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I do have issues with the bold statements quoted.
I guess only the breeders who post here are scrupulous? Have you been to her house? Seen her kennel? What in what I wrote led you to believe she is unscrupulous. All breeders will go out of the business or die at some point. What is to become of their breeding stock? Won't they sell them to people who want them as pets or to other breeders?
To say she was used as a puppy machine when she only had one litter is a little extreme in my opinion. Do the breeders who post here miraculously produce pups without their dams giving birth? Do they only ever breed their dams once? Why are they not unscrupulous?
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No, not all breeders who post here are scrupulous which is sad but true. In answer to your question about breeding stock when they go out of business or die this is a very sad story also as many of these dogs go to auctions to be used over and over again from greeders. Some are even turned into shelters to be euthanized and some are taken out back and shot. The dog breeding world is not pretty and here are a couple of links you might want to look at.
Puppymills - auctions of dogs in commercial kennels.
You are right we have not been to this breeders house but how do you know she was telling you the truth? I don't mean any disrepect with this statement but we all know on here breeders lie all the time. How did you find her (the breeder)? What proof do you have this little girl only had 1 litter? Where do you think the dogs slept at night? How did the other dogs act when you came to the house? What did the lady do to quiet them down? Does this breeder have a website? Was she breeding other breeds? I ask these questions because frankly most Yorkies are not submission and will fight to the end and will bark their fool heads off if someone comes to the house. I do have one of my rescue's that is submission but she was beaten and tortured so she is frightened of her shadow. I have to take everything slow with her.
I do believe it would be cruel to her to have a litter as her brain is very scrambled for whatever reason.