Thank you for taking the feedback to heart~ You can spay her anytime but it is best done prior to 1 year.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of alialx2 Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [labradoodles] Re: Breeding --- Thank you for the great information and expertise! I had know idea everything that is involed. If I bred her, it was not to make money. However, I didn't realize everything you mentioned. She was adopted and I don't know who her parents were. She was rescued from a puppy mill. I don't have any idea about her parents health, and I never will. I would love to know more about her background. It would break my heart if she had that Hip condition and I wouldn't want her to produce puppies with it as well. I will tell my husband that we are clueless and we should just enjoy her and leave the breeding to the experts. Thanks again. In [email protected] <mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com> , "Kendra Vestal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to add that just because your dog passes its health tests does > not mean that it should be bred, you must also study the test results of the > parents of your dog and if possible the test results of their parents too. > > HD is a recessive disorder that can be passed down many generations. Your > dog may test out well but because it is in the line it can sneak up and > affect the puppies. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of Abigail Morrison > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:56 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:labradoodles%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: [labradoodles] Breeding > > 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 <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 <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 <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 <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. 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