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Originally Posted by ziggy925  I want what's best for the dog and I want a good pet, too. That is absoultely number one to me. I must admit, however, that if I could make a couple of bucks breeding him, as long as it didn't harm him in any way, what's wrong with that?
Did you tell the person you got your dog from, "How dare you charge money for this dog. What kind of a horrible person are you?"
I just went to the store and spent a small fortune on this little guy. I didn't give the manager a hard time for trying to make a profit off of my dog.
He's sleeping right next to me now, and I wouldn't let anyone harm him for a million bucks. You make me sound like a terrible person and I'm not.
He's not going to be shown, and the thought of breeding him just crossed my mind. That's why I'm here asking questions. I'm new to this, and breeding him may make "him" happy but make my life miserable.  |
The idea that you're going to come out with a profit by breeding your own dogs... its a myth. Unless you're going to become a lard scale breeder - you're going to spend a whole lot more then you'll ever get from sales. The only difference to this would be if you didn't do this right and didn't do all the testing and health checks that you should.
I can understand that you love your dog, and you think he has great characteristics... but aren't there other great champion dogs that also have those characteristics? Every dog that your two dogs will produce open up the possibility of more dogs being bred. Those dogs create more dogs. Unless you seriously hold on to your puppies until they get spayed or neutered there is no real way that you can ever prevent this. Spay/Neuter contracts only work if people follow them and that's never guaranteed (after all - you want to do it too don't you? Who is to say someone isn't going to agree and say "hey he/she is a neat dog, lets breed even if we can't register.") You have no controll over those dogs - they can go to horrible homes, become strays, be abused - create more dogs that continue the cycle. One unspayed female (and her offspring) produces around 67,000 dogs in
six years.
The humane society reports that
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Seven dogs & cats are born every day for each person born in the U.S. Of those, only 1 in 5 puppies and kittens say in their original home for their natural lifetime.
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There are 8 to 10 million cats and dogs that go to shelters
every year.
Three to 5 million of those animals get euthanized. That's a lot of dogs and cats! I have no doubt that you would want the best for any puppy that you produce... but the only way you can ensure that would be to keep that all yourself - because no one, even the new owners can entirely insure whats going to happen to that dog.
I mean no malice with this at all, so please don't misunderstand... but is it really worth it? There are
a lot of awesome dogs out there - but if all of them were bred we'd have more dogs then we know what to do with. (Or rather, those 8-10 million dogs and cats are the ones we already don't know what to do with. Need we really possibly create more when that number will automatically rise each year?)