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Coplins — Ragdog Breeding guide (updated)
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Top left puppies drawn by AkaKennels .Ragdog terrier breed standard
The uses of the ragdog terrier .
The Ragdog Registry .
The breeder's guide .
---Ragdog Developer License .
The ragdog breed is founded by (C) Coplins
The Ragdog Terrier breed may be used both for roleplaying and DARPG purposes. But if you wish to alter a ragdog in a fantasy fashion (having magic abillities or unrealistic colours) you need to get permission from Coplins first. All Ragdogs must be registered at the The Ragdog Registry . If you wish to own a ragdog terrier - contact The Ragdog Registry or Coplins to buy a custom import, obtain a draw-to-adopt or inquire about the possibillities to design your own import.
IMPORTANT NOTE!!!
Due to earlier confusion - in this case a cull is a dog that is too far off from breed standard for the average DARPG-breeder to use. The ragdog terrier is a very healthy breed and culling is merely a cosmetical process. The cull does not have to be spayed or neutered but if you wish to breed a cull you must apply for a breed developer license. In other case culls are kept as working dogs or kept purely as pets or RP-characters. A culled ragdog should NEVER be killed! If that is how you’d conduct your breeding you should not breed any dogs that might risk getting non-perfect pups. There is lots of room for non-culled individual differences in the breed as this guide describes. Even if you are not playing darpg in a way that would get you puppies that needs to be culled this guide also can be used as a guide for what kind of personal quirks and difference in built you can draw on your ragdogs. I hope that clears any confusion up.
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you own or work for a kennel and you don't know what 'cull' means? after an animal is culled, i'd imagine what you choose to do with it is your business. i don't advocate killing pups or dogs that fail to meet the acceptable standard, but i know there are breeders that do. if you're breeding for breeding's purpose, why would you keep a non-acceptable animal around? for comparison purposes, maybe? i think you have to be pretty hard core dedicated to breeding to do what's best for the breed. i don't like the idea of turning off compassion just to save a pup that doesn't make the minimum standard.
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I realize that "cull" can mean "animal mean for slaughter" however I've never come across the use of cull in that sense among the real life breeders of dogs horses and mice that I have met or know. For them and me the word "cull" simply mean an animal that is not going to be used as a show/breeding animal but rather go to a pet home. And possibly there are breeders that put down dogs that are not super perfect but that is not common practise here in Sweden. Besides, there's too much money to be made selling dogs irl - even culls - to kill heathy puppies due to cosmetic faults. We have larger problems with smuggled dog than we have with breeders killing unwanted puppies. (but then again -we do not have the same problem with puppy mills as you do in the states) The ragdog terrier is supposed to be a newly created breed that have a generally larger number of dogs that may not fit the breed standard. These dogs are of course healthy and great dogs but should be removed from breeding as purebreds unless the breeder has a breed developer license.
The question of why keep a non-conformity animal around is absurd to me! Because the sheer awesomeness of the individual of course!
Now as for this guide - from the beginning the design of the ragdog and the breeding guidelines was extremely complicated. Just like this guide. Now to make this breed possible to own and breed for darpg-ers that is not as interested in complicated breeding and picking out in-perfect dogs with special characteristics, get them titled either both in conformation and working titles, or if they were culls only in working titles and pair them up with carefully selected partner to get maybe 1-2 perfect pups in a litter of six. This is not for all. Most just want to breed perfect to perfect and get perfect. But for those like me who enjoy the thought of planning generations ahead, setting complicated goals for the breeding and may wish to experience by bringing new blood to the breed - this guide is a must.
This also serves as a guide on how to draw a ragdog and how great individual differences you can draw without being worried about drawing it incorrecly.
I'm glad you brought this up however. I didn't realize there might be ppl out there that would even consider a cull an animal to kill off as these are not livestock. Considering that even amongs the really hardcore pedigree breeders irl only one or two pups in a litter will be chosen as a possible brood-animal to enter conformity shows to begin with. Here in darpg it's about 100% of a litter normally. I have updated both the picture and the text below now to explain how I mean by cull so noone thinks they should go around killing off perfectly awesome companions.
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Question do you mean cull as in remove from breeding permanently or fix and become pet
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A cull in the ragdog sense are dog's that does not meet the breed standard. It cannot enter conformation shows but any working type of competitions. Either they can be used as pets, working dogs or role playing characters. Since the ragdogs is a very healthy breed the culling is supposedly mainly cosmetical. Therefor there is no need to spay of neuter. If one wishes to breed a cull one has to apply for a breed developer license. This is to keep some control and track of what happens to individual ragdogs. I do not prohibit mixbreeding as many with created breeds do. This is because the ragdog is supposed to be a new breed still under development. But as soon as you mixbreed you may get very varying results. Like this photo for an instance - these two are siblings from the same litter - migrated.ifokus.se/uploads/9c2…
I updated the picture and text now to avoid confusion.
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