Good for you ! You're off to a good start and when you said size should not be the deciding factor - you are so right ! Health is.
Keep asking questions - there's an answer here for everything but you're already ahead of the game by being here - there's lots of people that will guide you to a good breeder. Many of us didn't have the luxury of this site when searching - we may have DONE research but like me - it was years ago and I now know I chose a bad breeder - I was lucky - I have very healthy girls - but a bad breeder all the same...it happens alot of us -
so keep asking those questions.......just knowing the red flags is a good start and you already do |