"I didn't really think there would be a set & definite answer....it just got me wondering as to maybe the average amount of dogs a reputable breeder could handle and still give the love and attention to them that they need and deserve."
This is me myself and how I myself feel:
There isn't no set definite answer, it is what each breeder/owner feels they can keep up with, but I myself know I couldn't keep up with 50 unless there was hired help to assist me in caring for them. This is why we downsized, It wasn't an easy choice as I truly loved each one of our babies in our litters and Tiffanie we had since she was a baby it was hard to allow her to be with someone else but with 2 children at the ages of 9 & 12, hubby, we have a Framing Construction Company, school, and such I just felt I couldn't keep up with them all and give them all the attention they needed, now when U have a litter of puppies that usually go to their forever homes at around the ages of 12 weeks some of ours we had till ages 6 months due to being so big, to me that is different for they aren't in U're regular pack. Our regular pack now is 5 and I can give each one what they need and all the love they deserve.
"This is a timely discussion for me as I spent several hours today bathing and grooming all of our yorkies. We have three grown females and one grown male -- two of these have 3/4 's of a full coat, one is pregnant and one is nursing. We have our four little boy puppies -- 6 weeks old now and running everywhere, they had their first baths today.
All dogs live in our family room/kitchen with us, and sleep in crates in our bedroom at night. The puppies are kept in a playpen in our bedroom at night and in a playpen in the kitchen when I have to be away during the day. Otherwise they run in the kitchen with an x-pen fence to keep them off the family room carpet.
There is going to be some overlap between the litter we have now and our next litter (due in 2 weeks). We know we have at least 4 puppies in the next litter (sonogram)."
It does become time consuming when U're taking care of U're babies they way then should be kept.
"When your house smells like a pet shop and/or a dirty hamster cage"
When Clydes' new family came to our house, when they came into our Yorkie Room she said "Now this is the way a home for Yorkies should smell and look" they had went to other homes and pet stores here in our town that day looking for a Yorkie and she said out of all the visited not one was in the shape ours was, that ours was the cleanest they had seen. Well of course I was very proud. And they adopted Clyde that day.
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