A one nite stand!
 

I was at Petsmart the other day and saw 2 women with an adorable tiny 9 week old poodle. Well I asked if I could pet her and she just gave kisses like crazy.

I mentioned that I had 2 yorkies and I have a picture of Hot Rod in my key fob so I showed them. The woman commented..."don't have him fixed and we'll breed them and have yorkipoos". Can you believe that??!!

I was shocked and just stunned. I couldn't think of anything to say other than, "oh, my 2 have been nuetered and spayed already". She didn't know me from anyone and she was okay with having them breed together. so totally NOT!

Geesch! It just made me so very sad and incredibly scared for that little girl. I just hope that she wasn't serious about breeded her. :(

Thanks for listening.

So sad, and no doubt she will breed the poor girl unless someone is able to talk her out of it. Amazing and disconcerting that a complete stranger would ask you in the pet store.

When I started walking Max, I had a neighbor I had never met ask excitedly if I wanted to breed my dog with hers. I told her that I was contractually prohibited from breeding and required to neuter the dog. She had never heard of such a thing.

Its not uncommon
 

While at the vet with my maltese an older man with hiw maltese puppy gives me his # so that we can have puppies I told him that Im not a breeder he said thats ok theres a first time for everything he was not either so I got blunt and told him his boy was going to be oversized and should be neutered he just laughed it off stupid as hell.

Stupidity has no cure.

I can add a story to this one night stand thread. ;)
I had a lady bring her male dog to me at school and acted like she expected me to take hime home with me to mate with Maddie.
I told her I was not letting Maddie have puppies and getting her spayed.

Her reasoning was she wanted to have one of his puppies.

There should be a law against dog pimping:(

Couldn't agree more!
I'd had Tuffy just a week or so the first time someone approached us asking if we'd consider breeding. I tried to politely tell the woman that he was not what I consider show quality & therefore we wouldn't be breeding but nuetering him & she got totally upset. No way Jose!

Wow! That is just crazy, yet so many people think there's nothing wrong with this. :(

When I went to pick up Bella, I took Puddie along. I knew he couldn't go in, but I wanted Bella's breeder to see that I was taking good care of him. She picked him up, felt him all over, and told me it was a shame I'd already neutered him, because he was a good candidate for studding.

:eek: My BABY!!!! But apparently she really liked his bone structure :rolleyes:. I kinda thought it was funny because Bella had been sold "conditionally", too: no breeding. Not that I had intended to in the first place ...

Please take the poodle owner's remarks as a sign of ignorance ... she just doesn't know any better - yet. I hope she learns before it's too late.

It always amazes me how ignorant people are. Time and time again people ask me if I'm going to breed my 3 lb. little Rio. Um, absolutely NOT! And now that Rio has a baby brother, I'm sure people will ask if I plan to use him as a stud. Again, absolutely NOT!

I just had a similar experience yesterday at the dog park. A guy with 2 (really cute and very small) mutts immediately wanted to know if my Jezebel was fixed. I told him that she had been spayed about 2 months ago. He proceeded to tell me that his male was intact, and they were looking for a small female to breed with him. I couldn't believe it. Jezebel has a wonderful temperament and she's very healthy (knock on wood), but she isn't breeding quality. And even if she were, no way am I going to open her up to that risk, and especially to breed her with something that is an unidentifiable mix. Some people.

One day, there was a woman there with an adult 3.5 lb Yorkie female that she was going to use for breeding, she said that she had found a small male. When I brought up the risks, she said that her small size wasn't a problem because they had already planned on a c-section!!! Can you imagine that? Breeding a tiny and PLANNING to put her through a c-section??? Then someone else asked where she got dog, and she said that it came from Trader's Village, which is a large flea market in the Houston area. The dogs there come from puppy mills! So she was going to breed a very tiny female with a completely unknown genetic background. I feel so sorry for that tiny little Yorkie, her owner is clueless.

Looks like everybody is wanting in on this designer doggy thing...:(

I dont know why people think breeding is so great. I had a cat lose a whole litter of kittens except one that was enough for me

:idontknow If only they would do an ounce of research.

I agree I feel sorry for her little girl if she could be so cavalier about breeding.

I was in the last year on a car show, and one of the vendor had a male yorkie, she want to breed him with my girls, when I told her that they are spay, she was like what a waste:mad: so yep she probably was serious about breeding her:(

Lucy got propositioned too. About a week after we brought her home. We just told them she's not that kind of girl and walked away.

Not really. But even after we patiently explained why that was such a bad idea . . they were still talking about how we could 'get back the money we paid for her'.

That kind of thinking is so prevalent . . I don't know in the world we can ever stop it.

