[quote=Eyes Of Fire] Sad fact of the matter is, a lot of breeders won't. A lot of breeders will be happy there are more buyers and won't tell them everything... they'll parrot what the article said or what gets the puppies sold. The more popular they get, the worse it will get until we are seeing them in shelters and on banned breeds lists. You know there's a City in Iowa that already has CO's banned BY NAME?! (They have about 100 breeds banned though...)[/quote] I agree with this. Yes a good breeder will be particularily certain that a buyer knows everything they need to, but also, breeders have an agenda. Especially if they are breeding regularly, for more than breed betterment. I believe it is up to the buyer to invest in as much information about the breed they are interested in as possible. Not just contacting one breeder, but finding many resources of information as possible, preferably non biased, and several different points of view. Unfortunately, many skip this or, just focus on the most popular ideas, like the one in this magazine. So what do we do then? It seems like a vicious catch 22. I know MD needs to be bigger! lol. ;)