if a bitch has a litter and one of the pups has a cleft pallette what is the likelyhood she will go on to produce pups with cleft palettes and should the bitch be spayed and not breed from again?

I'm not sure i think it can happen by an infection while the bitch is carrying the pups while they are developing. There's a lot of factors to take into consideration because some things aren't all down to genetics, plus it could be on the males side.

Warm regards Susan

If one of my girls produced a cleft pallet pup, then I personally wouldn't breed from her again,  there is always that small risk it will happen again and I wouldn't like to be responsible for producing a poorly pup.

My bitch and dog when bred produced 1 cleft pallet and another litter none. I studded him out and no cleft pallets. My breeder of my bitch never had any cleft pallets...