This is where I will be a little nasty. Bitches generally have 2 heat cycles a year. Unless you plan on having two females alternating litters, breeding one female every cycle is nothing short of backyard breeding and pretty darn close to a puppy mill. And it doesn’t give you any idea of how the pups turn out either.
Your whole ‘creating life’ angle, quite frankly, is scary.
I have owned Dobermanns for 40 years.
I obviously am mad for the breed.
I have owned some exceptional dogs, including the two I now have.
I often think how wonderful it would be if only I could have “a little part of them with me” forever.
But I have never and will never breed a litter.
There are plenty of them out there when I want another and far too many in rescue.
Not far from me, over the WV line, are tons of backyard greeders who pump out puppies from worn out bitches, heat after heat after heat.
The pups are unhealthy because their mothers are depleted.
The uniformed people who fall in love with them soon find out that they have bought heartbreak.
*If* I showed and titled my dogs and they were of such incredible quality that surely, they would add something new or improved to the breed, *maybe*.
But I don’t.
So I won’t.
I absolutely, positively would never breed “UKC” dogs.
I can understand the desire.
There have been a few that I would give anything to have had a pup or two from, because I loved them *so* much.
But what of the other 4, 5, 7 or even 10 pups that I could not keep for my own?
Having brought them in the world, I would feel responsible for them, for the entirety of their lives.
I could not bear that even one of my beloved dog’s babies was living with abuse, hunger, cold, or mistreatment.
This is where I will be a little nasty. Bitches generally have 2 heat cycles a year. Unless you plan on having two females alternating litters, breeding one female every cycle is nothing short of backyard breeding and pretty darn close to a puppy mill. And it doesn’t give you any idea of how the pups turn out either.
Your whole ‘creating life’ angle, quite frankly, is scary.
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I have no intention of breeding each heat. This is your issue not mine.