How often should you give a dog heartworm medicine if he already has heartworms?

If you don't know that than you shouldn't be breeding. And..brown? It's black and tan.

You need to have a plan because this is just pitiful and happens all too often. Both dogs need to be at least 2 years of age, you need to have both of their OFA hip certifications, preferably elbows too. You'll need to have them genetically tested to make sure they're both clear of the DM gene, which will be passed onto pups giving them an increased risk of getting Degenerative Meylopathy.

And you can't just pick two random dogs and breed them cause that's just what you have, you have to do plenty of research on what two dogs would be compatible, the dogs have to compliment each others genetics or else you're just worsening the already in poor health breed. If you want to raise the litter than you'll have to find a stud dog..as it's highly unlikely your dog would be your bitches complementary dog. And you have to have a couple thousand set aside in case of an emergency c section, and you must be prepared to care for the puppies, bottle feeding them every two hours around the clock if the mother rejects them.

It's a very costly and stressful process to make sure all goes well. If you don't have enough time or money on your hands to make sure you can handle any crisis, than don't breed. Good breeders have people lined up BEFORE the litter is even in the womb.

If you don't have dogs from an excellent lineage than people aren't going to be eager to get one of your pups, you'll struggle to find them homes, what are you going to do if you can't find a home for one or two? Would you just dump them in a shelter to be euthanized? Breeders often have to keep some of the puppies just because no one else wants them.

Regardless of weather they're 'purebred' or not, there are THOUSANDS of them and yours aren't anything special. If you're not breeding to better the breed than don't do it. Breeders struggle to break even, after many generations of breeding they MIGHT make a decent profit, but that all goes down the drain if there is a complication with a litter or mother.

You are taking a huge risk- your female dogs life, and it's simply not worth it if you're not making a sacrifice to improve the breed. You're only causing further destruction to what used to be a healthy beautiful breed, now they are ridden with health problems in all but the best of pedigrees. Don't breed your dog, lets narrow it back down to the truly genetically healthy dogs and we can eliminate German Shepherds suffering from hip dysplasia, DM and other horrible diseases.

Plus not to mention all the dogs and puppies that end up in the shelter, I guarantee you at LEAST 1 puppy from your litter is going to end up in a shelter, be abused, neglected or bred carelessly- bringing more unhealthy German Shepherds into the world.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.