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Originally Posted by kaydelongpre

I appreciate your input & huge amount of knowledge. I was pretty overwhelmed by the amount of responses and all the conflicting info & conversations, so I never got to anwsering everyone's follow-up questions. She had a spay & neuter contract that required the contact info for the vet we would use, and introduced me to her vet who does spay/neutering for a discount for her pups since he's her vet for all her adults & she refers the owners of her pups to him. She informed me that that vet can do tail docking when they're under already for the spaying/neutering if wanted (if I do end up getting the pup, I wouldn't want it done for the record. She will just be my pet anyway and if the breeder never did it, I certainly wouldn't get it done by choice afterwards. I figure there's no point. I see the point in breeders doing it before pups are sold, but it's a pointless thing to do IMO if she's already a pet in my possession). She offered everything else I would look for in a breeder. A 5 year health guarantee, pedigree, lifetime breeder support, and even included a free year of puppy health insurance for vet visits (she registers & pays for insurance for all her pups for 1 year to make the first year of ownership easier on her customers). These pups' dam was 5th generation of ones she has bred, her retired adult had even more generations with her. And she says she knows the pedigrees & histories of the generations before they were with her. as well
Like I said, I have a lot of experience as my family bred bulldogs for a long time. So I know about things like neuter contracts/pedigrees/health guarantees/etc. It was just the breed specific Yorkie things I was fairly uneducated on. All of her general breeding practices went above & beyond my standards. However, I had no clue about whether or not a reputable breeder breeds this coloring or leaves tails undocked.

Docking a tail after a couple days old is considered amputation which makes it a much rougher thing for the dog to go through so weird she would say that. I was kinda concerned about the weight of the female because I noticed you used the word tiny a lot. I know that might could be just by being new to the breed lol. Heck mine seems tiny at 17 pounds. You will find some very strong strick breeders who won't breed anything but traditional and have strong opinions about it and some that do. You can do a search on yt and see the many heated topics about Parti's and tail docking lol