[TeddyandTiffy]

I want to say this from my experience from this past week with my 2 older daughters...& I'm not saying this to anyone who breeds any breeds (Mix or Purebred) responsibly...That meaning they know what they truly are getting their selves into, have studied their breeds and has seriously thought the whole breeding issue through, has the money for emergencies and all supplies needed for Mother and new Puppies when they arrive, and also have the time and patience to put into a new litter of any breed puppies.

Breeding is not just putting two dogs together to have pretty puppies...This is NO reason to BREED any purebred or mix...I will stand firm on that. I’m sorry this is so long , but I want this Gal who is even thinking about breeding to see what I’ve been through this week with my own Daughters. & I'm not saying she herself would do this but this is something to not be taken lightly by no mean.


My oldest daughter (24) got her a mix breed puppy he's 5 weeks old, a lab and husky mix, they named him Jake...Keep his mix breeding in mind...I wouldn't allow her to bring him here...She got him last Wednesday April 30th...Well I couldn’t tell U how many times that girl has called me sayin’ mom he's doing this or mom he's doing that what do I do...

I said heather he's a mix breed and U're gonna have some thing in him that U wouldn't normally have with one breed such as attitude, chewing, health, potty training...She got the picture.

Finally I allowed her to bring him to our house in the front yard only…Keep in mind that I haven’t held or been around another breed dog in 3 years…I haven’t even held another breed dog…Well he is the sweetest cutest, adorable mix breed puppy I’ve ever seen has the most beautiful husky lightest blue eyes I’ve ever seen…Has the husky coat & yes he stole my heart, but he is the most persistent little thing U ever seen, I have roses and that fur ball would not stay out of them for nothing…So here I am trying to get him out of them, he finally got the message after 30 minutes of teaching. He is meek and mellow dog other wise, very good with our girls and granddaughter but very very persistent.

Now she is trying to playpen train him so he will be puppy pad trained, nope he’s not having it for he yelps to high heaven every single time she puts him in it…I told her she has to keep it up with him. So she is at least trying him.

Oh that isn’t it, so she decides she wants another dog that is another mix breed of Jack Russell and Chihuahua, so she goes and gets the new mix breed this Sunday May 4th, he looks like the Jack Russell, she sends me a text photo of him…Gets him to her house and calls me saying him and Jake are fighting something bad she hadn‘t had this dog for a hour mind U…I ask how many was in his litter, she said the house was full of them, said it was an older lady that had him…I said well Heather I’d say he has had to fight before due to having so many in the house and U’re gonna have problems with him wanting to be the dominate one…She said Jake was just laying there not fighting back with him, he was taking it.

So guess what my 24 year old that I never ever raised this way said? I don’t want him…I said what, oh yes she said it again…Well of course I gave her a butt chewing…I said call his breeder back and if she is a responsible breeder then she’ll take him back, she called nope she wasn’t having him back, she said she gave him to them and she wasn’t taking him back for anything (Sad but this does happen U know with people) well that went through me.

I told Heather what I thought about that breeder being that way. So I said well call a guy that works with my Hubby he might take him, she says U call I said Oh no U got U’re self into this U’re getting U’re self out of it…She got mad and all huffy but she did the calling, he said no he didn’t want him…She calls me back saying he doesn’t want him…I’m taking him to the Humane Society she said, Well that went through me I said the H--- if U are, no way U’re not doing that to any dog…Heather U take such animals on they are now U’re responsibility and U have to find him a good home.

I said call Mamaw & Papaw (My Mom & Dad), they have Muncie & Faith (2 females) which by the way was her dogs that are Jack Russell and Chihuahua mix breed also but she had to move to get out of a bad situation with a guy and couldn’t keep them so my Parents took them…My parents live on 40 acres & they are well kept, have a very large playhouse my Dad built for a dog house, I mean my Hubby can stand up in the thing…It’s very nice and right across from their driveway and they can see them from their kitchen and living room windows and door…They have a fenced in yard attached to the dog house to play in and heat in the winter…My Dad does take very good of their dogs, even mix breeds and he raises pure bred Beagles.

So she calls them and like usually they come to my girls rescue when I can’t or don’t… They took him…& love him said they was going to train him like Muncie to get moles out of their yard & be a Snake watcher and Muncie is such a good dog for my parents, she will not let my parents out around a Snake, if there is one close to them, Muncie stops them from getting near it…She will kill the Snake and bring it on the porch for them to see…One was under the porch last Summer and Dad tried to come out the door, Muncie wouldn’t let him out until she killed that Snake, then she brought it on the porch for Dad to see. So this story has a very happy ending, thanks to my Parents. Heather is keeping Jake.

My other Daughters’ boyfriend is looking for a puppy not a older dog, he wants one for outside…I said go to the Humane Society to find one, he said they don’t have puppies I said yes they do, they have litters sometimes just threw to the sides of the road and they have mommies that come in there that are ready to whelp…Go look, but I also tried to tell them that if U get a mix breed dog U’re looking at 2 different breeds coming into one body…And they are different then a full bred dog.

I looked up this OP age and she is right around my daughters age…I honesty feel she needs to do her research before any breeding of any dog is done. But this is just my OPO and what I’ve been through this past week with my daughters… Hope this will help her in her choices, Lee