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01-23-2009, 09:43 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: London, Ontario, canada
Posts: 518
| How, Why, When? Hi, I am curious as to why you all started breeding, how you prepared, and how long have you been doing it for? Kate |
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01-23-2009, 12:35 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southeast Texas
Posts: 7,959
| I have been an animal lover all my life, I am 60 years old. Over the years I had several different breeds and I also got involved in showing. It was 12 years ago that I started raising Yorkies and I fell in love with the breed. I got my first Yorkie from a friend of mine that was raising yorkies. Yorkies are in a league of their own. I guess a lot of what I have learned has just been from hands on experience. I did not have a mentor and of course YT was not around back then. I have leaned much over the years and since I am trying to get back into showing and breeding show quality dogs there is much more to learn. |
01-23-2009, 06:00 PM | #3 |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
Posts: 14,776
| Always wanted a yorkie, hubby gave me one for our 25th Anniversary. A year later I adopted a 2nd one. But, I wanted to learn more....joined a breed club just to learn more about the yorkie. Started going to shows, got bit by the show bug, started researching lines and breeders. It just so happened that the type yorkie I liked was from a well known breeder in the yorkie club I belonged to. I approached her for a show dog......she watched me for a about a year and half before she let me have my first show dog. I traveled with her then handler (he showed my girl for me) and her for a year, to learn how to groom, handle and present a dog before she allowed me into the ring. I finished 3 Champions before she allowed me to breed and go near a whelping box. In other words she mentored me, she is still my mentor, my best friend and adopted mother. I then became her handler.
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01-25-2009, 05:51 AM | #4 | |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: London, Ontario, canada
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That is such a good story! How many yorkies do you have now and how many litters have you had? How did you research lines? | |
01-25-2009, 07:44 PM | #5 |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
Posts: 14,776
| I've only bred a few litters, at the most 1 or 2 litters a year and skipping some years. Planning the breeding takes a bit of time and work, the actual breeding is not difficult, it's the whelping, post whelping that is the hard work. Studying pedigrees and lines takes a bit of time. Mostely investigation, using AKC records, asking alot of questions, etc.
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