Listen, sweethearts.
I've already had the discussion with the shelter rep about spaying BabyGirl when the pups are weaned. I will. She looks as if she's just been kept around as a breeding machine and BabyGirl definitely does not need to have any more babies.
Jaws is still scheduled for his neutering next month. The shelter knows this and I am planning to go ahead and get him neutered.
By rights, I adopted only Jaws and BabyGirl. I didn't sign any papers neither was I instructed to speuter all of the pups. The shelter's concern was that BabyGirl had a safe place to have her pups. The pups are mine, legally ethically and morally. I will do the right thing with them----and that is MY right thing, not the right thing of a bunch of Chazhounds who are in no way involved besides looking at a few pictures.
The shelter didn't even see Zoey the rottweiler, simply because the shelter did not have any safe place for her and the pups. I was notified with the hopes that I could take them in, which I did. They, too, are legally, morally, and ethically mine, not the property of Chazhounds. Zoey should never have been bred, she is not even decent conformation for a Rottie, and she will be spayed when the pups are weaned.
The pups will all be dewormed and vaccinated and sold at relatively low prices, or if some wish to call it an adoption fee, so be it. No one can force new owners to speuter dogs, because of property rights. The pups become the property of the new owner and become under the new owners' control, they do not stay in my control. I can, and probably will, take in a refundable speuter deposit when placing the pups, but I wll not keep the pups until the proper age of speutering and pay the costs myself. We are now talking about a total of 17 pups here, not just the 10 pitties.
The best thing for the pups will be to find them homes at the appropriate age where they can receive one on one attention and proper socialization from their new owners----not to wait until they are half grown and have become just a large pack of dogs. There is no way I could properly care for that many dogs, or give them the proper socialization to become good doggie citizens.
So let it be written, so let it be done.