[gemy]

To the OP:

If you want a healthy puppy the first place to start is with healthy sires/dams. As you mentioned health a numbers of times as your first concern then here is what you "should" want to know:

1. What prebreeding tests "specifically" have been done? Don't accept oh my dogs are up to date on all shots, and see the vet regularly. that is fine for pet dogs, not breeding dogs. There are specific tests that need to be done prior to breeding.

2. Have your breeding dogs been test for LP(Luxating Patella) HD, (hip Dysplasia), BAT tested (Bile Acid Test). Have your dogs been tested for PRA (CERF'd).
If the answer is yes to all, please give me what registry the results are posted under so I can see the results. For LP/HD it is OFA for PRA it is CERF, for BATS there is currently none. Also a very few Yorkies have been issued CHIC numbers which is one place you can go to see the results of all the aforementioned tests.

3. What health concerns have cropped up in your breeding lines? If the answer is none, that would make me quite skeptical. Unless this breeder has only ever had one litter, but then again, you are talking about the whole line, that means grandsires/dams, greatgrandsires/dams, etc.

A good breeder should welcome these questions, in fact should have already volunteered this information to you.

In my opinion, if a breeder has a website, then they should post on that website just exactly what breed tests etc they do as a matter of course for the breeding dams/sires.