HUH? You have a pet dog now, but you want to make breeding illegal? So, where will pet dogs come from after breeding is banned? Or maybe you want just a very few carefully chosen elite to breed; then you'll be crying when you can't get a pet dog for under $10,000, or whatever high price the rare few avaiable dogs will cost. How about we concentrate first on getting the puppy mill situation under control since we know them to be truly reprehensible. IMO BYBs are a relatively small part of the problem, and most probably treat their dogs quite well. They're just not as selective about their breeding stock as some of us. Some people posting here are way too radical...get a life.[/QUOTE]
Well, Dudley, I seemed to have offended you, I'm assuming you must be one of the in-house breeders I was referring to. The ones who love and take excellent care of their dogs but want to raise a few pups. So they breed their pets who produce more pets and on the cycle goes.
The point I'm trying to make is if your going to breed, you should have the best representatives of whatever breed your breeding, not pet quality. No, I don't want to make breeding illegal just make the people who are breeding more responsible as to what they breed.
You ask where will I get a pet? Just go to your local shelter there's plenty that you can pick from, in fact they're full. Can you guess where most of those dogs come from? Most come from those that you say, "They're just not as selective about their breeding stock as some of us." Some end up with a lot of health issues that the people who bought them can't afford to treat, so they take them to shelters or just dump them somewhere. Yes Dudley, I'm sorry to say, that really happens in the real world but some had rather keep their head buried in the sand, hoping it'll just go away.
I can see you didn't and may never understand, the only way is for the breeders of all breeds to work together to try to put a stop to what's happening to these animals and if you're a breeder Dudley, that includes you.
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