08/09/2025
💯% true. Wouldn’t have it any other way . Couldn’t have said it any better.
🐾 Do you know how many sacrifices it takes to be a good breeder? Do you TRULY know the cost ?
Being a breeder is not just pictures of cute puppies and pride in beautiful dogs.
It is also a whole ocean of sacrifices that are invisible to someone on the outside.
🕰️ Free Time? There is no such thing.
You can forget about weekends, trips, vacations. At least for more than a few hours.
You can't go to the movies with newborns lying in the whelping box.
You can't sleep peacefully at night if the pregnant girl is worried or restless.
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 to keep healthy and happy!
💰Orthopedic tests, genetic tests, exhibitions, travel, food, supplements, c-sections, medicines, vaccines, accessories, and the dreaded emergency visits in the middle of the night- these cost thousands of dollars 💵
💰 Income? Sometimes it just goes away. There isn't any. Sometimes you are left in debt and... with an empty bed.
💔 Emotions? You learn patience and feel pain.
➡️ When a puppy dies in your arms, and you are powerless.
➡️ When a bitch does not give birth, despite your efforts.
➡️ When you have to refuse a person who "needs a puppy for their kids", 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
🍼 foster mother
📖 a geneticist
📦 a logistical whiz
📷 a photographer
🧹 a cleaning lady
🧠 a psychologist
🛠️ a handyman
💬 advisor to your clients, often for years, which you do happily , as it is a testament to the bond you have built with them!
👥 family and friends ?? Things can be difficult.
- “I can’t come to Thanksgiving /Christmas dinner/Easter because my girl is whelping.
- "I can’t come because the puppies have diarrhea and I need to monitor them."
- "No, I won't leave them with anyone. They’re 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 makes babies grow up healthy and makes you happy despite being sick, or tired.
🐶 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 in the world .
❤️ Respect passionate breeders. Every day they give everything they can, although no one sees it. ❤️
Ps. I give my consent to copying, let it go into the world because Breeding is not only about cute puppies. 🥰
