We are all a tight knit group, until we get the opportunity to throw you on the ground and stomp on you for a mistake.
Aint that the truth!!
Or when they assume they know what is best for you or your pets, when they have never met you, seen your pets in person, or even talk to you all that much online! Its funny how people think they have the right to tell you whats best when they don't even know you! Thats the internet for you.
There are a few members of this forum (One in particular pops in my head, but I won't say names) who only posts rude remarks..Nothing positive, or helpful. Just remarks to be rude. Snarky, bitchy responses because they think they are special and everyone needs to care about their opinions. But they are just that, someone elses opinions.
I got jumped on on another forum when I was FIFTEEN because my mom had bred HER dachshund, and she had 6 puppies. All I did was post some pictures up of them, and I got bashed as if I had bred them myself to make profit or something. People tend to be ruder than they normally would online, if they had met you in person I doubt they would be as rude as they can be online.
And I did teach my mom that breeding her untitled, unhealth tested dogs just because was wrong, and now she is completely against breeding (In general, but hey its better than her thinking any dog should be bred!) and we foster for dog rescues. Of course she wasn't some kind of puppy mill, in here lifetime she has had 3 dachshunds who have had a litter each, and then were spayed. She was just uneducated on dog overpopulation. A LOT of people are! I have MANY coworkers who come to work talking about their litters of puppies they have, and I educate them and it still doesn't work (And I am nice when I talk to them about it, being rude will make someone NOT want to take your advice. Being nicer about it, and telling them facts and statistics are MORE likely to work!). And I have coworkers who get puppies, and once they get older they get rid of them so they can get another cute puppy to do the same thing to. I"m not rude to them, I just tell them that full grown chihuahua mix they just took the SPCA is NOT going to get a home, it is going to be PTS along with the hundreds of other dogs that look just like him.
Try not to take anything random strangers online say to heart. Be honest though, why lie?
I personally blame you and no one else for your dogs litter. She needed to be spayed before any heat cycle since you couldn't keep her apart from the male. I know people are against early spays, and want to wait til they are older but if you can't keep her away from males its better to spay a female early then have a litter of puppies. Whats done is done, and hopefully you DO get her spayed and don't allow her to breed again. I do NOT like you saying "Accidental"..you had two intact dogs in your house, a pregnancy is what was bound to happen. Its not like you had a female dog you were trying hard to keep separated from males and she accidentally got out of her pen and bred, you kept these two dogs together all the time...Of course she is going to get pregnant!
The puppies are very cute!! I had a chihuahua and her pups in my house for a while (Back at the rescue) and its a joy having puppies! I always recommend to people who want to breed their dog just so they can enjoy having puppies that they should foster a mama dog from a rescue, that way you didn't just bring in more unwanted animals into the world, you are helping ones someone else brought into the world irresponsibly.