I work part time outside of our home, but I work full time with every single Yorkies I have!! 5 of them, I get up every single morning, feed, water, change blankies, wash beds out, wash 5 faces, put 5 pony tails in, clean litter boxes, change puppy pads, redo ponytails, feed and water again, sweep and mop their floors, water on and off all day long, break up puppy fusses, plus doing their laundry and bathing all 5 of them every week which by the way takes me around 4 to 5 hours to do!!! Plus I have 2 daughters to care for, their baths to give (Well help my 9 yr old wash her hair) homework, meals to cook, our laundry, our house to clean, we run our own construction business so there's the book work on that to do, plus a man to care for on top of our Yorkies! I work my BUTT off inside my home forget the OUTSIDE WORK, anyone who says I don't work I'd gladly give them my INSIDE job for 1 day!! I keep asking my hubby if I die will he do all I do for my Yorkies, guess what no answer to be truthful he probably wouldn't be able to do it all!!! So breeding and raising Yorkies right in a clean well kept home isn't for the weak and I don't even show them, well I do I show them here at my home they are to me my prize babies even tho they have no ribbons on the wall from any wins they have won my heart, this is why I breed!! For the love of my breed and yes they are my breed! I cherish all the time invested in my loves, I cherish all the sleepless nights, all the pee and poo I clean, yes since I've had so many babies I have HUGH bags under my eyes!! Why sleepless nights, worrying where how my adopted dolls are!! That's why.
I have given and yes I said given 2 of our Yorkies away along with their Mother (Which I had spayed before rehoming her!!) and all supplies they needed even made a 8 hour trip, there and back to Ohio to make sure they had a good loving home!! Did I make a dime from those 3 babies why no but I got the joy and so did their parents of knowing they will live long lives being loved and wanted!! I didn't and haven't made tons from adopting Yorkies out!!! None of my dolls has been adopted out for no more then $500.00 and some didn't even reach 5 lbs. at 20 months old. I have all the cost on our 1st litter with Teddy and Tiffanie and we're in the hole with them so no there's no money to be made here at my home in raising Yorkies!! And I know we're in the hole with our last litter no doubts there I haven't even added it all up yet and yes I keep all receipts for each and every penny spent on ALL our Yorkies!!! And no I don't see it as loosing money I see it as a joy to raise Yorkies and try to better our breed (I'm Working on breeding toward the AKC Standards and not away from it!!!)
And as far as the adverting it does help us find good homes for our babies here I found a wonderful home for one of our babies through YT... In the case of Dillin "Moe" he was a wedding gift to a new bride from her new groom out of GA. His aunt found him here and he went to his new parent through her...He has the best home he could ever ask for, his own room, tons of clothes, toys, walks everyday and most of all love. We only have "Pet Quality" babies with a spay/neuter contract only with our previous litters and he was adopted for $500.00 far from my starting asking price of $800.00 out of our 5 babies we have adopted out to homes only 1 (DILLIN) out of 5 babies has been spayed/neutered and that is the sad part of this, one I've never laid eyes on, parents won't answer any call so I'd say she's been bred!! They have no papers so they must be adopting them out without them!! If it wasn't for this forum my Dillin would of never found his forever home!! He was 6 months old when he was adopted!!!! And not at a high price!!! |