I would be sure that your vet has documented in their official notes anything that might make it unsafe for your pup to breed/birth puppies. Get those findings clearly documented and explains this to the vet.

Keep us posted. This is very concerning! Did you know this clause was in their?

Best of luck:)

Rather than getting your "regular" vets opinion on the safety of breeding your female, perhaps you need to see a reproductive specialist, who has an extensive working knowledge of reproduction and is much more qualified to give an educated opinion about any breeding issues your female could possibly have. Regular vets 8 times out of 10, seem to think anything and everything is OK when it comes to breeding and whelping, and few of them get "into the weeds" where problems may actually be evident that could nullify your contract......few "regular" vets even concern themselves with measuring the pelvic ring of the pregnant female to see if the puppies are going to even fit through! If you are going to try to wiggle out of a contract, you want professional, competent specialists providing their opinions.......opinions that are substantiated by clinical outcomes.

That is ridiculous!

How detailed is this contract? Does it clearly state who is responsible for the medical bills resulting from the pregnancy? What about if an emergency c-section is required, who is the responsible party? What if you lose your girl to this pregnancy, how are you recompensed? If any on-going medical issue results from the pregnancy who is responsible for continuing treatment? Unless all these things are clearly detailed, even a mediocre lawyer could break this "contract".

I'm assuming with such desirable lines this girl is AKC CKC registered? In whose name is she registered? Do you own her outright or is she dually owned between you and the breeder?

That's ridiculous! I would not want to take care of a pregnant yorkie - I don't even know how. I cant believe that she is demanding this from you - if she wants puppies, she needs to breed her own dogs. What if something goes wrong with your dog, who is responsible for all vet bills? I would refuse but I am not sure what weight the signed contract carries.

Needless to say, everyone is shocked and appalled. Please contact a lawyer and a vet, and do everything you can to have this part of the contract nullified.

Hi and thanks
 

Hi everyone.
Thanks so much for the support. My husband and I will be speaking to a lawyer on Monday. We have also spoken to a friend, Chewy our little girl according to her is going to be on the small side to breed, in her opinion. The problem lies in the contract that we signed clearly that she can require us to give one litter. This is only a requirement if we own a girl. How it was explained to us is that in there 20 years they have only asked this 2 times. We have tried to speak to her many times but there is a language and cultural barrier. ( hard core french and I am an anglophone. We agreed that we would not show her as we wanted a family pet/ companion for me.
As to the question about breeding what we understand is we would take her there for breeding she would be with us till just before birth, then birth at the vets. Stay with the breeder for 12 weeks. I am hopping tomorrow that the lawyer will help and if not i may say that i wont put my baby in jeopardy and harms way for this.
I appreciate all the support. I am annoyed as we were to get another puppy of this breeder in the fall/ winter. A sister for Chewy. I want a Leia for our little Star Wars family. :aimeeyork

oh my, I can't even imagine being in that situation. I wouldn't want to breed any girls I have for someone else's sake. But yea, I wouldn't want to be responsible for all the medical bills for such a thing, either. It may be common in some cases of contracting, but it don't seem right. It'll be pushing it if the pup was given to family or a friend and expect it, but it's worse if it's someone that, for all intensive purposes, won't really have any or much connection with the breeder later on, otherwise.
I dunno, it would feel like handing your own little girl-child over to strangers to do whatever they want... and that just don't sit well with me :(

We have a meeting with a lawyer and our vet today. I will keep you all up to date, and we both thank you for the support and all.
To say that we will fight this is an understatement. I bought this baby to have as a companion a family member. We dont want to show her or anything. She was to be fixed in 2 weeks and we inted to keep it. When we signed the contract there we were told that she has only used the clause 2 times in extreme circumstances. A really nice puppy, or something about she lost a mother so to replace one? One problem in talking to the breeder is a language thing. I am an anglophone she is pure francophone. The contract was in all french, we went though it with our limited understanding.
To answer one persons question she explained the breeding would take place at her place, gestation at ours, birth at the vets/ or hers and then 12 weeks of whelping at her place.

Once again thanks for all the support for us and our little problem.
J, T, and Chewy

What a situation! I can hardly imagine it!

But I am wondering if, during the time you have had this dog and cared for it and kept it healthy (enough for breeding), fed it a good diet etc. has this breeder been contributing to this care. It is not inexpensive keeping a dog in tip top healthy.

Anxious to hear what your lawyer had to say, as well as the vet! Please update us!

I hope it all works out for you. :(

That is bothersome, I imagine this breeder is in Quebec? I don't know what the legal ramifications are between contracts where the seller is in one Province and the buyer is in another.

But google translate can translate for you your contract into English. And as you are located near Ottawa many lawyers are bi-lingual as well.

Let us see what the lawyer says, but be sure to ask her about medical/health reasons as a viable option to get out of the contract.

I am assuming this gal is around 1yr old? Know that both the CYTA and the YTCA do not advise breeding a gal prior to 18 months old, or after their second heat what-ever is the later.

You can goto both their sites to look up this information.

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Ok so... we saw the lawyer yesterday. A nice chap who is fluent in french and English. We also spoke to our vet who advised we wait till second heat before doing anything. But cause of our little girls size would say she would not recommend it. Chewy is small just over 3lbs. The lawyer said alot. But the biggest thing is he think he can get her on the fact that the contract was never formalized ( notarized on either copies despite a spot for it) and that the information is quite unclear as the contract says If the breeder wishes to have a litter it is at her discretion provided it does not endanger the female. So between my vet saying NO too small to young and that the contract was never witnessed we think she will back down. The lawyer told us that this happens oven that. breeders says that they wont ask for breeding rights but then come back and demand them. Feeling far more positive, and that our vet says this si not a good thing for our baby.
I guess we will have to find another breeder to get a sibling for Chewy. Anyone have recommendations for CKC or AKC breeder in Ontario, NY, MA, or NH. We will fly to a good breeder should we need too. But would prefer close to home..

That is great news. I am so happy that you are standing up for Chewy and doing what is right for her. I wish you the best of luck on your search for your new yorkie baby.

That is wonderfull news Just a question have you looked at your gals registration papers, and made sure you know if you are full owner of this gal or a co-owner. I hope that you do have the registration papers. I am assuming this dog is registered with the Canadian Kennel Club. At least I hope she is.

Breeders in Ontario: Durrer Yorkshire Terriers, Rigair Yorkshire Terriers

Betty Ann would be closer to you, but she is semi retired from breeding, but is usually very helpful in recommending good breeders of Yorkies.

Rigair is in Aurora Ontario which is about one hour north of Toronto. You can speak with Ilona Rodionova. www.rigair.ca

Oz Yorkshire Terrier REg'd Loreta Serafina

Vickilyn Reg'd Vicki Hamilton.

www.cyta.ca is the Canadian Association if you go there you will find a link also to rescue if you are considering a rescue.

Let us know how your contract situation resolves itself.