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Originally Posted by Lorraine  I would never consider my dogs to be the means to support me. To me, dogs are not livestock, I don't expect them to work for my living or indeed, theirs.
As to colour of the YOrkie, the breed standard defines what is acceptable colour. As the possibility in any mating, a wrong colour may be produced, certainly that puppy deserves a home as well and a good life if it is viable and not ill. If it is, the breeder can give it a quality of life.
However, to purposely breed for wrong colour in any breed is not contributing anything to that breed. To mislead people into paying ridiculous prices by marketing them as rare etc, in my opinion, is even more wrong.
A reputable breeder would sell such a wrong colour at much reduced prices or give them to a family member, friend etc to give them a good home. They would also look at their pedigree and likely never repeat that mating that produced such off colour and/or consider spay/neutering both parents if they own both. Certainly, the owner of the stud dog would be notified. |
You are very fortunate to be able to support yourself without having to breed and sell your yorkies.
Actually I lied about my reason for breeding, I do it to pay my own medical bills. I am disabled and my medical treatments cost over $5000 a month, my insurance only pays a portion of that.
My husband is considerably older than I am, and his health is not good either. He is a diabetic, has had a 5 bypss surgery done on his heart. He is also considered legally blind. If he dies before I do, which he most likely will, I will not be able to make my house payments and would therefore lose my house. also if I do not keep up with my medical bills and I'm forced to go on medicaid then the state will get my house.
I prayed a great deal about this, and then one day we lost our beloved yorkie. Once again I turned to God for answers, because I know that all bad things happen for a reason and I always look for the rainbow. The answer came to me. I was going to be buying a new yorkie and I would start breeding them.
I am not the type of person to weep and wail and curse God for my misfortunes, I always look for the rainbow. I am also not the type of person to question other peoples motives until I have walked a mile in their shoes.