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Originally Posted by Highlans I am sorry I think you have misunderstood me I am not a breeder nor do I ever intend to be I just wanted a healthy male yorkie, and I think it is a breeders resposibility to produce healthy pups. I do not wish anyone to go through the heart ace my family have been through because of bad breeding. |
No Robbie, I know it isn't you looking for a stud dog to breed. I likely should have quoted MrsH that is looking for a male when I posted my post. My post just ended up under yours but I wasn't referring to you.
And wow, do I ever know what you are talking about with heart ache when a puppy is bought from not very knowledgable or bad breeding. Can you believe I went through it twice before I got smarter?
The first was one I was just buying for a pet. That's 20 years ago now and the breeder didn't know anything about her lines and neither did I. I didn't know that its important. The second one I bought was from someone again who knew less than I did and that one wasn't quite as bad but I sure didn't get what I was paying for.
I loved both of these Yorkies dearly, vet bills for the first one was pretty high. I lost him at 12 years of age. The second did have a pretty good life and did live to 14 years.
Both of these breeders I had bought from were breeding and selling puppies, neither knew much at all, knew nothing about the dogs in the lines of the puppies they were selling, knew nothing about genetic problems or if there were any health issues that could show up in the puppies I bought from them. I and many of the other people that bought YOrkies from them ended up with the problems.