Before deciding to breed your female dog there are some positive and negative considerations that owners should consider. Breeding your dog is not an inexpensive or easy task if you are seriously planning on making the best possible selection of a male dog. There are serious health considerations with regards to breeding dogs that should be discussed with your vet and family members before making the final decision.
Drawbacks To Breeding Your Dog
Breeds have their own unique issues when it comes to breeding. Below are some of the general concerns that can arise with any breed:
·Cost of stud services. For a championship bloodline it can be several hundred or even thousands of dollars to have your female bred to a purebred male.
·Potential health risks. There is always the possibility that the female can be injured during breeding, or may develop life-threatening conditions during the pregnancy. Female dogs can die during delivery if they are left unsupervised and there is a complication.
·Additional vet expenses. The female may require additional trips to the vet or even help with birthing or whelping the puppies. These vet bills can range between the cost of a check-up to several thousands of dollars depending on the size of the dog and the troubles they experience.
·Health issues with the puppies. If there are health issues with the puppies the owner of the female is usually responsible unless there have been other arrangements made prior to the birth. Again, these can be minor or they can be very costly.
·Vaccinations and feeding. Not only will the female require more and higher quality feed throughout her pregnancy but the puppies will also require vet visits and high quality food. For the larger breeds the food can be very costly, and for any breed the vaccinations and vet visits are critical and are an additional cost.
·Ongoing health issues with the female. Female dogs that have had a litter of puppies are much more likely to develop ovarian and breast cancers than spayed females that have not had a litter.
Positive to Breeding Your Female
There are positives as well to breeding your female. Helping develop a line of healthy and breed standard puppies is very rewarding. Finding good homes and families for the puppies is a great opportunity to share the breed of your choice with caring and loving individuals.
In addition breeding is a way for kennels and breeders to seek to develop championship lines. There is increased awareness of the kennel if one of the puppies becomes a champion dog.
For most individuals making money off of puppies is simply not realistic. By the time that you consider the expenses of breeding and caring for the females the price of the puppies does not cover the expenses of raising them. Careful consideration of the options for breeding is important before deciding if this is right for your dog or not.
Kelly Marshall
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Pros and cons of breeding your chihuahua?
I have a baby chihuahua girl, she is only 12 weeks old at the moment and at 6 months the decision of de-sexing or not. I haven’t decided yet so I would like to know the pros and cons of breeding your chihuahua and whether its better to de-sex or not.
Thanks
There is a high risk of the female needing a c-section. Especially if the male is larger than the female. When breeding Chis you need to make sure the male is smaller than the female.
By having your dog spayed you will reduce the chance of mammary (breast) cancer in your pet by as much as 97% over their lifetime. The chance of other reproductive cancers (uterine, ovarian, mammary) and uterine infection is eliminated in spayed animals.
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Chihuahuas are the most over bred dogs in the world. And most of the time the poorest bred. The shelters around are over loaded with chihuahuas, and in the US they are shipping them from one state to another in hopes of finding homes for them.
I am sorry to say but my advice is to spay your dog.
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Unless you are into showing, and then moving on to develop a good bloodline, then the cons are the only thing about this! Get your b itch spayed as soon as you can (hopefully before her first season, but talk to your vet about that) and enjoy her for the pet she is, first and foremost.
If you really wanted to think about breeding responsibly, you would have looked for the best b itch you could get your hands on (and wouldn’t buy at 12 weeks, as it’s almost impossible to know how a puppy will turn out, as an adult and whether she’d be worthy of being bred from). You’d get out there and show her, for confirmation that you do have something worth becoming your foundation b itch. I would never put anybody off breeding, provided they put their time in, learn all there is to learn about breeding, and so on.
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I have nothing to add to the already excellent answers given by everyone above, but would just like to post to say that I totally agree with all that has been said.
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Well, unless she has full AKC registration, you plan to show in conformation events, and do all the required genetic screenings, you are better off simply spaying her. Chis often need costly c-sections and there is no point in bringing more poorly bred puppies into the world.
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