04/08/2025
🐾 Do you know how many rejections it costs to be a breeder?
Being a breeder is not just pictures of cute puppies and pride in beautiful dogs.
It is also a whole ocean of rejections that are invisible to someone on the outside.
🕰️ Time? There is no such thing as "free"
You can forget about weekends, trips, vacations.
You can't go out with mummas due to whelp or newborns.
You can't sleep peacefully at night if the pregnant mummas is worried.
You can't leave the incubator when one puppy is fighting for its life.
There is no "break" in breeding. Every minute counts.
💸 Money? You invest endlessly
💰 Good dogs are expensive - and very expensive.
💰Tests, genetic tests, travel, food, supplements, c-sections, medicines, vaccines,accessories - these are thousands of dollars 💵
💰 Income? Sometimes it just disappears. There isn't any. Sometimes you are left in debt and... with a broken heart.
💔 Emotions? You learn patience and pain in abundance
➡️ When a puppy dies in your arms, and you are powerless.
➡️ When a dam does not fall pregnant, looses a litter or struggles in labour, despite your efforts.
➡️ When you have to refuse puppy applicants, because you see that it will not be a good home.
➡️ When you sacrifice everything - and in return you receive hatred, jealousy and slander.
👩 ⚕️No routine - you are a breeder, but also:
🩺 a nurse/neonatalogist
🍼 afoster mother
🧬 a geneticist’s
📦 a logistics manager
📷 a photographer
🧹 a cleaning lady
🧠 a psychologist
💬 advisor to their clients, often for years
👨 👩 👧 👦 family and friends ?? Things can be difficult
- "We can't meet because I’m in a whelping window." "
- "I won't come because I have young puppies that need monitoring."
- "No, I won't leave them with anyone. "It's my responsibility."
Not everyone will understand. Not everyone will stay.
❤️ But through it all... it's love
Love for animals, for their lives, for the development of the breed.
Love that makes you get up 10 times a night.
Love that doesn't let you take shortcuts.
Love that helps babies grow up healthy despite and personal sickness or exhaustion.
🐶 A breeder is not a "puppy person".
This is someone who gives up their OWN comfort for the benefit of animals.
This is someone who doesn't equate love with money.
This is someone who lives between joy and pain, and still wouldn't trade it for anything else.
❤️ Respect passionate breeders. Every day they give everything they can, although no one sees it. ❤️
Shared from another wonderful breeder 🐾
