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Originally Posted by thelittleyorkie  I went back in her Breeder's FB page history and I saw that she first started to mate her male with two of her females sort of young....the male was 15 months and the two females were 12 months and 11 months (this was back at around mid-October 2013). I think this is pretty young so I now have more reservations....
If I'm doing my calculations correct, the male should be 27 months old now (2 years 3 months) and both females should be about 24 months old now (2 years). From looking at what gemy posted, it looks like Leggs Perthes and LP should have shown up by now but it's not a guarantee.
So so far, both females have had litters in Dec 2013 and July 2014.
The price she was asking for the pup was $800, which is pretty reasonable, but money shouldn't be the deciding factor. The pup's health is all that I care about... |
Well she has stated she does not health test, so you can't check to see what the results are through the health databases.
Mating a female that young well it is definitely frowned about by most responsible breeders be they members of a National Club or not.
Mating a male at 15months old of course is a tad different, how-ever again you can not do the complete health screenings at 15mths old.
I don't know the pricing of pure-bred AKC Yorkies where you live, but $800 is certainly not cheap for a pup, from parents that are not health tested, nor championed, whose lineage seems to reflect poor registries.
In my two clubs, we don't allow our females to be bred until the second heat or 18months
old which-ever is longer. She stated she studied up on more than just the basics of breeding, then why did she breed her two females so young. That is a rhetorical question as I see that you have decided to pass on this puppy from this breeder.
It is certainly the decision I would make as well.