I wasn't calling you a BYB for breeding the pitbulls, and I never said you had bred Anya. I called you one because you wanted to breed her even though she's a mutt with a bad background, she isn't health certified, pedigreed, titled, etc. I think that's whaty most people were thinking, though it seems they may have gotten confused due to all of the dogs involved. I'm glad to hear that the puppies aren't sick -- it probably wasn't parvo that took Anya then. That's a good thing because parvo has the tendency to follow you around. I am not jumping on you ebcause you are new here -- if anyone came on here and said that they had wanted to breed their dog, I would be angry and feel a need to explain why, even thought the dog is no longer alive. One reason because a BYB doesn't usually just do it once, nor do they get the idea of doing it and it just goes away. Unless they are properly educated they might continue wanting to breed.

Please, if you want to breed dogs, do it properly...Breed purebred dogs that come from reputable breeders. They should be health certified for whatever problems might be in the breed (Pennhipp, OFA, OVC, CERF, BAER, etc). They should have pedigrees so you know what lines might compliment another and how closely related the male and female are. They should be involved in some activity (herding, agility, conformation, schutzhund, etc). And many MANY other things that define reputable breeding. Of course due to your money problems, you couldn't do this for a really long time, because breeding is very expensive. So please, if you ever get another unaltered dog, do not breed it. There's alot of heartache involved when you don't do it properly --- Or, as Dixieland Dancer already explained -- sometimes when you DO do it properly.

I am not trying to gang up on you or be mean. I'm only concerned about the amount of dogs dying everyday because of people who think it's great to let their dog have a litter when they have no idea.

I also think the puppies should be spayed. It doesn't matter if you can't hear (though that confuses me, as you already said in another post that you can hear with a hearing aid), it is YOUR responsibility. Everyone has some sort of disability -- they are still responsible for what goes on around them. If you choose not to alter the pups then they should be seperated at all times. Keep diapers on them atleast. If you can't afford proper dog care then you can't afford to get blood stains out of your carpet and urine stains off of everything the male marks.

If you go to your SPCA and show them proof of your yearly income, they will spay and neuter them for free. I'm sure you can afford free.