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Breeding is sexual reproduction that produces offspring, usually animals or plants. It can only occur between a male and a female animal or plant. Breeding may refer to: Animal husbandry, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits; Breeding in the wild, the natural process of reproduction in the animal kingdom
Dogs commonly give birth in a whelping box, a simple box or pen provided to the dam to help shelter and contain the puppies. A person who intentionally mates dogs to produce puppies is referred to as a dog breeder. Line breeding is the planned breeding of dogs with their relatives. This is done to strengthen the appearance of specific desired ...
This category collects information about how dogs breed and how and why people breed dogs. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canidae reproduction . The main article for this category is Dog breeding .
New Hampshire lawmakers state in House Bill 1102 that birth defects and deformities like brachycephaly, or intentional breeding of animals with these defects, causes hardships in dogs' lives.
Designer breed dogs are mixed-breed dogs intentionally bred from parents of two established breeds. [citation needed] Studies have shown that cross-bred dogs have a number of desirable reproductive traits. Scott and Fuller [45] found that cross-bred females were superior mothers compared to purebred females, producing more milk and giving ...
The most common form of sterilization in dogs and cats is surgical, spaying in females and castration in males. Non-surgical fertility control can either result in sterilization or temporary contraception and could offer a cheaper way to keep wild dog and cat populations under control. As of 2019, only contraceptives are commercially available.
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The final procedure removed excess tissue from the throat. Insurance claims from such surgeries has risen 25% over the past three years. Oechtering considers it unbelievable that such invasive surgeries are needed just to repair the basic needs of a dog and believes people should stop breeding brachycephalic dogs.