Call Name Papillon Breeder Owner Navèah Crisanda Total Eclipse Of The Heart Vickie Ehrlekrona Vickie Ehrlekrona

 

Dogs that may be shown in 2011.

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Will We Leave Our Breed In Good Hands? ©Vickie Ehrlekrona Crisanda As taboo as it may be to "discuss" this topic I feel in my heart the need to make sense of the irrational thought processes of some so called "responsible" breeders! I recently heard that a top breeder placed in her will that all her Papillons (60 plus champion Papillons)are to be destroyed when she dies. I was stunned and sickened when I heard this and this left me to ponder how any breeder can see this as a "good thing" for the breed they claim to love, or how a breeder can rationalize this to be a sane act? Can someone please explain to me how euthanizing 30 years of hard work in a breeding program, or how wiping out generation after generation of future Papillon champions can be considered beneficial to the breed? Do you think breeder Patricia Trotter Craig of Vin-Melca Norwegian Elkhound fame is going to kill, or spay and neuter all of her dogs so that no one else can breed them after she is gone? It's highly unlikely she'll euthanize a lifetime of hard work, and I would bet that she has already mentored and entrusted a large percentage of her pedigrees and dogs to others. How can a breeder who claims to be a responsible breeder lose such focus and vision to the extent that they are willing to destroy sixty beautiful Papillons simply because they don't want to share their hard work, dogs or pedigrees with others after they are dead! Is this the act of an ambassador? Not in my book. A breeder should have a vision that goes beyond today, and that projects far beyond their own morality. A breeder should do no harm. How can this be seen as loving the breed? It's nothing less than genocide in my books, and if true, this breeder is not an ambassador of our breed, rather a breeder who has lost focus and has reckless disregard for the breed as a whole. How can a top Papillon breeder become so hardened to 60 precious lives, and be so vain to think her dogs must die when she dies? It is obvious to me that her dogs are no more than mere objects to her and an extension of an over inflated, narcissistic ego. In my humble opinion, top breeder or not, she should have stopped breeding years ago if this is the goal she has for 60 dogs that will faithfully love her at the end of her life. What a legacy to leave.... A responsible breeder is a visionary, not an executioner. Somewhere along the way the torch must be passed to a new generation of Papillon breeders. The responsibility of a good breeder should not only be to breed the best dogs they can while they are here, but to commit to selectively placing their pets on spay/neuters contracts, in addition to being obligated to breed beyond their titles, records, pedigrees and egos. Foremost we should be educators and mentors, and if we feel we can not improve our breed in the least we should do no harm to the breed. If we wipe out beautiful lines of Papillons in death how is this helping the future of our breed? I am not advocating for dumping 60 Papillons on the market for breeding instead I'm suggesting a more proactive approach such as mentoring, educating, and taking newcomers under wing that may have the ability to be mentored into the future top breeders of tomorrow. If we don't take a proactive approach and take the time to teach them today then we will have no one to pass our beautiful dogs and pedigrees on to tomorrow. If the torch must be passed then why not ensure the integrity of your hard work and pedigrees by mentoring and educating a newcomer and choosing who will best preserve your vision and lines. We all know how hard it is to get a good start, with good lines, and good foundation dogs, so helping others who may want to carry this breed forward into the future should be something every Papillon breeder nurtures and explores with a newcomer. When we are no longer breeding who will become the breed's next ambassadors? Who will step forward to become the next top breeders of tomorrow? How will we know them if we fail to recognize them as the beginners of today. Who will carry on after us if we remain rigid and selfish and fail to educate? If we are not willing to share and teach them then who will? Who will make them the breeders of the great Papillons of tomorrow? The backyard breeders? Who really is hurting our the breed? Who really is helping our breed? Are they one in the same? We must ask ourselves the question, have we made a concerted effort to prepare our breed for the next generations? Have we done our part to teach them what it really takes to breed a good Papillon, or are we saving those pedigrees for our egos today? In calling ourselves "responsible" breeders have we become reckless with our lovely breed's future by failing to participate or assist in a joint effort to preserve safe harbors for our breed tomorrow? Have we lost sight of our purpose? Have we lost our vision? Have we lost our way? Did we truly love our breed as we claimed only to fall short of the goal of leaving the breed in the best hands we could? Have we done our part as responsible breeders to promote and preserve the breed we loved long after we are gone? Will our legacy be the beautiful dogs and pedigrees we leave behind for new breeders to continue with our vision; ulitmately going beyond our own mortality? Or will our legacy be all the lost potential, knowledge, advancement, and hard work from years gone by when we take pride in deciding to euthanize 60 lovely dogs before we die so that others can't use them? Is this to be our legacy? If so, count me out because my goal is not to breed beautiful dogs just to euthanize them. My vision is obviously far different than this top breeder. Mine is not based on numbers of dogs, champion titles, ribbons or ego, rather that of dedication, committmemt, faith, optimism,and preservation. My goal has never been death, but life. The responsibility of this lovely breed falls on our shoulders today, not tomorrow. How our lovely breed unfolds throughout future generations will ultimately decide if we did our part as "responsible" ambassadors of the breed today. Once again I ask....if not in our hands, who's hands?