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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I didn't read that hole post above.......... It was not really your question that bothered me it was the fact that you called mother dogs greedy hags. The fact that you can look at a mother dog and say that after all the work they do and apparently have no connection with the mother dog and say you where a breeder really upsets me and makes me feel bad for any dogs you breed. Small breeds are different the large breeds and whether you chose to believe that or not it is a fact large breeds grow and mature faster then smaller breeds. |
What I wrote was a tongue in cheek joke.
I always free fed my bitches when I bred. Not only did they have constant dry food in front of them, but they had "momma's mana" twice a day, which was a concoction I made for them to help promote optimum health for them and their pups.
I NEVER had a bitch drop weight, even the one that whelped 13 puppies for me, (granted, I helped bottle feed the pups), but I regularly had litters of 8-10, and never had a mother out of condition due to pups putting too much of a strain on her system, or not being fed enough.
And yet it never failed, as soon as I put food in front of the babies, momma would steal it. So I started weaning away from momma, and she could clean up nasty yucky crawled in the gruel covered babies once they were done. And YES I will JOKE about my bitches being greedy hags when they had no reason other than greed to steal baby gruel.
If one of your HUMAN friends stole her baby's Gerber's Strained Banana, you would call her a greedy hag too, and you wouldn't be joking about it, especially if you knew there was no reason for her to eat her infants food.
You can feel sorry for the dogs I bred all you want, but my dogs were cared for better than anything in my life, including myself. The ONLY exception would be my children.
My friends would joke and say when they die, they want to come back as one of my dogs. Hell, my VET said he wanted to come back as one of my dogs!!!
And actually, larger breeds mature slower than small breeds, though they do grow faster. This is why a Rott isn't considered mature until about 3 or 4 years.
My dogs while not toys, were not large by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I think there are some "teapots" here that are bigger than some of my dogs.
The LARGEST my dogs hit were 30lbs for males by the time I had my line breeding as I wanted it to, and 25 was the largest for females, my smallest was 19 lbs at maturity.. Yes, still considerably larger than a breeding quality yorkie bitch, but by no means a large dog.