How to start ,manage and promote a kennel club.

How to start ,manage and promote a kennel club. Being a breeder means spending 95% of your time doing the dirt so you can enjoy the 5% of exciting activities with your dogs. Cleaning, licensing, accounting, promoting, outreaching, and so many more chores. The best way to grow as a dog breeder is to build valuable and long-lasting relationships with various personalities linked to your breed, or to the dog world in general. Prepare a spreadsheet and make a list of the people you must connect with. This list should include a variety of: 1)Breeders — local, national and even abroad; of your breed but also others. 2)Judges — contact your breed club(s) to get the emails of judges. 3)Online communities — join Facebook Groups and message boards. 4)Pet brands — organic dog food, toys, chews. 5) Influencers — Instagram dog profiles and so on. Having a special relationship with breeders and judges specialized in your breed will help you understand the trends and the future of your breed. Obviously, networking with other breeders means finding new external blood easily, as well as potential buyers for your next litters.The last thing you want to be is a solo breeder who just posts ads when a litter is on the way. From licensing and cleaning to health and safety — this is the daily routine.Owning a dog as a pet is easy; you don’t need to understand canine genetics or have to be extra cautious about picking the right dam or stud. When wanting to start your own kennel, things become more of a challenge. Each choice will impact your bloodline’s future, and potentially, your kennel’s reputation. Dog breeders must get licensed if they have more than X breeding dogs at the same time.A virus or bacterial contamination can ruin years of hard work, so you must have a precise cleaning schedule and use the best kennel disinfectants out there that will be gentle on your dogs and environment, but tough on viruses and bacteria. Having a kennel often means handling chemicals and building specific areas for the dogs to enjoy themselves (xpens, runs, whelping boxes) which puts you at risk, so make sure you follow the basic health and safety rules. Whether your dog breeding activity is taxable or not depends on how you are run it it and how much profit you are generating, if any. It also depends on the timeshare dog breeding is taking from your daily activities. When deciding on the price for each of your puppies in a litter. The principle is simple but tedious: sum up all expenses related to your litter and kennel, divide them by the number of puppies in the litter, and work around that starting price.