having had a stud enquiry just now the lady is insistant her bitch needs at least a 40 min tie for pups - to which i tried to explain i cant garentee aything.... she said " but thats the dogs job" and we went from there- i told her to call else where!!!
this got me thinking and actually the shortest ties here seem to produce us puppies, and rumour has it a fellow breeder wont let there dogs tie ever....
our longest ever tie was 1h and 4mins .... this produced NO puppies , yet a bitch who basically refused stud a while back and poor diesel only had a couple mins before the bitch stepped up her anger produced 9 pups.....
any thoughts