Hello yorkie breeders,
I am a new yorkie mom.
My baby is 6 months old now, and it’s time to spay her. BUT, now that it’s time to make that decision I am contemplating if I SHOULD indeed spay her. I was not going to even entertain the thought of possibly breeding her, because I don’t know anything about breeding dogs, frankly this is my first dog EVER, and I thought all responsible pet/dog owners should JUST s/n their pets(if not a breeder), unless there is a health issue.
But now I am having second thoughts because I came to realize that she has the best temperament ever!
Mostly through going to puppy classes and puppy socials with her, listening to other pet owners share their stories about their cutie pies’ mischievous deeds. I realized that my dog does not do any of those things that they are talking about, and also, my fiance who grew up with dogs (his aunt is a breeder) told me that I was very lucky to have such a good, loving dog, because he’s never met a dog so well behaved in his life.
As well as getting a compliment from a dog trainer that said my baby is very well trained…(even though again, I don’t know that much about dogs, I just read as much as I can to make up for never having grown up with dogs)
Also, she is a cutie pie (I had a breeder ask me if I was going to breed or show my dog. (I said NOOOOO at the time, but now I am wavering, because she is such a good dog)
So I thought maybe the vet can help me with this tough decision. But my vet told me that he doesn’t know how to answer my question, because he said that my baby is a good looking healthy dog with a good temperament, and that if you didn’t breed dogs like that then what dogs DO you breed. But he said that for him personally, he would do something else with his spare time. I didn’t get the answer I wanted, so I push further, I said, well, I was ONLY going to consider breeding her if she will reach 5 lbs. I asked the vet if that was a good criteria. (Since my baby is only 2.7 lbs, and the vet said she will probably be up to 3.5lbs when she is full grown) I thought that she was too small to have babies, but for some reason, the vet said that it was ok for her to have babies, and that using 5 lbs adult weight is not necessarily a necessary criterion…
So he left me to wrestle with the decision…..
So…….I am 90% sure that I should spay her, but that other 10% is…. loud and strong, and forced me to at least get some breeders’ opinions on the issue. Can you offer me your thoughts, maybe pros and cons regarding this issue?
Some additional info that might be relevant:
1) I got her when she was 12 wks old, she weighed 1.7 lbs at the time of her initial check-up, and at the next vet appt. (3 wks later) she was 1.9 lbs, and then she kind of stayed at 2.7 lbs at her following visits (the following months)
2) Her parents’ are both AKC registered, I haven’t registered her, only because I didn’t feel necessary because I wasn’t thinking about breeding her
3) If I did end up breeding her…I would like to keep the babie(s) in the family. (Either keep to myself, or give to mom or sister who also would love to have a dog.)
I don’t even know why this is such a tough decision for me, probably because I feel that maybe my dog has really nice traits that should be passed on? But I am sure I am not the right person to be breeding her if she is to be bred, I think she is too small (and if it’s risky for a small yorkies to have babies, then I WILL NOT consider it), and I think someone with such little experience as myself probably should not entertain the idea of breeding dogs. Thank you for reading my LONG post
