[thelittleyorkie]

For the umbilical hernia:

The breeder said that it was caused by mom pulling too much on the cord at birth. She says she knows that a pup will have the hernia if she notices that mom getting to close to the pup's belly. She stated that if the pup had a hernia than she tells the prospective buyer ahead of time and lets them know. She doesn't like to do the surgery prior to adoption since the pups are so young and that she would like them to get bigger before the surgery. She said that for the pup that had the hernia, she called the local vets in the buyer's area to get an overall price estimate and took that amount off of the cost of the pup.

For the reasons to breed part:

She said that she and her husband have always loved dogs. Her mother-in-law was a breeder so her husband was used to being in the proximity. She said that before she did not have much knowledge about dogs and mating except for her experiences as a kid and her yorkie and her husband's pug ended up mating. She then said that after she found out, she started doing tons of research, reading articles and books, watching videos, and learning about whelping to get ready for the pups. After the pups were whelped, she told me that she liked being a breeder, the pups, doing all the research, how the AKC worked and then decided to become a breeder full-time and studied and learned everything she possibly could about breeding. She says that she is still continuing to take classes and just completed her General Veterinary class and that she is hoping to take a Fecal Flotation class in the future. She says that she hopes to become a vet one day and that currently she is studying/reading vet tech books and researching on coat and color genetics. She also says that she has a friend that is a vet tech and that they often get together to swap knowledge and talk about yorkies.

For the registration:

She said that it was Conditional and Limited and that the pups would be pet only. No breeding.