Before you go just breeding your dog to any old dog, please, please, please do
research on breeding. I have a really great site for you to look at
http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/breeding/breeder2.html that can help you in
learning more about the genetic problems of doodles and how to prevent them.
Are you just looking for any old labradoodle to breed with? (this is a really
great site for just about anything dog related
http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/articles.html) There are doodles dying in
shelters because people are breeding them without taking any kind of
responsibility for them. There are also quite a few young doodles with hip
dysplasia that could have been prevented if the breeder would have just done an
x-ray of the parents and had them fixed. Please don't just breed to make money
or because puppies are cute. Ask the people on this list who have young doodles
with hip dysplasia if they think it is fun to deal with a dog , or worse a
puppy, who wants to play but can't
because of the pain it is in. Are you prepared to be responsible for those
puppies for the rest of their lives? Do you plan on selling these puppies on
spay neuter contracts or will you have them fixed before they are sold? If you
don't have any plans for having the puppies fixed, are you prepared to deal
with the offspring of those puppies? The labradoodles who are dying in shelters
were bred by somebody who was just out to make a buck and wouldn't take
responsibility for that life when it came time. Good breeders take their
puppies back at any time, for any reason. Another thing that a good breeder
does is not make money. They do the testing needed, sometimes on both parents,
and make sure that mom and the puppies only have the best vet care, shots,
wormed, deflead. I have never known a breeder who breeds for the right reasons,
to better the breed, to ever make money doing it. They do it because they spend
countless hours figuring out which two dogs to breed to make the
best puppy of that breed in the world.
I have spent 5 years working at vet offices and have seen so many people who
either spend thousands of dollars because something unexpected happened, or
they have to have mom and or the puppies put down because they weren't prepared
for the unexpected. PLEASE be prepared to spend thousands of dollars, everytime
a bitch has puppies, it can be dangerous and, take it from me, you will never
need those emergency vet visits when the vet is open, it will always cost more
because it is after hours. Here is an idea of what it will cost to do things
right. http://www.godivalabs.com/cost.html
If you would like to help out with the homeless ones, I would love to help
you to learn more about fostering, that way we can save more doodles who will
be killed rather than adding to the problem.
Plus, spaying your dog before her first heat is something you can do to add
years to her.http://www.caninesports.com/SpayNeuter.html
Good luck, I hope that if you do decide to breed, you will do it AFTER you
have done your research, so that nobody has to deal with a puppy with hip
dysplasia or other genetic problems because you didn't do your homework.
Abbie
lx2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking
for a male Labradoodle in the Illinois/St.Louis to breed
with my female labradoodle in approx 2-4 months. Please email me if
you know where I can start to find someone interested. Thanks.
Abigail S. Morrison
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