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If you don't know, you shouldn't be breeding them! Do you know how many dogs will have to die just so you can breed more, without the knowledge that you need to do so? I'm not going to give you information about that. This is something you think about before you wrecklessly breed more unwanted dogs into this overpopulated dog world. Do your research please! No one here is going to help a backyard breeder.
Backyard breeding is the worst thing you can do. Breeding dogs is more than just getting a male and a female together and hoping to get puppies. In order to be a legitimate, caring, good breeder, you have to do your research, pay for testing for both the male and the female and many other things.
Educated legitimate breeding costs alot of money, because the breeder cares about the breed of the dog and the blood lines being passed on.
You can't even spell pregnant, maybe that's a sign that you shouldn't be breeding.
Please don't do it, there are enough puppies being born to backyard breeders and puppy mills, millions of dogs are killed each year because people who shouldn't be breeding are.
Also, what's with everyone wanting to breed dachshunds? That's all we're getting lately.
I have two mini Dachshunds breeding for the first time, How do I know the female may be pregnect?
Just the rolling of the eyes tells me that you don't know what in the world you're doing. I hope your female isn't "pregnant," and you have the compassion within you to get your dogs spayed and neutered. Do you know about the increased health risks to your dogs if you don't? Probably not. They have a higher risk of cancer just to name one, amoung many other health problems. Please do the "right" thing!
There are far too many homeless dachshunds out there, and sadly twice as many people wanting to breed them! The last time I visited the humane society there were 6 purebred dachshunds there, one of which had been purposely lit on fire. The poor dear was so sweet and loving. It never ceases to amaze me how dogs can still love us humans after something like that is done to them, and how any creature is capable of the viciousness to do such an act to any living creature. Breeding thoughtlessly is almost just as cruel. You put the mother through the strain of pregnancy and birth and guarantee the deaths of others. Some shelters still even use heart stick euthanasia! Yes that's right, they stab the dog in the heart. No, its not kind, or a gentle way to go. In fact here,s a little true story for you.
In the words of Gabby: My name is Gabby and I was dropped off at the Rushville Indiana Animal Shelter because my owners didn't want me. I remember that day like it was yesterday. My person grabbed my leash and collar and walked me to the car. I was soooo excited! I was going to get to go on a car ride!! Yippie!! We drove up one street and down the other. I had my head sticking out the window with the cold winter breeze blowing my ears up. And then it happened. I saw this run down shack of a building with the words "Animal Shelter" written on the side with a big white box setting outside the door. I asked myself, "What is an animal shelter"? I soon found out and little did I know that big white box was going to be where they threw my body after they killed me.
I lay four days under a pile of other dead animals, no food or water. Then I saw a bright light and for a minute thought I was going over Rainbow Bridge to find peace at last. Instead it was my hero, Jamie Glandon, who came to rescue me, give me a bath, warm me, hold and comfort me until I quit shaking, and take me to the doctor.
Gabby is a shepard mix was euthanized on Monday November 12. Four days later shelter worker Jamie Glandon went into the walk in cooler to dispose of a body, when Gabby raised her head. Buried neck deep, in a barrel, under other dead animals.
Jamie immediately removed Gabby from the cooler and called the Head Dog Warden, Jack Hill, she was told to take the dog to a local vet and have her euthanized again. Jamie refused, instead phoned the vet to have Gabby examined. Gabby now is safely into rescue and under veterinary care.
Jamie has been placed on administrative leave for her courageous and compassionate act. She could lose her job and face potential criminal charges, all for saving a puppy's life.
It gets worse. This is the third failed euthanasia reported at the shelter since September. First, a border collie who had to be euthanized three times before death resulted. Second, a litter of 3 black lab puppies had to be euthanized multiple times before death resulted.
The euthanasia procedure is INHUMANE. Instead of finding a vein, as a veterinarian would do, the dog instead is injected directly into the heart. There is no sedation given, and death is slow and painful, the animal fully aware. In the two previous instances of failed euthanasia the dogs weren't even given the dignity of being removed from the piles of other dead animals, simply injected where they lay.
