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Originally Posted by blueskies  Wow, should I be offended?  I mentioned several of these things in my first post that I do, and I am certainly not a puppy mill, but I would rather keep my dogs safe by putting them in other rooms of the house when people come. It makes for less clutter and noise, and I know where everybody is after the person leaves. I have also met halfway, but not because I didn't want people to see my home, I was just more comfortable meeting in a public place. I don't think you are automatically a bad breeder or a bad person for doing these things to keep your dogs safe, especially since there have been many cases where people have stolen dogs from breeders or done other horrible things. For me, a kennel is not something I could do, both for the sake of my dogs and lack of space. I prefer to have and raise mine in my home, so as you mentioned in your second post, it does make it quite difficult to have people going through your home and looking in your private bedrooms and bathrooms (where most of the dogs are kept when people come over). |
I certainly did not intend to offend.... These are just personal observations after many years of breeding, visiting lots of breeders / kennels, and calls to take in dogs that have been stacked in crates in a uhall in someone's backyard or left unattended for weeks in a bath tub in someone's "back bathroom". It wears on you after a while.....