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Originally Posted by SoCalyorkiLvr I agree with the others and really do appreciate your forthrightness as I and other non-breeders struggle with this issue.
Here is the thread I started a while back asking this question I have pondered for some time and why I asked you to share your experience since you were so gracious to do so. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361 |
Thank you SoCal for expressing your appreciation in my sharing. Really, I don't have any problem whatsoever discussing my breeding practices and am more than thrilled anytime anyone takes something beneficial and helpful from it. It is a true compliment.
Also, if someone does manage to make any sense of profit from breeding that is awesome, so long as the best interest of the dogs involved is put first and formost. As for my choice to breed my pet. Yes, I am well aware of the risks involved. I also feel that if you are well-educated, the female is properly cared for and the pregancy/delivery as a whole are handled properly, the risk of serious health problems is greatly reduced. I realize there are misfortunes never-the-less, but no more than say a human who decides to have a child would face. Would you consider these risks worth it?
I remember that thread very vividly...I believe it was your comments on the impossibility to properly care for the dogs if you also have an outside job that stuck with me most...a comment that I still don't understand.
Ahh, but that is a different debate altogether, isn't it?
I appreciate the opportunity to explain my motivations to you and am still willing to answer any questions you may have in the future regarding my breeding practices--I stand firmly behind them. I think maybe at this time it would be best for us just to agree to disagree? Yes, I think so. Now if you will excuse me, I have to warm up for a little Boom-Boom tree now and there is some ice cream somewhere that I am sure I need to eat.
