May I ask why you are trying to breed a mixed breed dog? Do you know anything about genetics? You don’t get a “Cock-a-tzu.” It doesn’t work like that. You get a mixed breed dog. Nothing more. These so-called designer breeds (Labradoodles, Puggles, etc.) are a marketing scam to get a ridiculously high price for a plain-old mixed breed dog.
For example, people who try to breed Labradoodles (Labrador x Poodle) think they will get characteristics A,B,C from the Lab and characteristics D,E,F from the Poodle... every time. But genetics don’t work that way. In very very simple terms:
Puppy #1 may get:
A,B,C from the Lab, and D,E,F from the Poodle
Puppy #2 may get:
B,D,F from the Lab, and A,C,E from the Poodle
Puppy #3 may get:
A,D,E,F from the Lab, and B,C from the Poodle
Etc.
Contrary to popular (ignorant) belief, cross-breeds are a crap shoot and they do NOT produce the happy mixture of HALF Cocker Spaniel and HALF Shitzhu, let alone the specific half that you want from each parent.
The specific breeds that exist today took hundreds of years to refine, through hundreds of generations of breedings to establish their specific breed characteristics. There is no such thing as a “Cock-a-tzu” as a breed, and your results will be nothing more than a litter of mixed breed puppies. They’ll be cute, of course, because all puppies are cute. But Puppy A may be entirely opposite of Puppy B.
You might as well go to the nearest shelter and pick up a litter of random mixed breed puppies. They will have the same degree of consistency as your intended litter.
(Disclaimer for any geneticists reading this: Obviously I’ve left out a lot of details here, including dominant/recessive genes, etc.; I’m just giving a Readers Digest version.)
We weren’t going to sell them. My family wanted to breed these two because, well, we liked both of the dogs and we had some family and friends who wanted pups. Even if they are mutts they would have still been loved (and probably spayed or neutered because most of my family lives in the city.) I guess you could say we married them. idk.
I probably won’t be breeding her again because its too much stress and I worry to much about it harming her. I won’t spay her though because I had a beagle who after healing ran away. We found her at the neighbors a few miles away after hours of searching but she kept running away to them so we let them keep her as long as they promised to take care of her. We usually keep her indoors and watch her whenever she’s outside.
Say what you want about mixed breeds but my last dog, a cockapoo was one of the best dogs in the world.