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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. |
I do have to speak out here. You either dock the tail at 3-5 days old or you leave that tail intact. I would not go to her vet for s or n unless I had researched that vet met them and determined it was someone *for me* to bring my dogs to.
Reputable breeders are often in the eye of the beholder, and we do have a stickey on how to find a reputable breeder. Folks who breed Yorkies of off color do not breed to the Standard. And yes they may be purebred, but they are not to the Blue and Tan Standard of the Yorkshire Terrier. It is up to you if you want to support this breeder.
In terms of docking tails. There are very many show breeders who don't and who do. The USA standard calls for a
docked tail. But not at the age for goodness sakes that s+N takes place.!
I am a show breeder, and try to couch my opinions given the reality of the fact for any breed you name, we show breeders can not meet the market demand for puppies. I will couch my opinions with that reality in mind. I know what to expect from a show breeder, but in my mind the simple fact goes like this. If I spend thousands upon thousands of dollars, investigating, showing, health testing my champions, (and I do btw), give the ultimate in vet care, use the latest in puppy rearing techniques, and say oh for example charge $1500 for a pup of two Champions raised in this environment, why would you pay a similar price from someone who has done little if any of the above?? These will not be pups with just champions in their lineage, but their parents are champions of their own!
I am not sure now what the asking price of these puppies are but I can tell you if I was going to spend over $1000 for a pup the above would be what I am looking for.
Some food for thought.