Sentences with phrase «parents of a litter of puppies»

Thus, knowledge of the genetic make - up of our Bouviers will assist us, as breeders, in choosing the best possible combination of sire and dam to be the parents of a litter of puppies.

The important thing is to have knowledge of the temperament of the individual parents of any litter of puppies.

Not exact matches

The litter of puppies have different mothers and fathers of various breeds — two have a Beagle mother and a Cocker Spaniel father, while the remaining five have parents from two different beagle pairs.

Puppies who chew designer shoes, adolescent dogs who dig up the yard, cats of all ages who suddenly forget how to use a litter box — all of the above and much more can test the patience of even the most laid - back pet parent.

It was drawn to the attention of the meeting that litters of puppies will only be registered by the Kennel Club under the Accredited Breeders Scheme if the parents have been eye tested under the KC / BVA / ISDS Eye Test Scheme within the previous 2 years.

Breeding two Merle coated parents together can result in a puppy being born with two Merle genes which can resulting in the puppy developing blindness or deafness, this will happen to 1 in 4 of the puppies in the litter, statistically.

The appearance of yellow puppies in this litter illustrates two principles of genetics — you can't always tell what the pups will look like by looking at the parents, and the pairing of genes is akin to a roll of the dice: it's almost impossible to predict which combinations will crop up.

Until recently it was a requirement that litters of Bedlington puppies could only be registered under the KC Assured Breeders Scheme if both parents had tested «clear» of TRD within the 2 years prior to the application for registration.

You must be able to meet the parents in person, see where the litters have been born and find out what kind of puppy socialization the breeder intends to do, find out if the breeder has done medical screening on the parents and find out how long the breeder intends to keep the litter mates together for socialization.

The breeder will keep and mate that smaller puppy with the smaller of his parents which will lead to a litter of smaller Chihuahuas.

When new litters of puppies are born into these squalid conditions, they are sold and the profit goes back to fund the abuse of their parents.

The litter's sire and dam should be free of dysplasia and owners must ascertain the thyroid status of both puppy parents.

When a litter of puppies is born, they are quickly sold and the profits go back to fund the suffering of their parents.

Beside health concerns, you can get a good idea of what kind of temperament the puppy will have, as well as the looks that they may have when fully grown, by checking the puppy's parents, talking with the breeder and observing how the puppy interacts with you and its litter mates.

Although the county's animal control office has stopped helping pet owners who can't afford to have their pets neutered, it still offers aid for neutering in other circumstances.The office still will financially assist pet owners who want to sterilize an animal which has just had a litter, said animal control director Frankie Thorp.If a pet owner brings those puppies or kittens to the shelter in Astatula, animal control will chip in toward the cost of spaying or neutering the offspring's parent, Thorp said.

You will also have no ability to view the parents or the environment in which the litter was reared, and therefore can not be confident of the background of the puppies, especially if they are purebred.

Care of the puppy begins with careful selection of parents to produce the litter.

It is important to understand that should only one of the parents possess the Parti gene, then the litter will not have any puppies with the Parti gene.

She decided to ask Marilyn if she'd like to make an even bigger commitment by becoming a foster parent to a litter of four puppies.

Two true piebald parents will produce a whole litter of piebald puppies.

The second you inform your potential buyers that the litter's parents and / or the puppies themselves have been screen for a particular medical condition, or DNA cleared for an hereditary disease, you must provide the original or a copy of the results, regardless of the outcome (positive or negative).

The couple also are serving as foster parents for a litter of puppies left at an animal shelter in Sanford in the wake of the tornadoes.

He was from a litter of six puppies who were abandoned in the desert by the owners of their parents.

The parents and grand parents did not have a murmur.the same parents had several litters of babies and this was my first and only puppy ever born with a heart murmur.

The registered names and AKC numbers of both parents, date of birth of the litter, and the puppy's color and sex should be indicated.

«Robbie and I always considered ourselves to be responsible breeders, having few litters, worrying about placing the puppies in good homes, taking the best care we could of puppies and parents.

Although we always recommend that potential buyers see the mother and father of the litter, the presence of both parents is not a guarantee that the puppies were thoughtfully produced.

The inheritance of structural problems such as hip dysplasia is complex and can multiply through the generations; thus mixed breed puppies in litters from crossbred or mixed breed parents are also potential victims.

Reputable breeders are expected to conduct screening examinations for these diseases on the parents of a litter, and to disclose the results to prospective puppy buyers.

«These dogs are the product of two purebred parents of different breeds, resulting in a litter of mixed breed puppies, not a new breed, according to our requirements.»

The registered names and AKC numbers of both parents, date of birth of the litter, and puppy's color and sex should be indicated.

The AKC numbers for both parents and the AKC Litter number for your puppy must be received by you, either in a Contract or a Bill of Sale, when you pick up your puppy.

Mostly it is a female being bred to a male who is owned by a friend and then the profits are split... The chances of these puppies being spayed or neutered before leaving their parents is incredibly small, so most of the puppies will end up having litters of their own... and the vicious circle continues...

Searching for a litter of puppies from parents that are both accomplished hunters weeds out the majority of the litter options.

The average IR value is 0.25 for a litter of puppies born to full sibling parents from a genetically diverse and randomly bred population.

Then, if all puppies were clear of cataracts, and depending on how many puppies were in the litter, the parent was rated a statistical probability of being clear of the cataract gene....

In a second litter of 10 from the same parents, the puppies will differ from each other and from the first litter to a greater or lesser degree.

You may think you're getting all of these benefits when you buy a pet through a retail store, but most of those animals come from puppy mills — mass breeding facilities with notoriously poor conditions for parent animals and their litters.