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Originally Posted by minniemn I wanted to be a breeder, I researched and did all the right things as far as I knew.... I had a litter, and won't have anymore- my heart can't take it. Yes I loved seeing the happy faces of the people who bought my pups, but all the worry regarding the breeding, welping and then the pups growing was too much for me. So my hats off to those that can, and do breed.
My question is though to you socal... do you know how dangerous it is to drive a vehicle these days? do you still drive? do you still bring your precious pups in the vehicle with you? regardless if they are restrained or not, they have a greater chance dying or being injured in a vehicle than they do if they were left home.....
So I am wondering, if you can not understand how a breeder can put an female at risk to breed her, my question to you is... how can you put your life, your families life and your yorkies life in danger while driving or riding in a vehicle? it is a risk each time you do- but do you still do it? why? is it worth your yorkies life? |
Great example and
thank you for the chance to expalin what this thread was "supposed to be about."
Let me begin by saying that you will not find anywhere where I said that I "do not understand how a breeder can put a female to risk to breed her" (I am quoting from your post).....I have never said that......I have often asked what the motivation IS because I am a curious person and most say it is not to support their families because there is no profit in it, but I know they who do it have good and perfectly valid reasons for doing so.
In life...there are lots of risks..we take them every day and every day we have to balance the degree of risk with the benefit from taking the risk in everything we do.
I agree that driving a car is a risk but it is one that we all have weighed and researched with mostly insurance and highway patrol atatisitics and determined that the risk of serious accident is small enough and the benefit outweighs the smallness of the risk, so we participate in driving.
In order to weigh the risk of breeding a female yorkie...
one must first find out exactly what that risk actually is as best they can just as we did before deciding whether vehicular transportation was worth the risk to us. If the risk is small and only say one is 10,000 yorkies die during whelping or pregnancy or post pregnancy from complications then we may be more willing to take the risk than if we found out that the statistics show that one in four yorkies for example have complications. (This is a hypothetical..I am not throwing that one in four figure out there as the risk)
My reason for starting the thread was to be able
to tell those who are considering breeding what the actual risk is so that they will think really hard about breeding and, if they decide to accept the risk,
they will do so knowing what it is, and they will go from there to do whatever they can to minimize that risk by using the very best veterinary care all throughout the process, by having a mentor, by reading all the books and materials on yorkie breeding they can find, by attending whelpings before attempting it themselves, etc.
It is one thing to say..
are you willing to risk the life of your female, which is what most breeders will ask prospective breeders now, and another to say ...did you know that one in four breeding female yorkies dies due to pregnancy complications? or whatever the accurate statistics are.
This thread wasn't intended to criticize good breeders...I would never do that.....while I don't have it in me to be a breeder for the same reasons you mentioned, I have complete respect for those who do the hard work in a reputable and ethical way to produce these beautiful babies that we get to enjoy.
As you mentioned...
there are risks in life and we must know what they are to be able to better plan how to minimize them and to make the decision about which ones are too great to warrant the possible benefits. And they are all individual decisions that no one else can make for us.