There is no room for trials and errors because once a genetic carrier specimen is bred and produces
a whole litter of puppies, the potential for this disease is now multiplied.
Sometimes, the auctioneer puts one dog up for bid, and other times,
a whole litter of puppies will be on the table.
Unlike having one child, dogs have
a whole litter of puppies that will need to be observed and assessed individually over the next months.
If you are not willing to take care of
a whole litter of puppies for the rest of their lives, DO NOT allow your dog to breed.
Not exact matches
If possible, visit the
whole litter to compare the personalities
of the
puppies, meet the mother, and see the conditions in which the pups were born and raised.
It is almost impossible to get a fading
puppy to survive, and you can lose a
whole litter to fading
puppy syndrome, the death
of even one
puppy can be heart wrenching.
Many
puppies sold in pet stores come from
puppy mills, which are horrible breeding operations where dogs are kept in cramped, filthy cages their
whole lives, deprived
of adequate food, attention and veterinary care, and forced to give birth to
litter after
litter of puppies until they are too old, ill or injured to continue.
Two true piebald parents will produce a
whole litter of piebald
puppies.
Puppy mill dogs notoriously live in cages for their
whole life, never getting to run on grass, never getting any kind
of loving attention, usually never receiving veterinary care, and giving birth to
litter after
litter of puppies from the age
of six months on.
However no dog is perfect, and rarely does a
whole litter consist
of all show prospects, so we occasionally have pet
puppies available.
A: A successful breeding, to me, is getting a
litter of puppies of which have almost identical characteristics; the consistency is seen as you examine the
whole litter.
The
puppies were too young to be able to give them a preventative vaccine, but none
of them ever got sick, and the
whole litter stayed healthy and safe.