To Breed or NOT to Breed
 

Hi I have 2 female yorkies which are 1 1/2 years old both their names are Mia and Luna, even though they are sisters the are completly different. Mia just had her 2nd heat and on my last visist to the vet we talked about breeding her, I did a little research on breeding yorkies and know am completly confused in if i should or shouldn't breed my babies, the are both around 6 to 8 lb. i already know I need to mate them with someone smaller or same size as them, but Im scared something may happen to them. the only reason im breeding them its because I want to have a puppy from both of them if I do end up breeding them I just plan to do it 1 time because of the complications they may have. I just want to know if its a good idea to breed them or not?

Get the spayed and don't chance either having a litter of puppies. If just one needs a csection it would have been cheaper to buy a puppy. You don't know what you are doing and are questioning yourself. The risks are just never worth breeding.

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Don't do it. By reading your post you don't have any idea what your doing. Their is so much more than putting 2 dogs together. Just buy another dog if you would like a puppy. I'm sure you don't want anything to happen to one of your girls... just not worth it.

You want to breed them so you can have a puppy. Please get your babies spayed and love them. There are so many puppies and dogs in shelters because of thinking like this.

If you evenhave to ask these questions, it tells me you have no idea what your doing. (sigh) Please get your babies spayed. Wanting to have a puppy is no reason to breed.

Personally, I would not risk my dogs' health by breeding. Leave the breeding to the experienced breeders who know how to handle any complications that might happen. If you want another dog, there are so many dogs in shelters and rescues that need a loving home.

I'm sure you mean well, but please understand that the costs of breeding are much higher than of acquiring a new puppy...and that is not accounting for the fact that you will more than likely lose your dogs Mia and Luna in the process. Avoid the heartbreak and avoid putting your dogs through with this and please get the girls spayed. Thank you for coming here for advice.

Even for a breeder that knows what they are doing, things can go wrong. When you don't know and don't have a good yorkie breeder mentor, the risks increase greatly.
Also no reputable breeder will provide a stud service. You will end up finding a male that likely is not very good conformation wise and you will likely have no idea of his background.
Best advice as everyone here has said, have them spayed and forget about breeding them.

It is good you are researching before just going out and doing it. Very smart. I'm sure after researching this you will realize just how risky this is for the inexperienced breeder (and inexperienced dog going through this).

Oftentimes dogs (and women) go into labor or have medical emergencies at the most in oppertune time. (I used to work in human med on call - emergencies are frequently at 2 am.) Are you going to be able to know when a medical emergency is taking place? Identifying that a situation is about to go very bad is important to being able to save the lives of the dam and the pups. Do you have an emergency vet that you trust and can count on if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, these little dogs have a high rate of complications requiring emergency medical care - which is expensive. Usually beginning breeders have a mentor that is going to be there in person helping them through the pregnancy and whelp. The mentor also has the beginner assist w whelps first before trying a pregnancy w their own dogs.

Just trying to give you some facts to review. You might also want to post on our breeders' talk area. I'm sure the exp breeders on this site could give you more info about the difficulty level of this breed to whelp/carry pups. It's kind of like ppl. Some ppl have easy pregnancies/births; some ppl are high risk for complication/death.

Nothing more that I can add. Everyone has given you excellent feedback.

Welcome to YT. You were smart to come here for advice. I doubt if anyone will tell you to breed your dogs. There are so many reasons NOT to breed dogs. There are only a few reasons to breed dogs. It is better to buy a puppy than to put your girls at risk. It is less expensive to buy a puppy. I with all my heart, advise you not to breed your dogs. It is better to leave that, to an experienced breeder. Please consider the Vet expense, shots, meds, worming, food, and so on. Having 4 dogs is very expensive, I know this personally. If you can afford it and still want puppies, fine.
What about the breeder you got your dogs from ? Do they still breed puppies ? Rescues, Humane Society, or the Dog Pound may have the perfect addition to your family, just waiting for you. Best of Luck, the Just Right Yorkie Gang

My whole dime...
 

to NOT to...IT ONLY TAKES ONE TIME.
The first is dangerous.

1. You are obviously inexperienced, you should post about finding a mentor.
An experienced, YTCA member, AKC showing exhibiting breading mentor-not a hobby breeder or BYB or someone who breeds another AKC showing breed, say miniature schnauzers-not all breeds are the say you need breed specific knowledge for breeding.
Even if you choose to breed another variation of Yorkie (let's say you have Parti females) wouldn't you learn more and be 'improving the breed standard' if you learned all from a respected YTCA member? AKC is the only respected reputable registry in America. Period.

2. You need to learn about breeding, care, conformity, health, training, showing, matching/mating, whelping. All he aforementioned, prior to considering if you can;

3. all prior to considering if you can; afford to breed, financially, emotionally, time wise.

4.You need AKC full registration breeding rights on your females, they should be health checked, certified I.e. OFA, CHIC, CERF and then you need to know their lineage and appropriately mate them with males of the same quality: not just any random purebred Yorkie.

5. You need the funds & support system around you to support the pregnancy, delivery, whelping, puppy training

6. Finding homes-well the mentor should have taught you how to do this, have a health guarantee in place, re-homing clause, how to register your litter, home them on limited registrations, etc etc plan for unadopted pups, returned pups, sick pups.

7. I think every breeder should first volunteer at rescue & animal control for their own education prior to breeding.

Here is a post from someone that has.. And it was a success. But that being said I have since watched and read so much about puppymills. This has changed my mind totally as if you go watch some u-tube videos it will make you cry.. I knew they exsisted but never gave it much thought. And I was like oh yorkies don't end up that way Oh how wrong was I. There are yorkies in shelters and being destroyed daily. Puppies that are sick and just left to die. Mom and dads who are not worth feeding or taking care of. I can go on and on. I am lucky to have one pup from my female but in the future I will look into rescue. The pup you save or older dog will be so happy you did. And you do not risk your females life. This is just my thoughts.
You are doing the right thing by learning as much as you can first..