🎄 12 Days of Breeders 🎄

#93 – Q&A – Covering the Cost of Dog Food, Breeding on Antibiotics, Dealing with Animal Control, and DNA Diversity in Litters

#93 – Q&A – Covering the Cost of Dog Food, Breeding on Antibiotics, Dealing with Animal Control, and DNA Diversity in Litters

Ever wanted to ask me a question? I’m always looking to hear from you because what you ask, where you tell me you’re having struggles, that’s what I design my content around. It’s much more fun when I’m having a conversation with you, instead of just with myself....

#78 – Are You Getting In Your Own Way?

#78 – Are You Getting In Your Own Way?

My CPA would always give me that look. “I don’t know why you try and use that software…why don’t you just use Quickbooks? I could help you with Quickbooks. LOOK! I can’t even click on this … in Quickbooks I could click on this thing.” I love my CPA, she’s brilliant,...

#68 – Pause Your Breeding Program?

#68 – Pause Your Breeding Program?

There’s been a lot of talk recently about pausing your breeding program. As if you can simply push a button on the remote of life and make living things pause, yet I digress, I think they made that into a movie with Adam Sandler, right? Well, I wanted to chime in on...

#59 – Should You Quit Dog Breeding?

#59 – Should You Quit Dog Breeding?

When I was in my first year of breeding and lost eight puppies to giardia, I questioned if I should quit breeding, if I was worthy of being a dog breeder. It’s natural to go through the thoughts of quitting, to reflect and ask yourself if this is what you really want...

#I-1 – Branding with Drew Dzwonkowski

#I-1 – Branding with Drew Dzwonkowski

My brother is a master with design and in today’s interview we discuss branding. If you aren’t familiar, branding is the feeling customers get when they associate with your business. In order to attract the right ideal puppy buyers and build trust with them, you want...

#41 – My 3 Biggest Regrets in Dog Breeding

#41 – My 3 Biggest Regrets in Dog Breeding

We all have regrets. Times in our lives when we made decisions with limited knowledge or impulsively. Times in our lives where if we have only known a little more, we could’ve saved ourselves a lot of pain and suffering. I recently heard that pain is the thing that...

#27 – Planning Your Year of Dog Breeding

#27 – Planning Your Year of Dog Breeding

Most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. Building a dog breeding business takes time, but it can be done more efficiently-not necessarily more quickly-by planning it out and chipping away at it a little bit each...

#24 – The 3 Reasons Dog Breeders Breed

#24 – The 3 Reasons Dog Breeders Breed

When you breed dogs, people often ask you why you breed, it’s sort of funny, people don’t usually ask farmers why they are farmers, nor do they ask engineers why they are engineers. Yet, people always want to know why breeders breed. I think some of this comes from...