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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While I agree with some of your statement, I really don't agree that most of the dogs in shelters come from the type of BYB that Dudley was talking about. Not a huge number of people would discard their dog because it is the "wrong" color. As has been the case in other threads, I think maybe we all have a different definition about what a BYB is. There is a big difference between a BYB who breeds unhealthy dogs and one who breeds off-standard dogs.
This thread started out referring to breeders who breed unhealthy dogs....breeding to standard is another subject entirely.
Regardless, each is entitled to his or her own opinion. |