| I have literally dedicated my life to the world of the Yorkshire Terrier. From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep, seven days a week. You can always find me up late at night stealing hours from the next day doing research or working on my breeding program. This is a hobby I love that started in wanting to improve the lines I liked and produce my own dogs of show quality to enter into the ring. This is a hobby that takes a great deal of your time and to do it you just have to love the breed and have to goals to reach higher. The strength to endure and the drive to keep learning You not only spend a great deal of time with your dogs but you also spend a great deal of money and time doing research, getting pedigrees, calling breeders, finding photos, finding history of certain dogs and their traits, looking in the farthest corners for old rare books and any writings now matter how small on your dogs or dogs that you are looking for. You spend a great deal of the time traveling and contacting people. You use common sense and your knowledge of breeding to improve on and perfect your lines. To produce the nice show dog is not as easy as most think. It takes the right genetics, traits and the right makeup to produce the perfect pup. My thoughts are that the better genetics I start with the better the results will be. Being a good breeder doesn't mean that you produce the most pups you can, but that you produce the best pups you can. Now there is much more to being a breeder than putting two dogs together and producing pups. There is much more to taking care of animals than just giving them food, water and a place to sleep. Now take the breeder who has more dogs. Animal husbandry has to play a large factor in this. Each dog needs his or her own space as well as space to share, play and interact with other dogs as well as your family. An uncontrolled and unattended group of dogs will turn to the natural pack mentality and bad habits will form, dogs will get hurt or even killed, health problems will run wild, personalities will change and the dogs will suffer. Clearly you must maintain order and assurance to your dogs that you are a strong pack leader and give them a well balanced life to produce happy and healthy minded dogs. Animal husbandry is the ability to provide the best care and conditions suited for that one animals needs. That is for body, mind and soul. In my case this addresses dogs. Each dog has his or her own special needs and wants. One likes for you to hold her in the air on her back so she can watch the other dogs upside down. One likes to play bite and runs after you. One likes to lay down and you rub his belly. One likes to be carried from place to place just to be noisy. One likes to run around and jump on who ever they think looks like a good target for a game of chase. They all like to just sit and have you love on them. All dogs need to be taught rules, boundaries and limitations. Three key parts of their daily living to ensure you have a sound pack. They need exercise, discipline and affection. Just in that order. Owners make the mistake of knowing what they as the human likes or what is easiest for them and not what the dog needs. Teaching should start the moment you bring your dog home, this will prevent problems down the road. So I hope you enjoy your visit to our home. A bit about my thoughts on raising happy, healthy well balanced dogs They need guidance and schedules. They have to be bathed, brushed and groomed. Fed and watered. They need proper exercise, mental stimulation and love. They need excellent living conditions that are suited to their needs and a home that can be kept clean with makes sure they have a healthy environment to live in. They need all the comforts of a home life. They need love, attention and interaction. Yorkshire Terriers are house dogs and like to spend their time with their owner as well as each other. They also need their time and space just for themselves. A proper balance gives them security and happiness. They pretty much know what time it is and what it is they get to do. A routine lets them have a well balanced day. Dogs need to get outside and play. Not just walk around the back yard. They need you to stimulate them with a game of chase or ball. Take a walk with them. Let them wonder around and sniff out new ground. Giving them one on one time lets them share activities with just you and so they have the floor to develop their own skills and explore. This is a much needed tool for their mental development. They also need their pack time so they can play and interact. Dogs love the company of their own kind and spend a great deal of time playing or just hanging around with each other. This builds their skills to interact with other dogs and develop their animal social skills. A breeder should always be looked at as the pack leader and all the dogs taking commands from her. This enables her to communicate with the dogs and make sure everyone learns the proper way to interact and behave. Yes they need rules and guidelines. Yorkshires are very smart dogs and learn fast. A breeders dogs need yearly health examines and testing, proper vaccinations, monthly heart prevention, scheduled de-worming, fecal testing every six months, kennel cough prevention, daily tending, weekly