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How to manage In heat dog indoors?
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We at Chaz do not support or condone needless mix breeding of pet dogs while COUNTLESS pet dogs die in shelters every day.
My advice is to get a dog and spay her. If you don't want to spay her, be responsible and supervise her constantly when she's in heat (or contain her safely). If you don't want to spay her AND you want to breed her, buy a show quality puppy from a breeder who health tests, shows, works and temperament tests their dogs, sells dogs on a contract, and makes you jump through hoops to prove that you have no intentions of mix breeding, breeding her to an unproven male, breeding her before proving her conformation and health, or selling puppies to anyone less than an excellent owner. First you will need to train her in obedience and conformation, spend time and money exhibiting her in shows and prove that she is a superb example of the breed, wait until she's at least 2 years old to health test her (and Cockers have many health and temperament issues in the breed that she will need to be cleared of), make connections with people in the breed and people who are interested in your bitch's puppies... THEN find a stud who compliments her and who has also been finished in shows & health tested. Then pay a hefty stud fee. Then save up lots of money for the possibility of a c-section or other complications, as well as prenatal care, puppy check-ups, puppy shots and puppy evaluations (to determine if they are show or pet quality). You will also be spending much of your free time, if not all of it, caring for the puppies, socializing the puppies, feeding them and possibly bottle feeding them around the clock, talking to potential buyers and screening their references/Vets, writing up contracts to be sure that the people who buy your puppies are going to spay/neuter pet puppies, responsibly show and breed show quality puppies, and to be positive that your puppies do not end up in shelters.
My advice is to get a dog and spay her. If you don't want to spay her, be responsible and supervise her constantly when she's in heat (or contain her safely). If you don't want to spay her AND you want to breed her, buy a show quality puppy from a breeder who health tests, shows, works and temperament tests their dogs, sells dogs on a contract, and makes you jump through hoops to prove that you have no intentions of mix breeding, breeding her to an unproven male, breeding her before proving her conformation and health, or selling puppies to anyone less than an excellent owner. First you will need to train her in obedience and conformation, spend time and money exhibiting her in shows and prove that she is a superb example of the breed, wait until she's at least 2 years old to health test her (and Cockers have many health and temperament issues in the breed that she will need to be cleared of), make connections with people in the breed and people who are interested in your bitch's puppies... THEN find a stud who compliments her and who has also been finished in shows & health tested. Then pay a hefty stud fee. Then save up lots of money for the possibility of a c-section or other complications, as well as prenatal care, puppy check-ups, puppy shots and puppy evaluations (to determine if they are show or pet quality). You will also be spending much of your free time, if not all of it, caring for the puppies, socializing the puppies, feeding them and possibly bottle feeding them around the clock, talking to potential buyers and screening their references/Vets, writing up contracts to be sure that the people who buy your puppies are going to spay/neuter pet puppies, responsibly show and breed show quality puppies, and to be positive that your puppies do not end up in shelters.
First off, no breeder anyone should be buying from is going to sell you a "nice dog" without a spay/neuter contract.
Rescues require spay/neuter.
Purposely breeding "cute mutts" when, as has already been said, there are countless numbers of the same kinds of dogs languishing and dying in shelters is . . . well, mildly put, absolutely thoughtless at best; heartless if one stops and thinks about that fact and does it anyway. No one who would make that choice after being cognizant of that can possibly be considered to be someone who cares about dogs.
Good breeders breed for the betterment of their chosen breed, not for money or for sh1ts and giggles.
Rescues require spay/neuter.
Purposely breeding "cute mutts" when, as has already been said, there are countless numbers of the same kinds of dogs languishing and dying in shelters is . . . well, mildly put, absolutely thoughtless at best; heartless if one stops and thinks about that fact and does it anyway. No one who would make that choice after being cognizant of that can possibly be considered to be someone who cares about dogs.
Good breeders breed for the betterment of their chosen breed, not for money or for sh1ts and giggles.
If you live in an apartment, you should not be thinking about get ANY bitch to breed for any reason.
Seriously, have you ever seen the whelping mess? Smelled it? Do you know how much poop a litter of 9 puppies produces in a single day? I'm willing to be your housing manager would not be okay with it, regardless of whether you are breeding an AKC champion cocker spaniel that won Crufts dog show and had field and agility titles up the wazoo, or cute pet mutts. Apartments are not an appropriate place to whelp puppies and raise a litter.
Seriously, have you ever seen the whelping mess? Smelled it? Do you know how much poop a litter of 9 puppies produces in a single day? I'm willing to be your housing manager would not be okay with it, regardless of whether you are breeding an AKC champion cocker spaniel that won Crufts dog show and had field and agility titles up the wazoo, or cute pet mutts. Apartments are not an appropriate place to whelp puppies and raise a litter.
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Thanks for all the advice but let me tell you a little about pets in Pakistan, they are rarely if ever abandonned, you never find an imported breed or its crossbred mutt ever on the roads or in shelters waiting to be put to sleep, there are no temprament concerns, health issues are dealth with as they come, pets are bred for no other purpose then being pets or in some cases guard dogs, sniffers in rescue or related work and for hunting.
