It all started when about six months ago when my dog Chena, a German Shorthair Pointer, passed away. After that happened we decided we needed another dog other than my other dog Toby. We were searching online for a long time for what type of dog we wanted. After a while we finally decided we wanted a Doberman. We did more research and we found out it is the best to get a puppy because then you get the full bonding process with her. Then the tricky part came, what breeder should we get her from? We went to multiple dog shows to look for breeders that will have quality dogs and will be having a litter when we wanted to get the puppy. We decided that the wanted a female because our other dog Toby is a male and he can have aggression issues. My dad also wanted a female because later we may want to breed her or the breeder would want to breed her. We finally found 3 breeders to pick from so we went to go see 2 of them.…show more content… She had 6 females and 1 male Doberman, but she was not planning on breeding any time soon so we decided to go see a different breeders dogs. This breeder was in Pennsylvania close to Pittsburgh. She had a lot of dogs and some dogs that were temporarily staying there because there owners were on Vacation. Two of her females were pregnant so we decided we were going to get a puppy from her. About 7 weeks after we were there the two female moms gave birth to there puppies. Racin gave birth to 9 puppies, 6 boys and 3 girls. The other mom Rally gave birth to 5 puppies, all boys. About an hour after Rally gave birth one of the puppies unfortunately died because of the loss of oxygen. There was still 13 puppies but only 3 girls and the breeder wanted to keep a boy and a girl. 2 weeks later unfortunately one of the girls had a brain defect so since we wanted a show puppy she was not going to work for