[OwnedByJezebel]

Paisley 10: That was really a very difficult question, more difficult than you realized when you asked it. To a novice it may seem simple, but when you throw it out to experts, they see all of the complications and nuances of determining if a dog is worthy of breeding and, in turn, choosing breeding pairs. There is so much more to it than choosing a pretty male and a pretty female.

Maybe it would be like going on a forum for rockets and asking: "I want to build my first rocket. Will XXXX work as a rocket fuel?" Rocket scientists would probably start asking you all kinds of questions and wouldn't give you a "yes" or "no." What kind of rocket, how much does it weigh, how is it designed / constructed, rocket staging etc. It's not that XXX won't lift a rocket, it is just that the more you know, the more difficult it is to ignore all the details and nuances that go into determining the correct and best answer to the question. Nobody wants to lead you down the wrong path.

It is very difficult to take into consideration a dog's faults and all of the related dogs (ancestors, uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, sister, etc) -- and it should be a dog with minimal faults that is very close to standard -- and trying to find a suitable mate, complete with their own faults (and their relatives faults) in an attempt to come up with offspring that are excellent examples of the breed. Choose the wrong pair without considering history/faults and there is no telling what could pop up in the offspring that you can't see just by looking at that beautiful male and beautiful female.

Now if you ask the same question of someone inexperienced (like me), the best is that I could say, "it is possible, but can't give you a probability of whether it will turn out to be yes or no." Even those that breed using the most strict criteria produce only a few (maybe 25%) that are worthy of the show ring or breeding. When it comes to back yard breeders that never take all the faults into account, they probably rarely ever produce a dog that meets the standard closely enough. Then you get into all the health testing ......

The only advice I will give you is that if you are going to spay your girl, wait longer than 16 weeks. Yorkies often have retained baby teeth that need to be pulled, and you won't know if this is the case until perhaps 6 or 7 months of age. Hopefully, they will all fall out on their own, but if they don't that will require putting her under anesthesia. If you hold off on her spay until then, you can get it all done at once and not have to take the risk of putting her under twice.