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| Over the past decade many people have gone to various ISSR Licensed Breeders feeling safe and secure, although they were asked to pay them thousands of dollars for a puppy, because they were under the impression that these people were part of my breeding team and were thus following all of the required protocols—NOT NECESSARILY SO!
Unfortunately many of these people joined the ISSR just so that they could get more money for their pups, not because they wanted to be on the pioneering team that was dedicated toward properly expanding our gene pool! However, it does not take long for unjust motives to be exposed, thus forcing these oxymudas to leave the ISSR and attempt to start their own or jump into one of the fake “registries”. I think that the matrix listed below will clearly show these trends! Nevertheless, you must also realize that it is extremely difficult to predict what a particular breeder may – may not—be planning to do in the future. Will they be there for you a few years from now? Regretably, this is not something that any of us can answer! It is up to the consumer to be alert and ask lots of questions! That's why we encourage people to join our Shiloh Shepherd Community Forums. Too much of our gene pool has already been compromised! Too many good dogs have been lost due to their breeder going “haywire”! Just take a look at this Wall of Shame. I hope that the matrix listed below will benefit future owners by discouraging the fly-by-nights from entering our program in the first place! Oh yes, we have always had an LBA! Right from the start potential future breeders were asked to sign it if they wanted to register their dogs with the ISSR! Many refused to do so and stayed with the AKC instead, but others (maybe looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?) jumped in with both feet! Did they bother to even read the agreement? Did they ever intend to honor it? Who knows. Yet they quickly signed up and started selling their pups for thousands of dollars. It did not take me long to figure out that many of them were selling their pet quality pups on co-ownerships with GOLD papers! Ouch!! Once I started investigating all of these cases and tried to work with these breeders to help them to properly evaluate their pups—I realized that I was being tagged as “THE” Super Bitch of the century! Hmmm, instead of trying to breed better dogs--they just wanted to get me out of the picture! Enter the splinter mentality--and the rest is history.
Please note: Although all of the breeders listed
in the charts and the three tables below joined the Breed Founder's VIB/OSSA (Original
Shiloh Shepherd Academy) program to further their education
in preparation for becoming future breeders, many of these people never even
produced a litter. They are, nevertheless, listed because they had, at one
point, signed up for the program. Many additional details are provided in the code chart listed below. Former LB's (color coded in blue) listed as *INACTIVE are still supportive of the ISSR and own/plan to purchase ISSR dogs but have chosen not to breed at this time. Those that have left the ISSR and continue breeding *their* version of "shilohs" within *their own* "registries" or are named on a "splinter" website as a "shiloh" breeder are color coded in brown and listed as splinters. For more details about these people, please visit our Shiloh Fraud, Buyer Beware and Tina Speaks! pages. Table 1
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