[yorkietalkjilly]

Oh, I hope you don't breed this little pair. They apparently have had a puppymill start in life and you know dogs from those places are bred to one another indiscriminately. Why not think of the rights of a dog to have a nice, comfortable life after he's had a very bad time of it the first part of his life instead of any rights you have to breed him? I would let them just be pets and not risk that female's health with pregnancy/whelping/nursing after her bad history. Isn't it enough to just have two wonderful pets and leave the breeding to those with health-tested AKC stock and years of breeding experience?

If you will stay on YT for any time, you will see that this breed, like many other breeds in this day and time, can be replete with medical problems and I wonder just how many of those come as the result of breeders who don't know if their animal even should pass on any of its genes because they have had no reputable, extensive health testing. If people keep breeding indiscriminately, won't we just wind up with two classes of Yorkies - one class from healthy genetic lines that are often very, very expensive due to the extraordinary measures of endless testing their breeders are having to take to be sure they haven't somehow wound up with a dog that has some tendency or likelihood to develop a serious medical condition plus long hours of study and consultation as to which dam should be bred to which stud for optimal puppies vs. a class bred by far less knowledgeable and experienced breeders whose dogs often have come from happenstance breeding with lots of actual/potential inherited medical conditions and/or are bred without any thought to the likely pups the mating will produce as to correct conformation -and usually cost the owners far more money and heartbreak in the long run? Isn't it better for the overall health and future of the Yorkshire Terrier to leave the breeding to those breeders with all the systems in place to improve the breed?