Christy walks through the dog-breeding process from start to finish, covering how to choose breeding dogs, health testing, timing, natural breeding and AI, pregnancy confirmation, and whelping.

She shares real-life experiences raising mini golden doodles and cavapoos, the hard parts and the joys, and stresses the importance of mentorship, responsible practices, and considering rescue.

In this episode, I will be talking about how to pick your breeding dog(s). I will be covering what standard breeders are looking for and what doodle breeders will be looking for. So please join me and let’s
 chat about how to find a good breeding dog.

I’ll go over “Why are you wanting to breed?”  I will talk about why I bred. What I bred. And I will talk about the difference between a responsible Breeder and a non responsible Breeder. 

Host Christy introduces herself and shares her lifelong love of dogs and how she started breeding after studying with mentors and a local vet school. She briefly describes her dogs (Bentley, Sophie, Piper, Gracie and Phoebe), her breeding experiences, and challenges like parvo.
In upcoming weekly episodes she will cover why to breed, choosing dogs, pregnancy care, whelping day, the critical first six weeks, parvo prevention, the guardian program, and placing puppies in forever homes. Subscribe and join the Facebook page for updates and contact information.  Facebook: Of Hearts and Hounds

On this episode of Of Hearts and Hounds, I will be doing an introduction of what the following episodes will be about. I look forward to sharing all of this with you all.