Rubbish!!!!!!!

MAUKAKANE1 wrote:Hog428 I think you stand above most with your approach to selling a dog. Providing the potential buyer with an un-biased opinion of your dogs working trait (personal ego prevents the absolute truth to surface because it is taken as a reflection of the owner.) Coupled with a return or partial return + trade off for younger potential dog, shows that your intention is above the mighty dollar.
Bradda Muns, I know exactly where you and your fathers belief on hunting dogs are coming from. Still going on ova here but notice it is kept more "in da ohana" these days. Seems like everybody and their brother wants some good dogs nowadays and money is the cure for that ill. I wonder. What is the monetary value of getting up at 4 a.m. twice a week, rain or shine for months to intimately train our own dogs for ourselves. Dogs it seems have gone the way of commercial commodities. I give you money, in exchange I give you product. This is the state of the world as it is today and it sickens me that it has crept its way into our tradition.
A knife a rifle a bow, I can sell you these "products" and tell you EXACTLY how it will perform. You take it out and you see that it does exactly as stated and as you the buyer has expected. "Product".

SELLERS- As trainers and handlers of living, breathing, sentient beings can we honestly say that this dog will do this and that 100% of the time in complete absolution. We can give a good portion of the percentage and that is all. understand that this is not a "product" and that it has its own conscience.

BUYERS- As trainers/handlers of living breathing, psychological creatures we should automatically know that there will be a possible degree of variation in what the seller is telling us and to be prepared for it no matter how slight or great the the degree.

In both seller and buyer you will see that they both start off with the same meaning. This I define as true outdoorsman. Hunter. The realization being that these things vary to some degree. They change to some degree.They re-adapt to some degree. They evolve to some degree. Social dynamics as with all living beings is in a free flowing state. Shifting and changeable to some degree.

Reciept in hand, we automatically return to the store if we unwittingly bought a defective item. Straight to warranty if something gets out of whack or needs repair. Demand to take the steak back cuz its well done and we wanted it rare. We want our products to be exactly as stated, any variation in it makes us feel like "your trying to trick me" " I work hard fo dis and you trying to rip me off".

In certain situations you have every right to get the exact product that your hard earned money has paid for.
Most being inanimate products.

Living breathing beings are dynamic and changing to some degree. Are you the same as you were 20 yrs ago?
To some degree yes. To some degree no.

MAUKAKANE1
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