Do you want to breed your dog?

The basis for this is taken from one of the Swedish Polar Dog Club's breeding strategys. 

Before you decide to get a litter of puppies on your bitch or to lend your male dog for breeding, you should ask yourself the question why? And remember that you always have a responsibility for the breed when you mate two dogs. Consider the following:

• Study the breed, its history/origin, personality and all parts of its breed standard? 
• Have you studied a large number of historical images from the time when the breed was established in the western world to gain an understanding of what a correct breed type is?
  
• Have you studied the basics of genetics and breeding?
  
• Is my dog ​​a breeding dog? 
• Even if I love my dog ​​as an individual, am I able to look at it objectively? Both its flaws and merits? 
• What will my dog ​​bring to the breed based on the breed-specific characteristics? 
• Does my dog ​​have characteristics that represent all the characteristics of the breed that the breed standard asks for? If not, what exactly is my dog ​​missing? And does my dog ​​compensate for its shortcomings with other valuable characteristics that the breed needs? 
• Is my dog ​​tested in practical use in the harness over time and in competition against others within the breed? How did it go? 
• Contributes my dog ​​with good qualities that benefit all the uses as the breed standard asking for, present and historical? 
• Is my dog ​​health-checked according to the breed club's recommendations? 
• Is the mental part of my dog ​​in line with the breed standard's requirements for mental characteristics and  the requirements today's society put on our dogs? Usage characteristics? Are there fears? Fears are hereditary. 
• Can I take responsibility for the puppies my dog ​​will leave to future puppy buyers? 
• Can I say to future puppy buyers that I have done what is expected of me as a breeder and that I hope that the puppies will be healthy, nice and live up to all the qualities that the breed standard asks for? 
• Also think about what you know about the dogs in the pedigree, preferably as many lines as possible. Will it be any duplications of individuals in the imagined combination, learn at least about 6 led pedigree? If so, what does it mean to duplicate that particular individual? What characteristics or health problems are you at risk of duplicating?
• What will your combination add to the breed genetically? Have you checked whether similar combinations have already been made? Have you talked to your fellow breeders about how you can collectively work together to keep genetic variation as wide as possible within the working part of the breed population? Will other breeders with the same breeding goals benefit from these puppies in future breeding to preserve the breed?
  
• Have you ensured that you are not contributing to the overexploitation of single individuals so that we have a hard time making unrelated combinations in the future?
  
• Do you have knowledge of how your intended breeding dogs have affected the population, have you, for example, checked the grandchild statistics so that one and the same individual is not in too large a part of the population?