So You Want To Be A Breeder?

[Christi]

SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREEDER?. - breeding the female.

So you want to breed your female. You know what to expect if everything goes
right. Your little girl will present you with tiny bundles of joy. She will
lovingly nurse them and care for them until they are old enough to be weaned.
You and your family will find great joy in watching and playing with these
little dolls, and then when the time is right they will all (or maybe you keep
just one) go off to special homes to live out their lives as cherished
companions. But have you given consideration to what if somthing goes wrong? I
have listed here a few of the problems that I myself have personal knoledge
of. Everything listed has happened either to me or someone I know. These are
not isolated incidents. I'm sure other breeders could add miles to my list.
Learn by others mistakes!. Let the breeding up to those who know what they
are doing, have the experience, know what to expect.

What if during the breeding............

1) The stud dog you have chosen is carrying a venereal disease and gives it to
your female. She not only dosen't concieve but you have to pay the vet bills
to get her infection cleared up and she is now sterile.

2) The stud dog you decided to breed your darling to is not experienced. Once
the two dogs are joined tightly in a tie, he decides to chase the neighbors
cat out of his yard. He bolts for the cat ripping his penis loose and causing
your ***** to hemorrhage from within.

3) Your modest girl decides she dosen't want the attentions of this gigalo
mutt chosen for her without her consent. She snaps at him catching her tooth
on his loose cheek and rips it open sending blood flying everywhere. He
retaliates by sinking his teeth into her left eye.

4) You leave your dog with the stud owner becouse the breeding is not going
very swiftly. In fact , it's been three hours and nothing is happening. The
stud owners leave the two dogs alone in the back yard. The dogs get out
through a tiny hole in the fence and a truck hits your female.

5) You pay the $250-$1,000 stud fee up front figuring you will make that and
more back when the pups sell. The breeder guarentees the stud service to work
or you can come back again. After 2 months you discover it didn't work and now
must wait another 4 months to try again. Of course it dosen't work again, so
in another 4 months you take your dog to another male and risk loosing another
stud fee.

6) You get her bred. Bring her home. She bothers you so you let her out ( she
is still in heat and still receptive to males). You here a commotion outside
there is your girl tied up with the neighborhood mutt. when she welps there
will need to be DNA tests done on the pups.

7) You get her bred. bring her home . let her out. ( She is still in heat and
receptive to other males) but you do not see the neighborhood mutt breed her.
The pups are born but look odd. You call the stud owner he sugests DNA testing
( At your expense). You have a litter of mutts!.
what do you do about the ones you have already sold?.

8) Or knowing she tied with the neighborhood mut you decide to terminate the
pregnancy and try again being more carefull next time. But a few weeks later
your female is very sick becouse you had her given a miss-mate shot creating a
harmonel imbalance causing a uturin infection and now she has Pyometra and
needs a complete historectomy. All planes of getting a litter is gone and your
females life is now in danger if she dose not hfve the operation.

What if durring the birth..............

1) The puppies are too large for the femaleships. She never goes into labor,
the puppies die and she becomes infected by the decaying bodies.

2) The puppies are comming breach and they drown in their own sacks befor they
can be born.

3) The first puppy is large and breach. When it starts coming your female
starts screaming, and before you can stop her she reaches around, grabs the
puppy in her teeth and yanks it out killing it instantly.

4) A puppy gets stuck. Neither your female nor you can get it out. You have to
race her to the vet. The vet can't get it out either. She has to have an
emergency caesarian section of course it is 3:00 am Christmas day.

5) A puppy is coming out breach and dry (the water sack that protects them has
burst). It gets stuck. Moma tries to help it out by clamping her teeth over
one of the back legs. The head and shoulders are firmly caught. Moma pulls on
the leg, hard, peeling the flesh from the leg and leaving a wiggling stump of
bone.

6) A dead puppy gets stuck in the birth canal, but your female is well into
hard labor. She contracts so hard trying to give birth that her uterus
ruptures and she bleeds to death on the way to the vet.

what is directly after birth..........

1) The mother has no idea what to do with a puppy and she drops them out and
walks away, leaving them in the sack to drown.

2) The mother takes one look at the pyppies, decides they are disgusting
droppings and tries to smother them in anything she can find to bury them in.

3) The mother gets too enthusiastic in her removal of the placenta and
umbilical cord, and rips the cord out leaving a gushing hole pulsing blood all
over you as you try in vain to stop the bleeding.

4) Or, she pulls on the cords so hard she disembowels the puppies as they are
born and you have a box full of tiny; kicking babies with a tangle of guts the
size of a walnut hanging from their stomachs. Of course all the babies must be
put to sleep.

