Yep you may be new but your instincts are right. Everything I've been told here or read about says force feeding is not the option to go to unless it must be done and then only by a very very experienced person.

Quick question, why would one puppy mess up a @@@@@'s "stats". How awful to allow a healthy puppy to die for any reason. If you breed anything you should breed with morality as far as I'm concerned and yes this is one of my pet peeves. I don't care if it's your dog under the porch, the rat in the cage in your livingroom or whatever - you don't allow reproduction unless you do it with an eye to the wellbeing of the animal and it's offspring and with the ability to afford to raise and find owners for all offspring produced. Yes I know it's about money often times and breeding is a business but it steams me when I see anyone that disposes of baby animals that didn't need to be born at all if the owner had a whit of sense or worse yet owners that breed unsuitable adults just because they want a certain "look" whether or not the offspring is genetically stable or will eventually suffer from genetic disease/disability.

Okay I'm done venting and I do apologize if I sounded off a bit much there and went off topic in this thread. (Personally Christie I'd have smacked that so called breeder or at least very much wanted to!)


~~Jo~~