The only animals that are mutts, mongerals, strays on roads are local short haird cats and dogs which resemble dalmations in solid colours or skinny labs and are rarely if ever kept as pets, they are naturally wild and free only people from western influenced lifestyle are suddenly labelling them as adoptable or worthy of shelter, though cats are more popular as pets from amongst these, I too have fostered some.
There are no kennels or shelters as such like I said imported dogs and cats their crossbred mutts are never abandonned they are sold off or given for adoption via classifieds and are taken by some one eventually, unwanted pets are never ever put to sleep, the likes of popular breeds here, persians, siamase, labs, dalmations, german sheps, rotts, dobermans or their crosses etc as strays would be picked up and sold or adopted immediately by even the most uneducated person here they seem to be aware of uniqueness of foreign breeds.
So no issues that you face in the west, except for discerning breeders who want improved stock for whatever reason and that too is limited to german sheperd, rotts and labs no one is interested in other types for proper breeding.
Finding an abandonned cockerpoo most likely a case of lost, stolen or runaway pet, let alone a pure cocker here would be like discovering gold, it would be either adopted or sold for a profit, in anycase it would find a home no matter what.
The only animals that are mutts, mongerals, strays on roads are local short haird cats and dogs which resemble dalmations in solid colours or skinny labs and are rarely if ever kept as pets, they are naturally wild and free only people from western influenced lifestyle are suddenly labelling them as adoptable or worthy of shelter, though cats are more popular as pets from amongst these, I too have fostered some.
There are no kennels or shelters as such like I said imported dogs and cats their crossbred mutts are never abandonned they are sold off or given for adoption via classifieds and are taken by some one eventually, unwanted pets are never ever put to sleep, the likes of popular breeds here, persians, siamase, labs, dalmations, german sheps, rotts, dobermans or their crosses etc as strays would be picked up and sold or adopted immediately by even the most uneducated person here they seem to be aware of uniqueness of foreign breeds.
So no issues that you face in the west, except for discerning breeders who want improved stock for whatever reason and that too is limited to german sheperd, rotts and labs no one is interested in other types for proper breeding.
Finding an abandonned cockerpoo most likely a case of lost, stolen or runaway pet, let alone a pure cocker here would be like discovering gold, it would be either adopted or sold for a profit, in anycase it would find a home no matter what.
If all that is true, Pakistan must have found a quick way to deal with the stray problem since 2006 Stray Dog Management | Pakistan Animal Welfare Society
How does that contradict what pups r cute said? Developing countries have stray (I think a better term is probably "feral") dogs... I don't think anyone disputed this.
When we breed purebred dogs over here, we say that yes, there are shelter mutts, but there are people are looking for a dog with specific traits. Which is all the OP is saying.
I have no doubt that they're telling the truth when they say that you don't find stray cockapoos.
To the OP, I would say that you should still be discerning about the health of the dogs you choose, and if it is available to you, you should health test the parents. Take pride in the animals you sell. You can buy panties to put on females when they come into heat to keep the mess down.
I agree with whoever said that dog breeding is probably not something you want to do in an apartment lol. The thought scares me lol. IMO you should wait till you have some sort of a yard before breeding.
When we breed purebred dogs over here, we say that yes, there are shelter mutts, but there are people are looking for a dog with specific traits. Which is all the OP is saying.
I have no doubt that they're telling the truth when they say that you don't find stray cockapoos.
To the OP, I would say that you should still be discerning about the health of the dogs you choose, and if it is available to you, you should health test the parents. Take pride in the animals you sell. You can buy panties to put on females when they come into heat to keep the mess down.
I agree with whoever said that dog breeding is probably not something you want to do in an apartment lol. The thought scares me lol. IMO you should wait till you have some sort of a yard before breeding.
That is sickening Renee. Just horrific!
Stray dogs/feral dogs HAVE been abandoned by someone, somewhere down the line in their background, either way back or more recently. Breeding more mixed breed dogs before taking care of the feral dogs' needs is just sad. Being feral, having to forage for megar hand outs, wandering around streets is no way for a once domestic dog to live, even if it's dogs that were born into this life and not just his forbearers. These aren't wild dogs. They're feral. They're often sickly, carry rabies and are just barely making it a lot of the time. So, to say there aren't shelters and that equates with not having a problem is just wrong.
I am not feeling a good feeling about your idea of breeding mixed breed dogs in your specific situation.
I am not feeling a good feeling about your idea of breeding mixed breed dogs in your specific situation.
Exactly, the feral dogs are in such good shape there that our soldiers over in Afghanistan/Iraq adopt strays and such to feed while they're over there, some have even brought them back to the US.
So rather than being in a shelter being fed then put to sleep, they're out roaming and starving to death, dying of disease or injury - sounds a whole lot better to me
So rather than being in a shelter being fed then put to sleep, they're out roaming and starving to death, dying of disease or injury - sounds a whole lot better to me