How it began

Michelle said the magic words "You know if you want to breed dogs, you could stay home". If she had said that before I would have dismissed it and thought she was crazy. For some reason, this time the words were barely out of her mouth, and I threw myself in a computer search in my usual Jane Fashion. Within a matter of days I found exactly what I wanted, a breeder going out of business who had Toy Poodles. Michelle and I made the drive out to look at them...just to take a peek (yea right). Her house was neat and clean with no foul doggie odor at all. Her dogs were all clean and healthy looking. She had 2 female Toy Poodles who were 2 years old, registered, never bred, just getting ready to come in to heat, perfect coats, clean and well groomed, healthy looking, cute as could be, and friendly. "How could it be more perfect" you ask? Well I'll tell you, she also this little boy Toy Poodle who was about 3 1/2 or 4 pounds experienced stud who doesn't mind help in reaching his "target". He is AKC registered, DNA on file, health testing completed. Oh, and he is completely unrelated to the girls who are unrelated to each other. Did I mention the girls were each pick of their litters? Ok, now how could this get any better? I'll tell you how. The husband brought out this AKC registered pretty Chihuahua pair who were just getting ready to breed with each other. The girl was to be in peak season in just a couple days. The boy was long haired, tiny and cute as a button. The breeder offered to breed them together and sell her to me in whelp. My head was about ready to explode. I wanted to take all of them. We ended up getting the 3 Toy Poodles and agreed to come back in a couple of weeks to get the Chihuahua girl after she was bred.

Wow, that is a lot of dogs. But...they are like 4 1/2 pounds each. Their combined weight is, like, an insignificant fraction of any one of the Australian Labradoodles that I used to breed. I can carry all 3 of the Toy Poodles together in one arm with no problems. I certainly can't carry a 60 pound Labradoodle. The Toy Poodle poo's are like little tootsie rolls. Their puppies will be maybe 2 pounds when they go to their new homes.

Seriously, how hard is this going to be?