Silver, any living, breathing, caring, compassionate, dog lover that could read that without getting nauseous, and tears running down their face, and realizing that backyard breeding is WRONG, is someone that should not have the "right" to own a dog period! It makes me so damn mad and just sick!
I have neighbours at the end of the block from me, and I've tried everything I can, short of breaking the law to stop what they are doing. They are breeding dogs like crazy. They are trading them for drugs. I've called the police, animal control, SPCA, every agency I can think of, and the next week they have got new dogs, and they are breeding again!! I'm so angry that this is happening in my own neighbourhood, and I can't do anything to stop it.
Maybe I do have to go outside of the law, and just go and rescue (steal) these poor dogs, in order to put a stop to it! Our temperatures have gotten down as low as -43 degrees. (FYI, same temp in Celcius and Farenheit) The dogs are left outside. I've reported them many times, and nothing ever seems to happen. I don't know why they haven't been charged with animal abuse!
The problem is people are ignorant, or they just don't care. Often they lie to themselves. "I'll make sure MY puppies go to good homes. MY puppies will never end up in the pound. They ignore the fact that even if they are right, that just means another puppy is going to take your puppies place. Because they bought your cuddly puppy, they didn't adopt the other, and it costed that puppy its life. Too bad no town would ever allow a billboard with the images of barrels of dead puppies and dogs from the pound, caption like "This happens every time your dog has puppies." It would make anyone sick who looked at it, but just maybe that's what it would take. See you can push words out of your mind, but images stick with you forever.
I am the dachshund breeder for first time, my dogs are papered and come from a long line of beautiful mini dogs. However, this is my first time breeding and was just getting imput from other breeders. If everybody neutered their dogs It could end there population. I am not a puppy mill I have a beautiful home and clean surroundings for the dogs. They are very loved and already have people who want a puppy. They are not the most expensive dogs to buy. I'm wanted to try it and see how successful this is. And I am very involved with the SPCA
So you are saying you want this to be a lucrative investment for you. All dogs are beautiful! But DO remember that other dogs have to die, because your dogs are cute. If you are involved with the SPCA, you should know how many dogs are homeless and have to die. If you love your dogs, you will not let another dog die for them. When you hug your new puppy at night, do you say to her, I loved you soooo much that I killed another, just so I could have you, and you could have more? Having a beautiful home, clean and loving surroundings, does not mitigate the fact that you are breeding more dogs without a license or knowledge to do so.
I'm not trying to be mean here, I'm just sticking up for the voiceless defenseless dogs! They don't have a voice, so I have chosen to speak for them. I know if they could speak, they would beg you not to let their friends die for them.
The dogs you have may be papered, and I'm sure they are beautiful, but you still have to get their DNA tested, and be a licensed breeder. There is alot of cost involved if you want to do this in a responsible way. You don't have the knowledge to be doing this in the responsible manner.
What are going to be your criteria when "selling" these puppies? Are you going to have a stipulation that they are spayed or neutered at the age of 8 months, or they will be taken back? Do you know the cost of initial shots, or what to do if one of the puppies contract parvo? Do you know the symptoms of that disease and are you prepared for that? Have you thought ahead of time about what you contract will include to ensure the safety of these puppies? Do you know what to do when the mother gives birth and has problems? Do you know what to do if a pup is stillborn, or born with a defect?
I could go on and on. I can tell from your question that you really don't know any of these things, and therefore should not be breeding. Your SPCA will tell you the same thing. They are low on funding because of irresponsible and ill-informed breeders such as you. They don't have the funds to feed them, the room to put them, the funds to vaccinate them. So they have to KILL them! Everyone that is thinking of breeding more dogs into this world should have to watch a dog be put to death.
Please read this link...and I hope you watched the other I posted. If not, I will post it again, to make it easy.
By the way, did you take your dog to the vet? 8 months old is too young to have a litter, and the health of the puppies born to such a young female could be of great risk to your dog as well as her young!!
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