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Originally Posted by Nancy1999

One of the signs of a bad breeder is someone who sells on open registration. This means they do not care where their dogs wind up or who breeds for them. When man steps in and starts breeding animals, he takes nature out of the process, and man must continue to step in and breed intelligently. Breeding intelligently is not an intuitive thing, it takes years of study to learn how to do this, but most people don't care, they think any offspring is acceptable, as long as it's pureblood, and in truth purebred means very little, it just means that they come from a line of dogs related to each other. However, the breeders who produced the lines could have done everything wrong! It's hard for the newbie to get started and do it right, but someone who really wants to breed for the right reasons, will find someone who's willing to teach them about breeding. By the way, just because the sire was from an awesome breeding program, it doesn't mean he wasn't the one who passed this on, each dog may have had one recessive gene, that's why it's so important to know the lines.

Originally Posted by Ringo1

That certainly is horrific and, once again, makes me SO glad that I had my Lucy spayed and will never, ever subject her to this.

I'm sorry for your loss, I'm guessing the puppies died or were PTS?

I hope that anyone who is thinking about willy-nilly breeding their dog reads your post and thinks twice.

I wholeheartedly agree with the above posts. It really does take time and research to be able to breed with a good outcome. Sure, some willy-nilly (I love that saying) breeders get really lucky, some not so much. That's why my boy is neutered as well. I don't know his background, he doesn't look like a Yorkie should, so why add to the ongoing problem? I'm so sorry to hear about the pups your mom's dam had.