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Yorkiemom1 · 10-27-2012, 05:08 PM

In your view of the situation, you are looking at two scenerios....you have a precious baby that you know is a puppy mill baby....so you want to breed this darling baby, so you can have another puppy, one that you did not contribute money to another puppy mill in order to get. The whole object of the game of breeding, is to, at the very least, maintain the breed standard of the Yorkshire Terrier. Hopefully, responsible, ethical breeders have done enough homework, know for generations, pedigrees and lines and know what can be crossed and mixed so that you get a litter of babies that, at the very least, meet the parameters of the breed standard. You are trying to get the ultimate show dog, as close to perfect as possible. That is not an easy task, and is taken very seriously by ethical breeders. To purchase a puppy from a puppy mill, and then want to breed this baby, not knowing even one generation of what is in the lines behind your baby, is doing the puppies born of such a breeding, and the breed as a whole, an injustice. You also have to be concerned about STD's in your dog and the dog you breed him to. You have to have a competent working knowledge of diseases transmitted by breeding, testing that is required prior to breeding, as well as backgrounds on any female you breed to. You are about to step off in way over your head here, and I think you will do better to find you a responsible breeder, not a puppy mill or a someone that just throws two dogs together and hopes for the best, and get you another baby. Even if you knew who produced your little male, dogs are like kids....they are not alike! and the chances of you getting a baby exactly like the one you have now, is slim. In any event, it is not responsible or ethical for you to breed a puppy from a puppy mill. What registry does your baby belong to?

10-27-2012, 05:08 PM	#6
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	In your view of the situation, you are looking at two scenerios....you have a precious baby that you know is a puppy mill baby....so you want to breed this darling baby, so you can have another puppy, one that you did not contribute money to another puppy mill in order to get. The whole object of the game of breeding, is to, at the very least, maintain the breed standard of the Yorkshire Terrier. Hopefully, responsible, ethical breeders have done enough homework, know for generations, pedigrees and lines and know what can be crossed and mixed so that you get a litter of babies that, at the very least, meet the parameters of the breed standard. You are trying to get the ultimate show dog, as close to perfect as possible. That is not an easy task, and is taken very seriously by ethical breeders. To purchase a puppy from a puppy mill, and then want to breed this baby, not knowing even one generation of what is in the lines behind your baby, is doing the puppies born of such a breeding, and the breed as a whole, an injustice. You also have to be concerned about STD's in your dog and the dog you breed him to. You have to have a competent working knowledge of diseases transmitted by breeding, testing that is required prior to breeding, as well as backgrounds on any female you breed to. You are about to step off in way over your head here, and I think you will do better to find you a responsible breeder, not a puppy mill or a someone that just throws two dogs together and hopes for the best, and get you another baby. Even if you knew who produced your little male, dogs are like kids....they are not alike! and the chances of you getting a baby exactly like the one you have now, is slim. In any event, it is not responsible or ethical for you to breed a puppy from a puppy mill. What registry does your baby belong to? Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 10-27-2012 at 05:10 PM.