Are you asking how you prevent your bitch from being bred? You separate her, from Day 1 of her cycle to the last day of her heat cycle, from the male. Physical separation, separate crates or rooms with the doors shut. Do not rely on panties, belly bands, baby gates or ex-pens they can climb over. It won't work.
Different people say different things on how many times to breed and whether to skip cycles or breed back to back. Coming in and out of heat, being pregnant, whelping and raising puppies is not easy on a bitch, esp. a toy breed.
My personal feeling is that I really need only two litters from a bitch unless she is producing exquisite puppies. My purpose for breeding is to try to breed as close to the standard set for my breed as set forth by the AKC (who in turn got it from our national breed club). If a bitch is not producing puppies that are closer to that ideal dog than she is herself then there is no point in continuing to breed her. In 2 litters I should (assuming I get 2 or so puppies in each litter and that I do get puppies of both sexes) either have a nicer bitch than her mom to continue my program or I have realized that she is not going to produce anything better than herself so no reason to breed her again. If I was not thrilled with the first litter and how it turned out I would not repeat the breeding and hope for the best but instead I would try a different stud that I think can compensate for what was wrong with the first litter.
This is not written in stone, but from my observations of my mentor's breeding program and my own personal experiences, I don't really need a ton of puppies from one particular bitch in order to move forward toward my goals. I did once repeat a litter with a bitch that I leased from my breeder because I was very happy with the quality of the first litter, but I really wanted a male from that combination, and the first litter was all girls. The repeat breeding included the male that I wanted (and 5 sisters!). I feel the same way about my males- if he is not producing puppies that are better than him, no point in breeding him again and again. I have bred one of my boys three times-- he was the sire of the repeat breedings, but again, the second breeding was to try to get a male, I had already kept a female from that litter. I also bred him to a different bitch, and kept a female from that litter. Most likely I will finish all three of his puppies, but will only breed the male and probably one of the females-- the one that I think is the better representative of the breed of the two girls. The sire, however, will not be bred again, I already have three very nice puppies from him, 2 of which will contribute to subsequent generations.
For me, the point to breeding is not to produce as many puppies as possible but to have better quality dogs with each subsequent generation. You don't need to breed a lot to do that, you have to breed smart. |