grooming, teeth brushing and more. Lots of research on her dogs, testing to ensure they are purebred, a well planned and strong breeding program. If your breeding your dogs right it is not a cheap job. You have invested a great deal of money, time and work long before you start making any of that back. Puppy mills and back yard breeders either do not have the funds to or care to provide all the things a dog needs. Their goal is to produce dogs to sell, spend the smallest amount of money and try to make a bigger profit. Most are over run with dogs and you can just forget about any type of breeding program. There is no trust in knowing who sired what litter or what male sired what pup. No trust in how good their breeding stock is or what type of health problems they have. Poor living conditions and uncared for dogs create poor lines and built in behavior or health issues. Normally their living conditions are small and nasty. Dogs can go unattended and are left on their own. Many will leave the dogs in what ever container they are in and are not let out. Mothers and puppies get little or no attention. Puppies are taken from the mothers too soon. Mothers and puppies both suffer in this. Most of their dogs are in poor or substandard condition. They don’t buy good bloodlines or research the dogs before they buy them due to the amount of money they would have to spend. Many dogs are just breed way too much, with no care of what litters are produced. These are time bombs just waiting to go off. Reporting puppy mills are the best thing you can do for the dogs. There have also been some rescue groups who have been charged with dogs living in some of the same conditions as puppy mills, so take care in were ever you are looking for your little dog. Being either low on funds, help or the right living conditions for the amount of dogs they take in they find themselves over whelmed. This only makes it worse and not better. Check these groups out well and always go first hand. Brokers who buy dogs from either breeders here in the US or over seas that can be or are from large puppy mills and resale them here in the states for big money. Telling you what ever you want to hear to make the sale. With little or no care of what conditions the dogs come from much less what health or quality the dogs are. They travel to the airport one day and pick up a load of dogs and return another to ship the dogs out to some one not knowing what they are getting. Any medical care cuts into their profit so that is little if they get it at all. Health certificates that are not worth the paper they are wrote on. All Health certificates should be based on testing. Easy to check by calling the vet who gave them the certificate. Most will tell you that the breeder did not want testing just the certificate to be able to put the dog on a plane. Pet stores buy dogs for resale and it is reported that many if not most are from puppy mills or back yard breeders. To know what you are facing you have to do some home work. Some of it will ripe your heart and others will make you mad. Being armed with what is out there will aid you in your search for your dog. Websites are easy to make and can be what ever someone wants them to look like. Visiting the breeders are the only way you will know what you are dealing with and what type of dog you are getting. These types of people know the law and how to get around it. They know they can prey on unexpecting people. They tend to be smooth talkers with little or no knowledge of the dogs they are selling and will tell you to hurry because their dogs go fast. Most want to ship your dog or meet you at a gas station. Some may even think they are great breeders and will let you come out to see their mess assured of the fact you will think they are better then sliced toast. You will meet all kinds. I have. I have been to breeders and show breeders homes with only seeing a couple page website and talking to them on the phone. Once there I found we must be from different planets. Making the trip for nothing is just a waste of time and money. So I hope families and breeders looking for good dogs find my website helpful to you no matter where you find you new family member. This website is worth reading every page and is always being updated. Now I would like to think that in all my years this old farm girl has learned a thing or two about animals. And with all the years I have spent caring for and researching my breed that I have gained some wisdom out of that. Besides just having a heart and love for animals. For me being a good breeder is putting the care and welfare of your dogs first. Keeping to my goal and doing what I know is best. Everyone has a job in life, this just happens to be mine. So I hope you enjoy your visit to my website and you will find a great deal of information, history, photos, pedigrees and details about my dogs. Feel free to ask any questions. My goal in my website is for you to be able to sit down at your computer and get a good idea of what type a breeder I am, how well my dogs are cared for and what my goal in breeding is. I do not ship my dogs and each person must come to my home to pick up their puppy |
| A bit about my thoughts on raising happy, healthy well balanced dogs |
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