5) What if becouse of some harmone deficiency she turns vicious allowing no
one near her or the babies, who she refuses to nurse, or you have yu interfere
with.

6) You notice something protruding from her vagina when you let her out to
pee; you take her to the vet to discover a prolapsed uterus, which needs to
be removed.

What if when you think you are in the clear..................

1) One or more of the puppies inhaled fluid during birth, pneumonia develops
and death occurs within 36 hours.

2) what if the mothers milk goes bad. You lose three of your four puppies
before you discover what is wrong. You end up bottle feeding the remaining pup
every two hours, day and night. After three days the puppy fades from
infection and dies.

3) The puppies develop fading puppy syndrome you lose two. You bottle-feeding
or tube feeding the last remaining baby. It begins to choke and despite your
efforts to clear the airway, the pup stiffens and dies in your hands.

4) Your female develops mastitis and her breast ruptures.

5) Your female develops a uterine infection from a retained placenta. Her
temperature soars to 105. You race her to the vet, he determins she must be
spayed. He dose the spay in an attempt to save her life, you pay the hundreds
of dollars bill. The infection has gone into her blood stream. The infected
milk kills all the puppies and the ***** succombs a day later.

6) All the puppies are fine but following the birth the female develops a
hormone imbalance. She becomes a fear biter and anytime anyone tries to touch
her she visciously attacks them.

7) Mom and pups seem fine, the puppies are four weeks old and are at their
cutiest. but one day one of the puppies disappears. You search everywhere but
you can't find it. A few days later another puppy is gone. And another. You
can't figure how on earth the puppies are getting out of their safe 4' x 4'
puppy pen. Finally there is only one puppy left. The next morning you find the
mother chomping contentedly on what is left of the last murderd puppy.

What if the new homes are not so happy?.......................

1) You give a puppy to a friend. Their fence blows down so they tie the puppy
outside while they go to work. A roving dog comes along and kills the puppy.
Your friend calls you up to tell you about the poor little puppy and asks when
you are having more puppies.

2) You sell a puppy to an acuaintance. The next time you see them you ask how
the puppy is doing. They tell you that it soiled their new carpet so they took
it to the pound

[Christi]

3) You sell a puppy to a friend (you give them a good price and payments).
They make a couple of tiny payments. Six months later they move to an
apartment. They ask you to take it back. You take it back and of course the
payments stop. The dog they returned is so shy, and ill mannerd from lack of
socialization and training it takes you a year of work providing socializing
and training to be able to give it away.

4) You sell a puppy to a woonderful home. They love her like one of the
family. At a vet check done by their vet it is determined that the puppy has a
heart murmer. (Your vet found nothing when he checked the puppy befor it was
sold.) They love their pupy and want the best for her. They have an expensive
surgery done. The puppy is fine. They sue you for the medical costs. They win,
becouse you did not have a contract stipulating conditions of guarentee and so
as breeder you are responsible for the pupp'ys genitic health.

5) You give a puppy to your mother. she is thrilled. Two years later the
puppy starts developing problems. It begins to develop odd symtoms and is
suffering. Hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of tests later it is finally
discovered that the dog is suffering from a terminal condition that was
inherited. possibly from your female since you know nothing obout her family
lines.

6) One loving home decides your puppy is untrainable, destructive and wants to
return the pup and get a full refund, which you have spent on your vet bills.

7) One loving couple calls you and is very upset becouse their pup has
crippling hip displasia and want to know what you are going to do about it.
You have spayed your female so a replacement is out of the question, looks
like another refund.

The Sale:...................

1) You put your ad in the local paper for your pups at the usual price and get
only 2 responses and no sales. You cut the pup's price in half and broaden
your advertising to 3 other newspapers in which the advertising totals $120.00
a week.

2) You get a few more puppy inquiries from people who ask all about health
testing you did before breeding and if the pups are registerd. You tell them
your dogs are healthy and it was enugh and that you could get the papers. The
callers politely thank you and hang up.

3) the pups are now 4 months old and getting bigger , eating alot and their
barking is really beginning to annoy the neighbors who call the police who
inform you of the $150.00 noise by-law.

4) Your neighbors also call the humane society who comes out to inspect the
care of your dogs. You pass inspection but end up feeling stressed and
harassed.

5) You finally decide to give the rest of the litter away but still have to
pay the $1200.oo advertising bill and the $600.oo vet bill.

So you gotta ask yourself: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, "breeder?".

Those of you wanting to stud out your dog I have a list for that also.

Donna Marshall