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Should I let me Golden Retriever have puppies?

I have a golden retriever that is 1 1/2 years old. She doesn't have the long pretty golden coat but is a great dog! She is AKC registered. I can't decide if I want to let her have puppies or get her fixed. I have no kids and my husband and I both work full time jobs. Any recommendations?

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It's totally a personal choice. I have a female Golden also who is 9 months old. We have 2 kids and work full time. I never wanted puppies, so she was spayed a few months back. If I had no kids I might consider it. You could always have one litter and then see how it goes. I also did not want to deal with my dog coming into season and bleeding. We have an unneutered male living next door and I didn't want to deal with him and every other dog in the neighbor coming over.
Get her fixed. Your dog has not been shown, you have not gotten the proper genetic testing and exams, and no quality breeder will offer their stud to you until you have done these things. There is no reason to risk your dog's health like this. Get her fixed and enjoy her as your pet.
Honestly, I do not believe that it would be a good idea to let your golden retriever have puppies even though it would be really fun to have cute puppies around because there is a huge amount of dog overpopulation and many dogs in shelters are suffering and dying because of it. Anyways, fixing pets can help prevent diseases in pets and also help reduce the overpopulation. There may even be a chance that pregnancy might hurt your dog's health. Instead, you should adopt dogs at a shelter near you and save lives.
it your choice,but its time consuming i suggest you dont unless you can spend more time with your dog.
A dog should not be bred and no person should breed unless they meet these requirements: AKC registered, CH titled or been shown in field trials and proved it's drive, passed all health and genetic testing with flying colors, and has a competent, knowledgeable owner who has basic knowledge (at least) of genetics), has a breeding mentor, and knows the difference in breeding lines and can successfully choose a mate that has met all the same requirements and balances out any faults the b*tch has (as no dog is perfect). If you or your dog don't or can't meet these requirements, just get her fixed and enjoy your great dog.
Please don't breed your dog. Did you know that there are currently 2,826 Golden Retrivers listed on petfinder.com that are homeless and living in foster care or in shelters? This doesn't include shelters that don't list on petfinder. This number also doesn't show all the other breeds that are homeless-over 20,000 (yes-twenty thousand!) Labs, 12,000 pit bulls, 7,000 German Shepherds, etc.-just listed on petfinder alone! If you do breed your dogs, there's a very good chance that your pups will end up on petfinder or euthanized in a kill shelter. Please spay your dog and enjoy her as the wonderful pet she is. I'm sure she's a wonderful dog; I've often thought of how wonderful it would be to have another of my dog, but there are tens of thousands of wonderful dogs out there waiting for a home.
the answer is DO NOT BREED HER AND GET HER FIXED ASAP! first, you are not a breeder, you have no business in breeding. secondly, if both of you have full time job, how the hell can you take care of the puppies for 8 full weeks before they go to their new homes? again, please do not produce any unwanted puppies...be a responsible owner.
she's still to young yet...wait another 6 months...i have 2 female golden retrievers ones registered..i'll be breeding both of them in 2011...purebreds not bred by kennel club breed standards is the healthiest...
