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Originally Posted by Maximo  I wholeheartedly agree with you that something needs to be done, but penalizing breeders if a dog ends up in a shelter might have the unintended effect of bolstering mass-producers who will happily pay fines or find a way to get exempted while discouraging small hobby breeders who don't have $$ to risk fines -- no matter how carefully they screen buyers, there is a risk of getting burned, and all it would take is one bad case. |
I hear that excuse a lot, it won't hurt the miller, but it will hurt the small home breeder. In this case, I believe that the small home breeder is a large part of the problem. People need to learn that breeding comes with responsibilities, and some of those are financial. If the breeder cannot afford to pay the cost of putting the dog to sleep, he should not be breeding. Maybe if some of the byb understood how many of their own dogs ended up in shelters, they might rethink their "breeding program."