Every breeder has the desire to produce a litter of healthy puppies that grows and develops to exemplify the characteristics of their breed. Unfortunately, this task is far easier to describe than to accomplish. Numerous factors, both reproductive and non-reproductive, influence the outcome of a breeding and ultimately the health and nature of the puppies.

An analysis of declining dog registrations and the effect on breeders and clubs.

All dogs can benefit from obedience training as early as seven weeks and also when the puppy enters its new home.

Learn how and why health problems haunt some breeds.

For those who want to know more about litter size and one puppy litters.

When two or more breeders gather together their conversation often times center on the number of pups born and what might have gone wrong. For years breeders have speculated on why some litters are larger than others. Since most breeders are not trained in biology or in veterinary medicine a review of these questions was addressed.