“I felt like I was wasting my time. I was doing everything I could think of to do and nothing was working. My females weren’t coming into heat and if they did, they would have small litters or…

For more than 17 years, Barbara has been a licensed breeder. Much of that time she bred small breed dogs and never had problems getting her females to go into heat. “They were like rabbits. Their cycles were…

“My dogs and I had recently moved and I originally thought the problem had something to do with that,” says licensed breeder, Deirdre. For nine years, Deirdre has been breeding Chihuahuas. But in 2015, she experienced something she…