Simple: No. Breeding is serious business & requires a great deal of research. Not to mention time & money. AKC registered does not mean she is good for breeding. I am not trying to knock your dog but there truly is a lot more to it than paper work. Not every dog lover should be a breeder. Enjoy your family pet for what she is :)
Do you have time? Are you willing to sit up with a sick bitch or puppies and still go to work the next day? Can you get off work to go to the vet when your animals need to? Can you afford it? The amount of money it costs to get a litter of pups to the age where you can give them away or sell them is enormous. Golden Retrievers can have 8 or more puppies the first time out. Check with your vet or an online source to find out how much it will cost for examinations, vaccinations, worming and food for 1 pup, and multiply that by 10. You have to be prepared for that chance. Even Mommy's food bill will essentially double while she is pregnant and nursing, 4-6 months. Once you find them homes, are you prepared to live with the chance that they may be used as bait animals for dog fighting, or sold to laboratories for research, or shot because they "won't hunt?" Golden Retrievers have hip problems. It comes with the breed, as do certain cancers. If your bitch has hip problems, leeching calcium out of her bones through pregnancy and nursing will worsen this problem, and you would be passing the hip trouble on to a new generation. Golden retrievers routinely need hip surgery to correct a painful condition called hip dysplasia. This isn't anything you want to wish on your dog if you can avoid it. Go to www.ragom.org (Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota), a rescue group, and look at the faces of the pages of Goldens looking for homes. Are you prepared to add to the animal overpopulation problem by breeding more possibly unwanted puppies, perhaps destined for an early death because they are homeless? If you have "puppy fever," offer to foster a puppy for your local humane society, or a service dog organization, or a local breeder or rescue organization. Get your beautiful dog spayed, and you will nearly eliminate her chances of getting uterine, ovarian, or mammary tumors,and will eliminate blood all over your furniture on a regular basis, and a dog that darts for the door on the off chance she can get out and find herself some inappropriate male companionship. And finally, AKC registration means that someone sent in a piece of paper and 10 bucks and got another piece of paper back with a gold seal on it, and how much that means depends entirely on the honesty of the breeder who sent in the 10 bucks, because after AKC gets its 10 bucks, it doesn't care. I have papers for a shetland sheepdog who grew up to be twice the size of the breed standard, for example. Think really, really hard about it, and if your husband doesn't agree 100%, think even some more. So I guess my answer to your question is "please, pretty please, do not." Good luck!
There are already enough beautiful Goldens in shelters all over the country. Get her fixed. I assume you have never shown this dog, or have any idea how she measures up to her breed standard. Being AKC registered does not mean a dog is breeding quality. And 2 full time working adults are not going to have the time needed to properly raise and socialize a litter of pups.
Are you willing to lose such a great dog? Breeding is not without risks. Do you have a couple of thousand dollars in the bank for medical emergencies? Its all good if she doesn't have complications, but if she does, it is a ton of money. Are you willing to take back any of the puppies? Everyone wants one now. Some may backout when they are born, others may get the pup home and realize the amount of work involved. Or will you just let them end up in shelters? Here are a few articles with some food for thought on breeding. http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/breeding.html I suggest reading some, if not all of them. If you only read one, read this one So you want to be a breeder- Not for the squeamish but neither is breeding http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/breeding/breeder2.html IF you do decide to breed her, at least look into doing it partly right. Have her hips and elbows OFA'd, CERF for her eyes and brucellosis test done on her and the stud.
Noooo! Do NOT breed your dogs! Let reputable breeders do their thing! What will you do with the puppies? Keep them? With both of you working full time? Oh please. Sell them? Give them away? Hate to break it to you, but NOT everyone wants a puppy! Dump them at a shelter? Yeah, you probably will, at least a few of them. And they will be euthanized if they aren't adopted within a week! Is that what you want? Plus breeding can be dangerous for the mother if not done properly. Really, I don't know THAT much about it, and very few people do anyway. It's not something to be taken lightly!
Have her spayed. What makes her breed worthy? Does she have her breed championship/working titles. She needs to have her health and genetic testing done, which can't be done until she's 2 years old. Do you have a breed mentor? AKC means NOTHING. I wouldn't register my dogs with AKC for the world. A lot of AKC breeders are ruining some of the working breeds. Of course you do know that you will need to have lots of vacation times on the books at work since you'll need to take at least 2 weeks off before she whelps and at least 2 weeks afterwards, Do you have upwards of $2000.00 for a possible emergency c-section due to pregnancy/whelping complications? Are you prepared to possibly lose your dog due to pregnancy/whelping complications? Of course you'll have a legal contract with a health guarantee, and you'll of course have in the contract that a puppy must be returned to you should someone need to surrender one for any reason. Does the breeder's contract that you got with your bitch even allow for breeding? Most have a spay/neuter clause in them. Millions of dogs are euthanized in shelters each year because of unreputable backyard greeders. For gawd's sake, have her spayed.
Get her fixed. Whelping a litter of pups is alot of work and is plenty expensive. It requires weeks off from work and thousands of dollars for very little return.