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BTW I have been to the shelter, but most of them have health problems mainly heartworms and I can not take a pet on with such problems as that. As I am sure that others feel the same way when they go to one. When you buy from a breeder at least you get a little piece of feeling like you might get a non-aggressive, healthy pet. But dogs are like children, you don't know what weak genes they might have. My son has asthma, where did that come from? My husband nor I have asthma, but someone did most likely. Also I have a lost of hearing and do have to wear hearing aids, doctors stated mine is hereditary but no one knows from where.
Hope I didn't offend anyone
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I would agree with you on the health of a animal at the shelter, but your going to get any risks of health problems whether its from a BYB or a reputable breeder or from the shelter whether the animal is pure or crossed. One never knows when a problem uprises, I once purchased a yorkie pup and raised it to just over a year old and it became very ill, so ill it eventually died. I had taken it to the vet and it ended up with a Liver shunt, even thou I put him on Milk Thistle to help with his liver, but maybe if I had know he had this early then maybe the M-Thistle would of help even more. He still lived for a few months after he was diagnosed, but when I ? this with the reputable breeder, their response was....they had no known issues in the bloodline of liver shunt. So I guess what I'm trying to say is its always a unknown issue of genetics and you take what comes along and deal with it....JMO
Also, I just want to say sometimes that BYB that only raises a litter here and there, once a year or every few years....isn't all that bad, and I don't see where people can label them as "BAD", I would prefer to buy from a small breeder who has quality not quanity...
So if you have BYB and then PUPPYMILLS....what do you call the person in the middle that is breeding dogs???