Yes, my mother got two westie boys from the same litter. One very quickly became dominant and I always felt that the other was sad. When I got married and had a house of my own, I took this dog to live with us but he was always a bit reserved.

Just one example of how it can go wrong: Here we go again

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At what age can you start breeding puppies from your dog?

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i just wanted to say that as i am sat on the sofa with a glass of new years wine and my two darling girls i am really glad i DIDN'T breed from Trouble in order to get Stark.
i originally came on here looking for advice as i made my decision whether to breed Trouble or not and got lots of good advice and guidance, i did a fair bit of research and talked to lots of people in the flesh and my main reasons for doing it-having another pup, fear of how Trouble would react to another pup being brought into the home and having the experience-were soon concentrated into buying a new puppy to complete my beautiful family without hurting Trouble, risking her life or causing her distress and she has excepted Stark as her own. So thank you to all the people on here, now I have to get through the op to neuter Trouble which will probably be the most distressing bit for me.

awww they have just properly cuddled up to each other, Stark is lying on Trouble. have a pic from christmas as my thanks to you all (not specifically this thread, just wanted somewhere to say this which might help others making the same decision i had to make.

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Age shouldn't be your first question, conformation, health tests, temperament should be the first things you look into, lots of time to research this and see how a pup develops on and matures. There's no set rules, however, the KC won't register litters from a bitch that's mated under the age of 12 months, nor over 8 years at the time of whelping.

Sometimes the hardest decision is not to breed, I was all set to take a litter from Indie, had her hips scored, elbows graded, bva eye test, pra test and then stood back, and realised it wasn't the right thing to do for her, so had her spayed. I still feel slightly sad there's no little Indie's running around, but I'm very glad I've got her, and she's as healthy as possible

that is just it, but more than anything im glad iv got my two girls and they are happy and healthy and over the moon they have each other. what a lovely end to 2011 Stark has given me