i'd be extremely cautious! look up mach1girl to here some stories about how things can go wrong
Lol, no really, LOL! Why, I think I have reached "poster girl" and somehow am always elected to give advice on breeding/about breeding!
This is ok though, because I DONT RECOMMEND IT!
ANYTHING can, and most likely will go wrong, especially if you are new at breeding. Something is going to go unexpected, something will, and no matter how prepared you are, sometimes you just cannot help it, and in the end, you wish with all your heart you could just take back what has happened, then you wouldn't have caused such a mess!
I had a litter of pups,(a big thanks goes out to all the chaz members who assisted me through the whelping process***Kudos***) These guys must have sat up all night online helping me. Seriously, it was dramatic, maybe you can look it up!
For a start, Dixie started having her pups in the middle of the night, her x ray said she had 5, and I fell aslepp next to her on the floor after the 5th one came, sometime towards morning. When I awoke, there were 8!
Second, the mess, everywhere. Her maiden litter, she was rough, and a constant eye had to be kept on her for fear of licking the pups literally to death, laying on them, squishing them, smothering them, breaking them, moving them, her bleeding, etc.
Third the trip to the vet-Dixie up in arms because her babies are in a basket being handled by a strange vet, her bleeding discharge in the car, on the floor, skinny, nasty looking, then, the risk that you pick up something to bring into your home to contaminate your puppies with-SUCH as DISTEMPER!
Fourth-One puppy dies due to asperating milk, fine before I went to take a shower, afterwards, he's dead, vet says he must have been laying wrong while nursing-------makes you cry, wonder if he suffered, like pnuemonia, poor thing!
Fifth~Daizy starts trembling, so bad she trembles across the floor. Her body twists constantly into un natural positions, she acts happy, but is clearly not right~ SHE has contracted distemper and trembles as every brain cell that controls her motor skills is destroyed...slowly. Put her down??Are you kidding? I am so attached, she is now almost 1 and still stumbling like a drunk,greedy of me? Maybe, but she is not in pain, thanks to THOUSANDS of DOLLARS in diagnosis over the past year!
sixth-The smell, the poo, the pee, Momma dont clean it up anymore. Cage needs mopped 10 times a day. Buying hundreds of dollars of newspaper to put down. meanwhile
Dixie looks like she is starving to DEATH because of her nursing. Which by the way, the pups teeth have broke thru at 3 weeks old and have to be fed mush, made in a blender off and on all day and night, by had.............
She is also bleeding alot on her nipples and is at risk for mastitus....
Should I really go on??? I can skip to the part when you hve to part with the pups....I parted with 4. But trust me, I wouldn't have if I had the room then that I do now. I still cry when I look at their baby pics, or celebrate milestones with them, or get emails. I kept 3, one with a disability from the Chorea, one with an overbite from hell and a giant one.
We train, that costs money. We go thru 50 lbs of dog food a week, Chocy trains for UKC sanctioned events, Daizy used to train for therapy dog, and will start again soon, and Cato, well, not the brightest crayon in the box, he is just there.
And our main"baby" whm we loved more then almost each other, Dixie, just doesnt get as much attention as she used to anymore.
She didnt ask for any of this....none of them did, yet they will pay somehow forever..
This should be a sticky....
Dont breed, at least dont do it until you have learned everything there is to know, problems, etc. All the good along with the bad....... And that takes time, even years. Are you prepared to keep all of them if necessary? Are you willing to change your entire life just for a few puppies? Are you prepared to take away from the main momma to give to others? Are you prepared??? really, are you?
Yeah, thought I was too.