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02-03-2014, 02:18 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: England
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| Breeding & spaying info and opinions please! Hey all. Have a 7 month old pup, clearly am not considering breeding my baby yet might not even be at all to be honest! So I want to know people's opinion on breeding?? Is it safe? How many pups? & how much does it cost for the bitch to be pregnant etc? Excluding cost from stud fee's. Is it dangerous for my dog in birth? Just want all the info? Won't breed her until she's 18months-2 years most probably but want all the info please . also though spaying? Is their any benefit from it? Dreading the thought of my pup having an op but if I decide not to breed her I probably will get her spayed. Opinions please! |
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02-03-2014, 06:18 AM | #2 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Welcome to Yorkie Talk. Here is a thread in the YT library about breeding to start with: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...t-breeder.html Breeding is labor intensive (hands on for the human), expensive, and carries a lot of risk for the breeding bitch. Potential benefits of spaying: avoiding accidental breeding and things above, and preventing pyrometra, a potentially deadly uterine infection.
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02-03-2014, 10:41 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada
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| My opinion on breeding is that there are more than enough out there, don't need another one. Spaying and neutering, well there are a lot of articles out there at the moment regarding this. Seems it can lead to cushings as the adrenal gland works too hard to produce the sex hormones the body still needs. As well it can lead to an increase in ailments in dogs. A study was recently done regarding the pros and cons. Golden retriever study suggests neutering affects dog health :: UC Davis News & Information |
02-03-2014, 11:48 AM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: federal way, wa,usa
Posts: 28
| these dogs are so tiny...I think it would be an enormous risk to breed one. As for spaying I think there would be more risks in breeding than spaying. Why take the chance? |
02-03-2014, 11:54 AM | #5 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| If you want to breed you will need to go to dog shows to find a mentor and earn there respect this could take a while and hopefully they will help you with getting two excellent examples of the breed to breed as well as ones that come from great backgrounds. The female you have isn't going to work because breeders who have these great lines don't give just anyone breeding rights like your breeder gave you with there dog because they want to protect the lines they have worked very hard for. Breeding the reputable way is absolutely not a way to make money and should only be done by those who want to better the breed. If a female is under 5 pounds it is extremely dangerous for her to have a litter but it still can be very dangerous for any female to be pregnant and whelp especially if the the person breeding doesn't know all the signs of distress and what they are doing. There was one lady on here who's female got pregnant and had to have a c-section and the female would not accept the puppies for a few days so she had to feed the puppies every two hours but she got lucky and the female accepted the pups but sometimes they don't and your stuck feeding the pups every two hours for 7 or 8 weeks which means no sleep for you because you have to be there mom and clean them, feed them, keep them warm and so on. It also is pretty expensive keeping puppies until 12 weeks you have to dock tails, remove dew claws, and shots plus regular vet check ups and so on. You also have to do genetic and health testing that you will have to go to a specialist for. Spaying before there first heat really reduces the risk of mammary cancer even spaying after there first heat reduces it a pretty good amount. Spaying will also keep them from getting certain infections that require immediate operation. Before any one breeds I strongly suggest they go check out there local shelters.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
02-03-2014, 11:56 AM | #6 | |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! | |
02-03-2014, 07:46 PM | #7 |
I ♥ my Cookie Monster! Donating Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: South Texas
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| How big is she and what size is she charting? If she is charting less than 6 pounds or so I think most people here would recommend not breeding her.
__________________ Cookie ;;; RIP Minnie |
02-04-2014, 01:30 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Mesquite, TX
Posts: 2,659
| I can tell you it's cost me almost $4500 for vet care, X-rays, sonograms, emergency c-section, hand feeding pups, tail docking and dew claw removal, checkups, and first shots for my litter of 4. Not to mention the hell my girl went through from her c-section, the pain I could see she was in, and the loss of sleep from worrying about her every move a week before her due date to 4 weeks after the pups were born, hand feeding pups every hour for 40 hours when she didn't want to have anything to do with them, and even now, making sure she and the pups are eating, peeing, pooping, and getting enough calcium, etc. Are you willing to lose your pet?? Have her spayed.
__________________ "You've never learned to live until you've done something for someone for which they can never repay you."~Ralph Hall. |
02-04-2014, 05:00 AM | #9 |
YT 1000 Club Member | I can't give any info on breeding because I haven't done it. I have 2 unaltered pets of each sex and when my female has her heat I have to keep them completely separate. They pretty much don't even see each other for a month. She can't be left outside by herself like in the other 11 months out of the year, can't go for walks, have to worry about her getting blood on my carpets(she's a bigger breed so it will be noticeable), etc. Those are things an owner who has their pet fixed does not have to worry about. I find with any procedure that is unnecessary I'm leery about and I want proven advantages and disadvantages. Please research research research and make sure the research is unbiased ! There are pros and cons to spay and neuter. For me the cons seemed to outweigh the possible benefits. This is not the same for every pet owner. You have to do what you think is best for your pet, but please know that if you don't choose to go through with the procedure you'll definitely have to stay on top of things when she does go into heat if you're not breeding her. Good luck with your decision! |
02-04-2014, 10:19 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Golden retriever/yorkie, the genetics of a dog the makeup internally are pretty standard. It's the medical study results I'm more interested in |
02-04-2014, 10:26 AM | #11 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| Not necessarily there are dog breeds that are more sensitive to certain things then others and because of how long a larger dog grows vs. a smaller dog it does make a difference. I have heard fixing a golden retriever can have negative effects on the breed that other breeds don't have.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
02-04-2014, 11:32 AM | #12 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Arkansas
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After reading a wealth of information provided on YT, I decided to have Barney neutered. It wasn't worth the risk for me. We take him with us when we travel and I don't want him "tempted" by an unaltered female. We didn't fix our oldest dog, Max, and he paid the price. When he was 5, he got away from us and was mauled by a larger male going for the same female he was after. I have read that dogs can smell a female in heat up to 3 miles away.
__________________ Becky...mommy to Barney, Anna (RIP), Willie Jack, and Zoe... RIP Max | |
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