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SO YOU WANT TO BREED YOUR DOG???

by

Geraldine Janes

MANY PEOPLE GET A PUPPY FOR A PET, AND WHEN IT GROWS UP THEY DECIDE FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER THAT THEY WANT TO RAISE PUPPIES OUT OF THEIR PET.

BEFORE YOU TAKE THAT GIANT STEP ON BECOMING A DOG BREEDER. LETS LOOK AT SOME OF THE REASONS NOT TO START BREEDING

LETS START WITH THE MALE, IF HE IS NOT NEUTERED BEFORE THE AGE OF SIX (6) MONTHS, HE WILL BEGIN TO HIKE HIS LEG AND MARK HIS TERRITORY. THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO OUTSIDE BUT INSIDE YOUR HOME AS WELL. THE MALE ALSO HAS AN EMBARRASSING HABIT OF HUMPING ALL KINDS OF OBJECTS FROM STUFFED TOYS TO THE OWNERS AND VISITORS FEET.

IF THIS HAS NOT CHANGED YOUR MIND INTO NEUTERING YOUR MALE, THE NEXT STEP IS TO EITHER PURCHASE A FEMALE TO BREED THE MALE TO OR TO STUD THE MALE TO SOME ONE ELSE'S FEMALE.

SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO STUD THE MALE TO OTHER FEMALES, THEN ONE NEEDS TO CONSIDER SEVERAL FACTORS.

1. HAS THE FEMALE BEEN TESTED FOR BRUCELLOSIS?? IF NOT
YOU ARE RUNNING THE RISK OF YOUR MALE BEING RENDERED
STERILE, IF THE FEMALE HAPPENS TO BE A CARRIER. IF THE
MALE DOES NOT GO STERILE RIGHT AWAY HE WILL PASS THE
DISEASE ON TO ANY OTHER FEMALE THAT HE MATES WITH IN
THE FUTURE. tHIS MEANS THAT THEY WILL NEED TO BE PUT
DOWN TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THIS DISEASE.

2.  DO YOU HAVE A STUD CONTRACT?? THIS NEEDS TO SAY HOW
YOU ARE GOING TO BE PAID FOR YOUR MALES SERVICES,
WHETHER IT WILL BE FOR CASH OR A PUPPY BACK. YOU NEED TO SPECIFY WHAT CONSTITUTES A LITTER. THE
CONTRACT NEEDS TO IDENTIFY ALL PARTIES INVOLVED AND
EACH PARTIES RESPONSIBILITIES.

3.  ALSO, YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING CARE OF SOME
ONE ELSE'S FEMALE, OR WHETHER SOME ONE ELSE IS GOING TO
BE PROPERLY CARING FOR YOU MALE WHILE HE IS AT THEIR
HOME BREEDING THE FEMALE. EITHER WAY SHOULD SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THE FEMALE WHILE IN YOUR CARE OR THE MALE IN
SOMEONE ELSE'S CARE, IT ITS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CARE GIVER TO REPLACE THE MISSING OR INJURED DOG.

 DO NOT BE AT ALL SURPRISED IF YOU DO STUD YOUR MALE OUT, IF
AT SOME POINT, YOU RUN INTO SOME ONE WHO DOES NOT HONOR THEIR PART OF THE CONTRACT, SUCH AS GIVING A PUPPY BACK OR PAYING THE FEE, IF THAT IS WHAT WAS AGREED, THAT IT WILL BE PAID WHEN THE PUPPIES RE SOLD.

SO YOU HAVE A FEMALE AND YOU WANT TO HAVE A LITTER OF
PUPPIES OUT OF HER.

EVERY TIME A FEMALE COMES IN SEASON SHE BLEEDS FOR AT LEAST A WEEK, AND THIS MEANS SPOTS ON THE CARPET, FURNITURE, YOUR CLOTHES, AND ANY OTHER PLACE SHE MIGHT DECIDE TO SIT. JUST THINK ABOUT THE MESS YOU WILL HAVE TO CLEAN UP EVERY SIX (6) TO EIGHT (8) MONTHS WHEN SHE DOES COME IN TO SEASON.

WE RECOMMEND THAT NO FEMALE IN THE TOY BREEDS BE BRED IF THEY WEIGH UNDER FOUR (4) POUNDS, AND THE REASON FOR THIS IS A FEMALE THIS SMALL MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CARRY THE PUPPIES TO TERM, AND THUS HAVE AN ABORTION. SHOULD YOU BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THE FEMALE CARRY TO TERM, THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF A C-SECTION. THIS IS QUITE AN EXPENSIVE SURGERY AND VERY TRAUMATIC TO BOTH THE DOG AND ITS OWNER. WHEN ONE HAS A C-SECTION ON THEIR FEMALE, MANY TIMES THE FEMALE DOES NOT SURVIVE OR THE PUPPIES DON'T SURVIVE, OR WORSE YET, BOTH MOMMA AND PUPPIES DON'T SURVIVE.

THE FEMALE WHO IS BRED REQUIRES SPECIAL ATTENTION AND
SPECIAL FEEDING. THE BIRTHING PROCESS IS A MESSY TIME AND CAN BE QUITE SMELLY. IF YOU DON'T LIKE BLOOD AND SMELLY THINGS THIS MIGHT NOT BE FOR YOU.

DURING THE EIGHT (8) WEEKS THAT THE PUPPIES ARE NURSING THE FEMALE, THERE IS DAILY CLEANING AND MORE OFTEN AS THE PUPPIES GROW AND START RUNNING AROUND AND ADDING TO THE MESS. SPECIAL TIME MUST BE DEVOTED TO TEACHING THE PUPPIES TO EAT SO AS TO HELP THE FEMALE OUT AS THE PUPPIES GET OLDER.

NEXT IS SHOTS AND WORMING OF THE PUPPIES AND THEN FINDING ALL THOSE SWEET, LOVABLE PUPPIES NEW HOMES. WILL YOU SELL THEM OR GIVE THEM AWAY??

IF ALL OF THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE DARK SIDE OF WHAT YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE FUN, IT IS MEANT TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE DARK SIDE OF BREEDING YOU DOG.

THE KINDEST THING ANY ONE CAN DO FOR THEIR BELOVED PET IS TO HAVE IT SPAY OR NEUTERED. THIS WILL GIVE THEM A LONGER, HAPPIER, HEALTHIER LIFE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE SUBJECTED TO THE RIGORS OF BREEDING.

IF THIS HASN'T CONVINCED YOU NOT TO BREED THEN YOU MAY WANT TO GO CHECK OUT OUR INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT GOES INTO THE WHELPING PROCESS, WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATION:
HTTP://MEMBERS.XOOM.COM/KISSNKUZZEN/WHELPINGYOURDOG.HTML

GOD BLESS, AND GOOD LUCK IN WHAT EVER YOU
DECIDE TO DO WITH YOUR BELOVED PETS. WE KNOW
THAT THIS IS A TOUGH DECISION FOR ALL OF US WHO
LOVE OUR TREASURED PETS!!!!

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