I have no idea where you bought her that you paid that much for a pet. I am sure if you look around you can find a breeder selling pet puppies for pet prices.
So, if you consider breeding her, this is what is going to be something to keep in mind.
Are you able to be home the last week or so before she is due in case she goes into labour early?
Do you know a good Vet clinic open 24/7 in case she needs a C section should something go wrong? Would you recognize if something is not as it should be.
Do you have a spare $1000+ available for an emergency clinic?
Are you prepared to perhaps lose mom and puppies in a worse case scenario?
If she is blonde, her colouring is not correct to breed standard. Should she indeed be bred and why? What about other faults she may have?
If she is registered, do you have breeding rights or was she purchased under spay/neuter contracts?
Do you know anything about genetic problems in Yorkies and what about her pedigree, how much do you know about her parents, grandparents etc?
If you are successful in presenting a litter, can you be home the first week or two making sure they are getting on nursing and thriving.
If there is a weak one or one that is having a problem nursing, would you know what to do to try to save it which could fail anyway? That commitment is you are up every 90 minutes around the clock until that pup can nurse and thrive on its own. After all that I have still lost a pup at 9 days of age which I cried for days after.
It could involve stomach tubing, can you do that?
How much does your vet charge for doing tails and dew claws on puppies as I assume you won't know how to do it yourself at 3-5 days of age.
Do you know what eclampsia is? Which can happen in a bitch and cause death.
Then there is the weaning stage at 3-4 weeks where you have to start feeding them too along with mom nursing them. You have to be around during the process of weaning a litter and make sure they won't go down with hypoglycemia.
Do you know what to do if in the process they get diahrrea problems? Stress of weaning can bring on a whole kettle of problems.
If you look at some of the posts on Yorkietalk, there are getting to be many Yorkies ending up on Petfinder in rescues or rescue Shelters. Don't breed a pet and add to the problems. |