Q: How to turn dog-training and dog-breeding into a business?

First of all, you must have love for dogs and time to spend to know your dog well.

Specialising is a great advantage, if you want to be known as a good and honest breeder.

To be a specialist trainer, you have to learn from the professionals, so get professional advice on training and breeding.

Do your research before breeding. To breed high pedigree dogs, you must get top quality stock before breeding. Progeny and genetics are very important. Find out about its pedigree blood lines, and its generation in work and the percentage of success.

There is always a demand for trained dogs, but be prepared to breed from the best, with NO compromise. If dogs have defects, do not breed from them; have them spayed, and do not to breed bad stock.