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First, if you have looked at the typical threads on this forum and if you've been involved in the show world in other breeds; it should be pretty obvious this is not exactly the best resource for answers to the type of questions you are asking. ShowDogs-L and ShowPem-L would much better serve your needs.
Having said that and to answer your co-ownership questions in your other post; nothing unusual about that offer at all, especially when one is a novice in the breed.
On breeding a vWD carrier, well evidently this breeder is breeding them or the puppy available wouldn't be a carrier. On the one hand I wouldn't necessarily make the leap that the puppy you've been offered is intended for breeding. The breeder may be seeing it as an opportunity for you as a novice to get your feet wet with a nice puppy and prove yourself. The breeder may want his championship to go towards one of his parent's ROM's for example.
With an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance and carriers not being affected/no health risk; hypothetically and in theory including vWD carriers in a breeding program can be responsibly managed. However, from discussions on the breed show list, vWD does not seem to be as cut and dry/black and white as some other traits with the same mode of inheritance as far as carriers being affected. The more common position in the breed (US wise at least) is to avoid including carriers in a breeding program. Without knowing specifics, I can only speculate as to the breeder's intentions of this particular puppy as far as breeding goes and as I said, he/she may be offering him as a means for you to break into the breed, not necessarily to be included in a breeding program.
Debbie
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