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11-20-2008, 11:20 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 460
| when things go wrong when things go wrong where do you get the courage and hope to keep breeding? I'm really thinking hard that maybe I don't have the heart or the stomach for it anymore. what do other breeders do ? how do you make the decision to go on or just quit???? please give me insight here. thanks. |
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11-20-2008, 11:53 AM | #2 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: in the beautiful USA
Posts: 259
| One puppy out of my first litter was breach and I didn't know how to properly get her out, but finally did...she was not breathing, of course I freaked. I did CPR and finally she came around. She is fine now and 2 yrs old and very healthy. But if I were to have a puppy or mom die, than I would probably not ever breed again. I wouldn't be able to handle that. She just got bred and puppies are due in Jan. Fingers crossed xxx |
11-20-2008, 12:33 PM | #3 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: HOT, HOT, HOT AZ
Posts: 3,150
| I think the absolute worse thing thats ever happened to me was when the vet over-dosed my beautiful DeeDee during a c-section. I just about died right there. I had planned for this litter for a long time. DeeDee was not only my loving girl, she was very important in my breeding program. I had such high hopes. I only had 1 pup out of 4 that survived. I didnt breed after that for quite a long time. I still remember her looking at me over the vets shoulder as he carried her into surgery. Ten minutes later she was gone.
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11-20-2008, 03:02 PM | #4 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Beaumont Texas
Posts: 285
| thoughts on breeding I've posted this before, but I would like for you to read it as well. These are my thoughts on breeding... Every breeder on this board started somewhere…. Let me tell you the story of our humble beginning as something to consider. I had an excellent mentor….. She was passing the torch of 25 years of knowledge and experience to me (how lucky was I?)…. My second litter was due being whelped by my most beautiful dog (not to mention that I was also attached to her as much as I was my children)…. Talk about a textbook pregnancy…. 42nd day ultrasound showed 6 very well proportioned, small puppies…. Delivery started…..no distress….easy labor on the first puppy… then nothing….and nothing… I was prepared…. I had read all of the books…. Not to fear, middle of the day, no emergency call…. We headed to the vet just to be sure (12 miles)….she died in my hands as I walked through the office door…. I called my mentor in horror and unbelievable grief….she said, “you’ll know in a few weeks if this is for you.” …. She said that because I had 6 very tiny puppies (5 saved through c/s) that needed to be nursed every two hours for weeks….I buried my Gizmo where our new kennel stands today and got started with her babies…..I would hardly close my eyes b/f it was time to feed again….two weeks into it, one just didn’t thrive….now I was at wit’s end….three days later one aspirated on the feeding tube….I was done, called my mentor and told her to come get them all… she said, “no, this was your choice”…. 20 or so weeks later of round the clock care, One by one, these tiny replicas of their mom, of whom I had become a surrogate mother, were picked up by new owners, placed under various Christmas trees….and absolutely delighted special families….One to 4 kids, one to a wife of 35 years, one to an only child, and one to new bride. To this day, I still grieve for my Gizmo, to this day I still check up on every puppy I sell… I’ve shoveled truck loads of poop, dried gallons of pee, built kennels, torn down kennels, delivered puppies at 2:00 am on every holiday celebrated by man (even my kids birthday parties which I had to miss)….Breeding is a complete sacrifice of everything else when the moment counts b/c your female is counting on you for everything….If you bring puppies into this world they are your responsibility and yours alone. My mentor made that quite clear to me. If you do not have the ability to deal with the difficulties with the same passion as you delight in the rewards, keep you little girls as a pets….. If you do have the ability, you will know it in a few weeks. Allow the sting of difficulty, regret, and guilt to go away… and re-evaluate your circumstances. I delivered puppies last night from 7:30 to around 4:30 this morning.....those quiet moments when mom is resting and the puppies are nursing remind me how much I love what I do…. |
11-20-2008, 05:32 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Quincy, IL
Posts: 3,668
| Beautiful post I had tears in my eyes reading it...I agree 100% Jackson Gracie Tucker Rosey Abigayle |
11-24-2008, 02:52 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 937
| where do you get the courage and hope to keep breeding? You look into those little babies eyes, watch them taking their first steps, and hold them in your arms... then I see the joy they bring when the become members of their new families
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11-25-2008, 11:28 AM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Southwest Harbor, ME
Posts: 189
| Great post Nothing else to say after that!
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