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12-21-2015, 10:41 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Hughes Springs
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| Overbite in Puppy I'm new to the forum. I just purchased a 11 week old yorkie from a breeder. I took the puppy to the vet and she said the puppy has an overbite. The puppy is registered with AKC. I am wanting to know if I decided to breed this puppy later would it be okay? Or should I just trade it for another puppy without an overbite? |
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12-21-2015, 12:31 PM | #2 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| If you are trying to purchase breeding stock, I would suggest you contact reputable show dog owners and start your search for breeding stock in retired show dogs. You need to be familiar with what is behind your dogs for at least 9 generations....overbites/underbites are easily passed from one generation to another, so you really want to start with dogs that do not throw that....it can be corrected with breeding, but you have to know what you are doing and what lines you are throwing together. Combining some lines is like trying to mix gasoline and water....overbites/underbites are the very least of your worries.....they stand alone just super, but mixed together....you will get a mess. Breeding dogs and doing it correctly is much more involved than throwing a male and a female together.....and you have to be willing to make genetic disasters you produce and then sell to innocent, excited, loving pet owners, you have to financially be responsible for those disasters.....as a breeder, you have to know what you are doing, and willing to financially compensate trusting buyers for your disasters! There is nothing you can do to compensate a new owner's completely broken heart when their new puppy you created and then sold, is a sick/dying disaster, but the very least you must do, is pay for your mistake and the ensuing medical bills for the baby that you sold. Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 12-21-2015 at 12:33 PM. |
12-21-2015, 01:08 PM | #3 |
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| Right on, Yorkiemom1 You pointed out the main points that unsuspecting buyers deal with - not having a good health guarantee from the breeder, experience and testing! I did not know about these when I purchased my first darling Yorkie, but learned quickly and $$$$ later before I got my second baby 12 years later. When I got my second baby (that was a show dog pup that was deemed to be too small to breed by the very reputatable show breeder) the binder of testing and DNA, and generational presentations she gave me just floored me! After reading all that data I immediately decided that that breeder could not have made much money on the sale because she had invested so much preparing to breed this outstanding little girl I got. It is what we dont know that I feel YorkieTalk does such a great job of teaching folks (like me) about getting a healthy pup!!!! Thank you for your candor and willingness to share - you always say things so well!!!!!!
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12-21-2015, 09:19 PM | #4 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 9,462
| Thank you....I really do try but sometimes, when the message is not what is wanted, regardless of what the message is, the messenger becomes the enemy!! |
12-23-2015, 12:34 PM | #5 | |
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And while the Yorkie standard does NOT have a DQ for missing teeth or bad bites I firmly believe it should have. In the breed that I breed we have DQ or disqualifications for missing teeth - overshot or undershot bites - no scissor bite etc. A disqualification by two judges means that you as the owner of this dog will Never earn a championship. This dog should not be bred! Serious business. But the standards are owned and changed by the National Breed clubs and until the YTCA gets serious about bite the standard is and will remain the same.
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