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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  That's the problem, those who hand them out for anyone with money. In regards to the pet owner (breeder?) having the dog s/n in the first place....hmmm, that gets tricky as it would involve altering them at a very young age. |
That is why I was saying they should be held responsible and then it would trickle down. It needs to start at the top and work its way down. If the BYBer and millers were not allowed to hand off dogs unaltered like they do wouldn't that address the problem? It would stop all of this craziness at the root of the problem. There are plenty of RESPONSIBLE breeders that alter pets prior to their sale. If you want an
unaltered pet then it should be at a very high price. It is all made too easy and there are too many irresponsible people being given the opportunity to reproduce their pets. If a pet needed to stay a little longer and be altered prior to going to its new home or a higher price needed to be paid to own a pet that is not altered that would alleviate much of this debate. It should not be so easy to hand over a dog to be bred. People should not be in the Walmart parking lot selling dogs. There should be laws to prevent this type of behavior. Millers should not be allowed to have hundreds of dogs, shipping tiny puppies to pet shops, to be sold at auctions or worse yet abandon or kill when their usefulness comes to an end. There needs to be some type of regulations to stop all of the over breeding and killing of animals. If it means that good decent breeders are put under the microscope too then I guess that is what needs to be done. They might not be happy but in the long run it will drive the irresponsible BYB, millers and pet owners out of the market. The responsible ones will be the ones left standing and the pet overpopulation will drop.
Or we can do nothing and close our eyes and stick our heads in the sand.
