Show or Pet?

[Megan]

I think the term "breeding for pets" is a way to try to justify breedings that shouldn't be done. How many times do we see "I'm only breeding for pets, not for sure--so it doesn't matter if i breed fluffy and dusty from the local petstore"

IMO pet people deserve quaitly chins just as much as we do. A show chin can easily be a pet chin.

 

[threewingedfury]

Ok maybe I should clarify what I have stated before I get hate mail. I don't breed for pet quality animals. All of my breeder chins have been shown or evaluated and are what would be considered quality. I consider all of my kits to be pets until they prove otherwise. I don't feel comfortable selling one of my kits (8 weeks old) as a show quality animal because I don't know for sure that they will be show quality. I can say they came from quality parents, but you won't know until they're older and they're shown. I guess that is what I mean by breeding for pets. Maybe it's just in the terms that I'm using. I'm not trying to make money, gosh I wish I did. If I changed my name to Tiffany's Quality Show Chinchillas.. then I feel like it would be wrong because not all of my kits will be quality show chinchillas. I guess in a sense, I'm breeding for show quality animals, but in the beginning, they're pets.

 

[Sheri]

I don't think it matters what you say as ong as you breed to improve the animals. I think alot of us would like to "breed for show". I came into chins thinking I would breed to improve. If one of every 3 kts I have is show quality then I am doing good.

I have been really lucky as I took my first kit to a Feild day as a 5 month old and she took RCFS. I now have her younger brother coming up who in my opinion may be better than her. I am lucky so I hear. That I have some very good quality animals. I also got something that looked good to me that I have now pulled and will not breed because I don't feel that she is what I want. Would she produce "pet quality", sure she would if I let her.

I don't feel that pet quality is worth breeding for. I want someone who buys a kit from me to get show quality too when possible.

 

[starleomach]

I look at it as, all show animals have to potential to have pet quality. why not have show animals as pets and breed the best possible either way. the best of both worlds.

 

[mishalaa]

Any chin can be a pet, no matter if it won GSC or was put under the table. I have had people ask me if such and such chin I had listed for sale could go to a pet home, and I was taken aback. Of course they can. When I list a chin as "pet only," I intend for that chin to go to a home where it will not be bred. Chins not listed as "pet only" have the potential to be bred, but don't have to be.

I don't expect every kit I produce to take top awards, but any pair that doesn't produce any kit worth showing gets re-paired or culled completely. It's not responsible breeding to keep a pair together if they're not producing SOMETHING better than themselves and competitive with current standards. Again, not every kit has to be better (and these are the ones that get labeled "pet only"), but some ought to be.

People who excuse themselves from showing by saying they breed for pets and therefore don't care about fur quality, clarity, size or anything other than health are, IMO, lazy and don't take the betterment of all chinchillas to heart.

 

[Anne-Lise]

I look at it as, all show animals have to potential to have pet quality. why not have show animals as pets and breed the best possible either way. the best of both worlds.

I think thatit's exactly this! As long as you got the quality in a chin and you breed for improvement, the terms pet or show chin should only relate to what you want for them. I could very well show a baby and sell it as pet. And I think many people actually do that.

 

[Snickers]

My animals are bred as pets first and they are not the pet store chins. Showing will always come 2nd. I guess to me it doesn't matter since they are never up for sale any ways.

 

[VolunteerChin22]

Any chin can be a pet, no matter if it won GSC or was put under the table. I have had people ask me if such and such chin I had listed for sale could go to a pet home, and I was taken aback. Of course they can. When I list a chin as "pet only," I intend for that chin to go to a home where it will not be bred. Chins not listed as "pet only" have the potential to be bred, but don't have to be.

I don't expect every kit I produce to take top awards, but any pair that doesn't produce any kit worth showing gets re-paired or culled completely. It's not responsible breeding to keep a pair together if they're not producing SOMETHING better than themselves and competitive with current standards. Again, not every kit has to be better (and these are the ones that get labeled "pet only"), but some ought to be.

People who excuse themselves from showing by saying they breed for pets and therefore don't care about fur quality, clarity, size or anything other than health are, IMO, lazy and don't take the betterment of all chinchillas to heart.

Absolutely in agreement with this.