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Originally Posted by red98vett I agree with you Cheryl001 - this is why SoCalyorkielvr.....you put a disclaimer in your posts.... yet you are always defending breeding of tinies....I don't get it  This is a POLL on how people FEEL - I think the original question was to post our feelings on it and NOT debate. If those are your feelings Kim... then I apologize...but, since you post so much about being Pro-Tiny - I have to really wonder where your feelings really are.
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So even with my disclaimer
you have to misrepresent my opinion as you have done time and time again. It gets so old correcting your false posts but I will continue to do it as long as you continue to post them.
I have never defended the breeding of tiny females but have merely kept an open mind on the subject until someone presents proof that it is cruel or wrong in some way. I have not seen it. I refuse to take the negative attitude and bash perfectly reputable and well intentioned breeders without some other than forum member's hearsay or the advice of breeders who have never bred a smaller female. These are the only sources who I have ever heard say it is wrong. Vets do not. canine reproductive specialists do not and breeders who breed for tinies do not.
As i stated in my first post....I am undecided on the issue as a result.
Personally, as I have said, I would not risk the lives of one of my pets with a pregnancy no matter what their size, but does that mean I think that yorkie breeders should all have their dogs taken away from them, or that they are just doing it for the money, or they don't care about their dogs as ytsirk27 asserts. ..I realize that people think differently and I accept that. I feel the same about people who over vaccinate their pets, have their tails docked or subject them to routine spaying and neutering. I respect their rights to do these things as the animals caretaker just as I hope others will respect mine.
I have met plenty of awesone and very caring breeders of yorkies and I know for a fact that they care greatly for their babies, and to allege otherwise with an across the board generalization is not only not fair, but really short sighted and negative thinking imo.
The vet in the story I cited from the internet is not just a vet but a
reproductive specialist known as a theriogenologist with trememndous credentials and well respected by her peers so I think she knows what she is talking about and I would take her advice over a vet in general practice who chose to abort a puppy because the mother was smaller than the male.