[Furbaby Friend]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

I don't think you can judge someone breeding skills, just by the number of litters a year, it's definitely an indicator, but a serious breeder often has a minimum of 5 breeding bitches. If each one had 1 litter a year, that's 5 litters, Again I see a difference between 5 and ten, but ten is still within the range, if a breeder has ample help. Same with pet owners, some people have no problem taking care of 5 pets; yet this would overload other pet owners. Questions we should be concerned with are how is this breeder selling her dogs, does she find good homes, does she place them on limited registration, what are the kennel conditions, is there proper vet care? Does she stand behind her dogs, does she do health testing, does she sell breeding dogs to people with no breeding skills, and no mentoring. So many things should be used to access breeder capabilities. I would rather see someone breeding ten litters a year who thoroughly knew what they were doing, then someone who just breed a couple of litters, and was clueless.

And again Nancy is way more awesome at expressing her points than I will ever be.