I wouldnt breed for these reasons.. my dogs mean more to me than a litter of puppies, I dont enough about the subject to even consider it, I couldnt handle loosing the entire litter, I dont think I have the drive to try and keep a litter of puppies alive if the mom was to reject them,my friend has hand raised several litters and just by her experience it is not something I would want to do and I have 4 children that I know would become very attached to every puppy and we would keep them all.
The people we got Tucker from are friends of ours, they have 3 children and when it was time for us to take Tucker home, the kids didnt handle it well. It broke my heart to see them so upset, they knew from the beginning that the puppies werent theres to keep but it was still very hard for them. One of the kids actually asked Santa claus if he would bring Tucker back to them.
. We take Tucker over there as much as possible but its still not the same.
Good luck with your desicion!!