Hi there Cindy and the rescue team,
in response to your message to me and the questions you asked, here are the answers, if I leave any out let me know. I will write back tomorrow as I am about to go out of town to take my mother to her sisters.
First off my dogs live in our home, sleep in our beds, on the couches and in their crates at times. At times they are in the laundry room if we have a quick errand and don't want all of them left out in the house. We have been visited by the AKC and passed easily. My mama dogs have 3 to 4 litters usually. However, I haven't had but the yorkies I mentioned ever before. Trixie was our first and she is old. She was here for a while and not bred to begin with, she was just our baby and still is today! She is a very smart girl who thinks she is still 3! She runs and barks and bosses all of our other yorkies around. She is the head honcho around here! Then there was Gabriel born years later and Daisy whom we bought from a breeder here in NC. They are both sweethearts, but Daisy was a little older. We got Gabriel as a couple month old baby. Then got River and she had Dickens later on and we kept him. Dickens and Gabriel are what i call brothers, but not by blood. Not sure about when to retire our males, I haven't done that yet. Am thinking of retiring Gabriel now, but he is only 5. What do you think? Is that too soon?
About how many we have well lets see, I think I have mentioned all of them in this email... we have Trixie, Daisy, Gabriel, Dickens, River and Mi MI... all but Mi Mi. I didn't mention her in this message. Anyway, hope I have answered all of your questions and to be honest, I don't think i will be having many more litters as Mi Mi is the last female I have to breed. I can breed Daisy or River again, but don't think that I will be doing that. It is a hobby for us. I have mentioned on my site that we had rags for sale, but she wasn't mine, i was selling her for someone else and then we were supposed to have puppies like in October and December. But we didn't. We decided to likely retire those females and didn't breed. We have Mi Mi bred again though. She is due soon. I don't have but one to two litters a year. It will NONE next year of our own dogs as I won't be breeding Mi Mi next year at all... if I breed her again it will be a while. Hope you have a great night and thanks for writing!