So true, money is a big motivation for people. That lady thought that with my three girls and her boy, had it all made:rolleyes:

That's a sad thought.

This doesn't surprise me at all - I've been asked many times and my answer is always the same. I will NOT contribute to the overpopulation of dogs and with random breeding these days that's exactly what these people are doing.

Also- with small breeds ask them if they're prepared for the things that go wrong - if they love their pet - they could lose them then how would they feel knowing they caused the death ? Tiny dogs are more prone to complications - then the expense if something does go wrong - and the suffering the dog goes thru if things don't go as planned.

It can't be stressed enough that the more people breed - the more dogs die in shelters - I don't care how 'cute' they are - we have a big problem

they may say the puppies are spoken for - All dogs are NOT dream dogs and all owners are not dream owners

It may seem like a compliment to hear that but if someone does ask - give them the WORST scenerio - tell them the stories you've heard and you love your dog to much to put them thru a planned pregnancy - the dogs have no say in the matter but WE do

When I got Bella, my mom, told me I should breed her and make money from it. Uh...yeah right. Like I would make money. I would end up keeping them all. I wanted a companion and friend not a baby machine.

Hahaha, I would keep them all too, then will be just like this:D;)
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...lady-like.html

I guess that I was shocked more than anything. Here was this baby and the woman was already thinking of the possibility of breeding instead of just enjoying her. They had recently gotten her and were shopping for supplies. I just hope that she rethinks it and decides against it, especially since the poodled looked as though she might be a tiny...she had such small and delicate features.

I've never had this happen to me and I hope that I would be more prepared if it were to happen again and I will tell them of the overpopulation as well as the dangers. :(

I am just amazed at all the different stories that have been told. It would even cross my mind to bring in a strangers dog to breed with my baby...it would have to be done the correct way if I were to even think about it at all!

LOL!

"Getting back the money we paid for her" -- what a strange way to view a pet, wanting to force it to procreate to pay its own way. Very distressing. :(

Reminds me of a time when I was in a vet's office (not my usual vet). There was a lady who had brought in a 7-8 week old Yorkie pup for its shots. Of course, I was checking out the puppy and I was disgusted b/c it seemed very sickly and could barely hold its own head up! She was proud to announce that she got the puppy and planned on breeding it!!!! I told her an ethical breeder would keep the puppy longer and would discourage breeding, etc and that she didn't know what the dog would like full grown.... she was very defensive and had definitely made up her mind. Even more sad, the lady had a girl around 10 years old with her who was happily chiming in with her and she was being taught this was RIGHT and OK. :( I was fuming by the time I left and it makes me scared to think of how the puppy is doing now.

I had someone once ask me if they could breed Nicky with there Shih-tzu. First off my sister knows this lady I know nothing about her or her pooch. Second I had NO interest in breeding Nicky in the first place, I have read wayyyy to many stories of breedings gone wrong. Either the male was too big or the female died in giving birth. My not knowing how big or small her girl was Said no. Sooooo the lady sends me an email asking me why not. That she thought Nicky was adorable and with her Mollie they would be beautiful puppies... So me NOT wanting to sound like a witch said... "Do you know ANYTHING about breeding? How old is Mollie, how much does she weigh, is she a pur breed, does she have her papers?" The womans responce back to me was, "Man you ask a lot of questions." yet she failed to answer any of mine, sooo I thought to myself time to get the claws out... so I said back to her. "I know very little about breeding dogs. and I simply refuse to breed nicky just because the dogs are "Cute" there are millions apon millions of dogs that end up in shelters or worse just because someone thought it would be "Cute" to have there dog breed. Nicky means the very world to me, my dogs ARE my children since I cant have any of my own, so therefore when it comes to them and their health I WILL ask as many questions as I see fit, no more or no less. If you don't like that then that is your problem not mine. Furthermore with your lack of breeding knowledge I belive that you too should NOT breed, because she could die in the process of giving you "Cuteness" I would hate to see the welfair of your dog put in jepordy just becuase you think someone elses dog and yours MIGHT make a "Cute" puppy." I HAD to let her have it, sometimes I just can't let stupid go... I HAVE to think of the welfair of the animal. Later she wrote me an email telling me that her puppy HAD to have an emergency historectomy because some male dog got to her when she was in heat, and he was twice her size. I was like OMG I hope he didn't hurt her. But she never got back to me with any info... People like her should NOT be aloud to have animals. UGHNESS:(

That\'s so sad! I hope the little girl was ok after all that. But you did good! Those were important questions and if she couldn\'t answer them then she has no business looking for a stud.

Some people have brains of a fruit fly.. or I even think fruitflies has more brains.. unbelievle how stupid people are.