I am waiting for chihuahua puppies to be born.?

Question

I called the breeder she said her dogs due date was Valentines Day. I am going to purchase a puppy from her. She told me to contact her at the end of the month she'll tell me how many there are and the colors. But I really want to know if they were born. I talked to her on Monday. Should I call her today or wait till the 28th. Would it look bad if I called her today?

Well JR for your information I have adopted many dogs from pound including the husky/lab I have now. My mother also has always gotten dogs from out local shelter. SO you TELL me how me wanting a Chihuahua when there isn't ONE with in 1000 miles from here in a shelter IS KILLING all THOSE dogs.

Answer 1

Sure, why not call her today! She may not know the colors just yet because their coats do change quite drastically before they are ready to be weaned. My chi is now 3 months old and when she was born she was very dark, almost black. But now she's mostly fawn colored and I'm very happy with that. A word of advise...if the breeder gets upset with you asking questions then you might want to step back and re-think about getting a puppy from this breeder. Go ahead...you're entitled to ask as many questions as you can!

Answer 2

I sent my breeder an eMail so as not to interupt her day.
Tell her to notify you by eMail as soon as they are born and to send pix on the internet so you can make the first choice of the litter. To just tell you to call at the end of the month is strange. She must not be a true breeder, but someone who just happens to be having puppies. Think about if you really want to do business with this person. If you wait two more weeks after the babies are born, the best will be taken already. These dogs have little teeny litters, maybe even one or two.

Answer 3

The breeder should be happy to tell you if the puppies are here and what colors and sexes there are. She may not want you to visit the pups until they are a little older. If she has a computer and the internet, she should be happy to send you pix of the puppies. Call her and find out what is going on with the puppies.

Answer 4

You have to remember that a small dog needs just as much discipline as a Great Dane, that he shouldn't be allowed to get away with bad behavior just because you think it's "cute" because it's not. Chihuahua's and most tiny purse size breeds are carried everywhere, they are babied because they are so tiny and most of all they are coddled and never given rules, boundaries and limitations, and because of that they become unhappy, aggressive little monsters. I'm not saying you can't coddle but he must be corrected when he behaves inappropriately or exibits a behavior that you wouldn't tolerate in a large breed dog. He must not be allowed to snap at people or become possessive or even become pack leader, that's where the problems come in later down the road. There's nothing wrong with allowing him to sleep in your bed but he must know that this is YOUR bed and not his. The minute he growls at you for getting into bed off he goes and on the floor he sleeps from that point forward. You must be your dogs boss, not his buddy, not his play thing, not his best friend but his pack leader and his boss. He must respect you above everything else and he must also respect your space and give it to you. Affection is on your terms not his, if he yaps and you pick him up he's learned yapping gets him attention, if he nuzzles you while you're busy and you pet him or give attention guess what? If you don't like a behavior ignore it and give him no attention, he growls or snaps at you while playing, stop and walk away, he's on your lap and someone sits down and he growls and snaps guess what, on the floor he goes and you ignore him. Ignoring a dog is punishment to them. Pay attention to when you are giving him any sort of attention, even NO, OFF, DOWN, STOP, AH AH, and eye contact are all forms of attention, they are negative attention but attention none the less. So when you give your dog attention what is he doing at that very moment? Is he being good? is he being quiet or playing nicely? those are times to give attention, not when he's jumping up, yapping loudly, pooping on the floor, biting your hand, chewing your shoes, destroying the carpet, rummaging in the trash, those are times when he gets NO attention, you simply either redirect him to a behavior you can reinforce or you ignore remove the object and go about your business. Remember, a behavior reinforced will be repeated [this goes for bad behavior too] a behavior not reinforced [ignored] will stop. He can go outside to do his business in your back yard without having all of his shots, what he cannot do is be around other dogs or go to public parks where dogs go without having all his shots, so get him outside to potty because Chi's are notoriously difficult to potty train and if you don't start now you'll be spending the next 15 years cleaning up pee and poop from your rug.

Answer 5

just call her and ask her if the mom is doing ok and ask about the birth. Making her think you are interseted in the whole event won't bother her. At the same time, you can then start talking about the pups, but i would wait a day or two. Since valentines day was only wednesday.

Answer 6

Its good to be enthusiastic but its also not so good to hassle the breeder. I probably wouldnt be able to wait till the 28th either but i would think if she said to wait until the end of the month then late next week would be ok.

Answer 7

You can call her, but she probably wanted you to wait and make sure that they all make it, raising pups is hard, and sometimes you can loose some within the first couple of weeks no matter what you do. I'm sure she would still be happy to help you though.

Answer 8

If she is a good breeder she shouldn't have a problem speaking with you

Answer 9

Aggravate the breeder all you want. You and them are the reason all these had to be rescued from their death

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Answer 10

You should call her and ask just in case. im sure she wouldn't get mad!