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Originally Posted by Emma Lee  I will absolutely consider the advice that has been given and appreciate it. I purchased my yorkie poo from a women who breeds yorkies, it was not something that she did on purpose. She bought a yorkie who was pregnant and did not know it. She has supported breeding my yorkie poo, though she does not breed them herself. When I talked about bettering the line what I was trying to say was eventually the poodle would be a very small contribution to this particular line. I guess I did not stop to think about all of the other things that go along with it. I will not breed these puppies and will do more research and when I feel confident in what I have learned I will then make a more informed decision as to whether or not breeding is something I wish to pursue. All but one of my puppies is spoken for and I will strongly suggest that the dogs be spayed/neutered. Emma had four puppies 3 girls, 1 boy, 2 girls and the boy are going and I will now be looking for a home for the 3rd girl. Maybe my question and my first breeding experience started out as a dumb one, but I have learned something from it. |
I first came to YT looking to become a breeder myself. I had ideas in my head on how it all worked and how easy and great it would be because I just knew the momma would just do it all. BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!! I would like to say I had an oops breeding but I knew my yorkie was in heat and I knew what would happen if she was around a male....so I take responsibility and say I uneducatedly (if it is even a word) allowed my yorkie to be near a male and they did tie once. I have since then learned a WEALTH of information and had a litter of 5 pups since then who are now 8 weeks old today. I have been blessed with a text book easy pregnancy, easy whelping, healthy puppies who are wonderfully beautifully text book yorkie puppies. My most difficult situations have been not knowing what the "bubble" was when whelping I had no clue (but thanks to Mardelin I am now educated) and I had an episode of puppy constipation (I thought it was a seizure) easily resolved with a $77 enema and prune juice. I CANNOT IMAGINE any type of truly tragic situation with my puppies or losing my momma.
I have spent the past 4 + months completely stressed out, financially draining, and extremely tired trying to do everything in my power to make sure I am doing right by Bella Mia and our puppies. Dont get me wrong I dont mind it one bit but it wasnt the easy simple momma does everything way I pictured in my head. That all being said I have decided I still have much to learn about breeding and I would still like to someday become a breeder. Until that time comes I will continue to learn everything I can about showing yorkies and finding a GREAT mentor and breeding correctly.
Do lots and lots of research and then I will do some more that is my attitude....when I am better educated I will have the knowledge to go along with my intrest.
Please do not feel stupid just learn from the wonderful information you have been given and do right by what you have learned.....the folks here give better, more detailed information than most any other source about yorkies. Please take the VALUEABLE educational part of what the ladies are telling you and go from there...GOOD LUCK!