the years, this has puzzled me. Because of my desire to make them really white white, I would oftentimes sacrifice quality for the sake of getting that elusive white color. But it is always that same old story. They are born white but eventually they turn cream.....to dark biscuit. At least, there would be some yellowish tinge behind the ears or on the saddle.

For this Christmas, we, at Canton Pomeranians greet all our blog readers and friends with the joyful peace on this special occasion...that uncomprehensible kind of of inner peace and that joyful expectation of better things to come

All my blog readers must understand basic high school biology - the Mendelian theory. This concept is applied by mostly all animal breeders to their breeding program. Applying this to BSD, the main controversy will be to determine whether it is a dominant gene or a recessive gene? I am inclined to think that it is a recessive gene and this is what I call the Realistic Scenario. But I am sure that a lot of people because of their present nightmare will argue that it is a dominant gene, and this will be what I call the Pessimistic Scenario.