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Originally Posted by bilbao  i agree it would be a bad idea for an 11 or 12 year old to get pregnant but if it did and im sure it happens more than we think. if it did happen would you demand that she have an abortion and then have her go under the knife to make sure she didnt ever have children again? or would you let it happen and let the family learn from their mistakes? just a thought... |
Not touching the human abortion issue with a 10 foot pole... my analogy was simply intended to point out how a dog can be biologically ready to be bred but not mentally ready, not to carry over to whether or not puppy fetuses and human fetuses have the same "life value." For me at least spaying a dog and losing puppies is a different issue from human abortion.
If I had a 9 month old bitch that got pregnant (which in my house would be next to a miracle because my intact boys and intact girls are always separated when unattended, even when the girls are not in season) I would think long and hard about what value I expected her to add to my breeding "program" in the future and whether or not I should sacrifice what she could add versus whether it is fair to require a puppy to whelp puppies and raise puppies. It would have to be a pretty darn important bitch genetically speaking for me to sacrifice the well being of my individual dog over that of the "program" as a whole as I am still in the mentality of caring for my dogs as individuals over the success of the "program." All of my girls eventually "go under the knife" and are spayed at some point anyway, which ends their ability to reproduce, I don't consider dogs to have a moral right or emotional need to breed. The question for my girls is whether it is done sooner rather than later...