01/19/2025
Please follow along......Embark is a joke! As a new breeder and knowing what I knew at the time, I felt embark testing was sooooo valid, so important. It's a waste of money and doesn't tell you super important details!
They change results literally in the dog you've already had tested, results will change.
They don't have genetic markers for many things. One day your dog cannot have this next month, oh it's popped up, something new and now your dog has it. Huh???
The best way to vet your dogs compatibility for breeding is to own your dog for close to 2 years and pay attention to their everything. Their growth, their coats temperaments, does the dog get allergy flare ups easily or all the time, are they anxiety ridden? Not only that but work closely with your vet in how their joints are as pups and what grade their patellas are once fully grown, close to age two. Check hips.
Pay attention to their stools, do they constantly have tummy issues? There's many factors that one needs to take time on and pay attention too. Embark tests is a way for people to say, look a test my dogs. And back then, I was new and didn't know the information I know now. I'm not the type of person that settles. I dig deeper and want to learn and know more.
That's why I only have 4 breeding girls. Because I absolutely will not breed anything that doesn't truly check off healthy and well! And an embark tests or other tests, will never be able to tell me that. Most issues in dogs do not show up until they're a bit older. Kidney issues being one! Have you had a seemingly healthy baby but at age 4 or 5 they are struggling with kidney failure? Has your baby been totally fine and at age 3 they are now having liver issues?
Note that, yes things can still occur. Despite anyone's attempts to breed as best they can. These are live animals, not robots but you want someone who's truly invested in their dogs. I for one doesn't not want to suffer a loss early on, personally so, therefore I do not want to carry that on into someone else's love for their babies either.
I care people! I love these dogs with my whole heart. I adore and appreciate my families. I'm extremely passionate about what I do. Animals are my heart, always have been since I was a little girl. I was the child saving all the sick and dying animals. The broken winged birds thst had fallen from trees, the lost Bambi baby that had no mama anymore, the calf that the mother rejected, that was me! I had alwaysssss saved every single one, the day I lose my first attempt of saving a life was in my breeding journey and it devastated me.
Being a breeder for me is excruciatingly hard sometimes.
But I'm a pour in type of person. I pour into people, I pour into my dogs, I pour into what I love, I just pourrrrrrr! It's who I am. It's what I do. I don't know how to do it any other way.
So trust and believe every decision I make is one I've studied, prayed on and had results with. Same with dog foods! I went with all the breeders recommendations until I didn't and I went silent and I pulled into my own world and dug into soooo many things and finally found a food that actually all the breeders went against. And you know what, no more issues. Puppy births have been better, my dogs weights are perfect, stools are always normal, weights of new pups are wonderful, newborn babies thrive!
Believe me when I say, I give my all into these dogs and their families. I really do.
So trust me when I say, embark is a joke! And I will continue to research and learn the true best ways to breed as best I can. It's a learning curve for sure. One I'm well invested in.
Ya girl always wants to learn and grow in every aspect of life. I want to go higher and achieve more. So I'm only going to do better and better as that clock ticks and my work shows for itself. I appreciate all of yalls support so very much! You've all been so good to me!
