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If you are wanting a puppy on full registration and only wanting a family pet with the vague notion of having 1 litter somewhere in the future. I would implore you to get a puppy on limited registration and leave the idea of breeding a litter behind you. I've heard people say " I want to breed a litter so my kids, neighbors, friends, parents, or other relatives can have a puppy from our dog. Let them buy their own puppy. Why would you want to spend all of your time and money just to breed a litter for them only to find out they really didn't want a puppy after all. If you have to advertise your puppies to place them are you willing to talk to people that could be representing a puppymill, or puppy broker. Does the name backyard breeder sound like an insult? If you breed the family pet "Fluffy" without doing all of the research, showing and work that goes into breeding a good litter that is what you are called by breeders that take this seriously. I'm sorry to sound negative I just want to educate the public as a service to our Havanese. An unaltered ( intact, not spayed or neutered) Havanese is not an ideal family pet. The males have a bad reputation for marking their territory. Your puppy goes from being housebroken to suddenly marking as soon as he enters puberty. We neuter our puppies early so they never have the surge of testosterone that puberty brings on. Leaving our buyers with a puppy that is much easier to housebreak and one that stays housebroken. Choosing to leave a male intact could result in anal tumors, testicle cancer, unwanted mounting, roaming and unwanted pregnancies. In order to have a breedable female she must go through 2 or 3 heat cycles. She could leave blood stains on your good furniture and carpet. Also each heat cycle increases her risk of uterine cancer, breast cancer, and pyrometria. She also could become pregnant by a larger stray resulting in puppies too large for her birth canal, females can also mark during their heat cycles, or roam to find her true love. So unless you are really serious about showing and breeding it is better to buy a limited registration puppy and love them without all of the headaches of an intact adult dog. It is a messy and scary thing to breed a litter of dogs. I sleep with my females and their new broods during the first week of their lives. I work long days cleaning, making calls, answering emails, going to the vet, grooming, letting dogs in and out, working on my new website, taking photos, training, researching pedigrees, researching health concerns that affect Havanese, driving the dogs to shows or 4-H practice, and worrying about the health of our tiny newborns. They aren't much larger than a stick of butter at birth! I don't worry about the homes my puppies go to because I only place my puppies with people I feel comfortable with. If you are willing to give up vacations, time, nice furniture and carpet, and sleep - keep reading. I don't think there is much money that is profit from any given litter. Consider these costs, food, vet bills, crates, puppy pens, showing costs, the added cost of full registration, akc litter registrations, ofa screenings, yearly eye cerf, microchipping, phone bills, updated computer, and digital camera, camper to take to the shows or hotel bills, grooming supplies or groomer bills, extra cleaning supplies, extra landscaping costs from a litter of tornados running around your backyard, bitter apple spray, starbucks coffee so you can stay awake, extra strong eye concealer to cover dark circles under your eyes, restaurant bills because you are too tired to cook, and new clothes because your best clothes end up getting bleached in the wash accidently with a load of towels. I have saved money on hair care products because I'm too busy to do anything but pull my hair back in clips or a ponytail. I haven't bought hairspray in over a year! Are you still reading. How would you feel if a 2 ounce runt was born lived for 3 days and then died after you had time to fall in love? It happened to us on our first litter. We still miss her! When all is said and done if there is any profit from a litter by the time it is divided by the hours spent I might make a quarter an hour.