Quote Originally Posted by CA Jack View Post
This is true, Black Hand.

Young bitches' bones aren't fully-calcified yet, so they're more pliable, so breeding them on their first/second heat helps "break them in" for motherhood.

They may make dumb mistakes, but they learn the ropes so-to-speak, and it tends to mature them out too.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. I was going to say more flexible but I thought it might sound confusing. But that's what I was getting at. Where as an older bitch who never has had pups might actually be the one with the rougher time than the young bitch.