Thanks so much for responding to me
Your response was very thorough and I really appreciate it
I will take all of that into consideration, and I am not 100% sure I will breed her, I may decide not to and just have her spayed.
As for holding other people to a responsibility I will not hold myself to, I absolutely will. They are friends of mine with absolutely no experience in breeding animals and I will be giving them the dogs only under the condition that they agree to not breed them and to have them spayed or neutered.
My mom showed Pomeranians while I was growing up and I've been in the operating room while her females were having c-sections. I've birthed small pups, I'm aware of how to clean the sack, how to sling them to get the mucous out of their lungs, and the warning signs to watch for in the mothers that they may be septic or there might be problems with the birthing.
I'm pretty well versed on how to deliver pups and I know that small dog births are particularly difficult. (I saw a fully trained vet sling one of my mom's puppies directly into the floor because he improperly gripped the dog).
While I greatly respect that you believe I shouldn't hold anyone to standards I wouldn't hold myself to, I disagree. There are enough unregistered dogs in shelters as it stands, and because I very seriously want the offspring of my dog to raise and to love, I am willing to go against what I believe in and consider having a litter of pups with her, but I absolutely don't want to perpetuate that into generations upon generations of unregistered dogs or backyard/in home breeders breeding her offspring for a quick buck. That is the reason I will only place her offspring in homes I know personally, and will do so with great discretion and a sense of responsibility. I feel a direct responsibility to ensure that if she does have puppies, I know full well where each of them go, and that they are altered.
While I was very involved in the birthing side of what my mother did (she was great, by the way, she only had 2-3 litters a year. She owned 2 sires that she showed to Champion status w/ AKC and owned 3 bitches. She either sold the dogs as show potential to very good show homes, or pet-only with limited registration and a spay/neuter contract). I was not in any way involved with understanding how studs or stud fees worked, which is why I am asking for help understanding it