[gemy]

Impish what a great response! What time it took, to elucidate with clarity, the thinking of many breeders and long time fanciers of our breed.

Yes accidents do happen, even when you have two intact opposite sex dogs in the house. I am thinking the result of hurricanes, tornadoes. home invasions et al. Or you fainted and or had a heartattack and inadvertently let your dogs out of their rooms and or crates. Those are accidents.

I posted before as a breeder sometimes mishaps do happen. But we know it is our dereliction of duty that has occasioned this "accidental" breeding. We didn't latch the crate securely, we left the door open, we went to bed without checking the above. And we are human, but we are breeders; capable of making a termination decision, capable of rearing a litter of pups and DNA;ing to determine parentage. It happened to me. But it was with two fully health tested and purebred same breed dogs, that I did not want to mate to each other. Luckily nothing happened, as my gal only wanted to jump up onto my bed to be with me. The male would not go up on the bed, the Yorkie was in his crate. I could say it was an accident. But it was my fault if a tie had happened that night; no one elses!

And just to note, no belly bands or diapers were even considered to be used as a deterrent to mating. It was separate crates and rooms. Unfortunately the two what should have been fail safes failed. Why human error of course.