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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  Personally, I don't see how one can be a breeder AND a rescuer at the same time. It's totally contradictory! I understand those that breed for the betterment of the breed, but she (karla) breeds mixed breeds! Then how can she turn around and claim she rescues?
Katie's surgery was near a $1000. Her adoption fee was only $300. All you anti-rescue folk out there tell me how that is "dog stealing".  |
I am going to speak to the top part on being a breeder and a rescuer at the same time. Only from my end of things not from what i have seen of others not on YT doing the breed rescue thing.
I work with a breeder that will if asked step in and help a dog in need of our bred even if we did not bred it or if we think we can get it help and get it a home. NOT to put it in our gene pool to bred.
As we know our bred and it is rare and all its silly quirks we have a better handle on if that is a problem or just bred stuff that needs better management. Our bred is extremely mouthy at 14 to 18 month and it lend it self to being considered a biter and things going bad. They are also very paw used like hands and a large need to get very close. Very big and they know it and use it if let to, to do as they please and rough makes them shut down. We know this if a rescue takes them in without knowing the bred concerns then they can not know that mouthy is normal and deal with it at such. That the dog is not biting but just really needs to hold your had in its mouth.
As we are aware of this and have handled it in the passed with one of our boys, we know that we can help a dog turn around. Had we not know dog body language and our breeds need to mouth our own little boy been concidered a biter as he grabs a little to rough to hold your hand. He is now in a great home with a CGN on the end of his name which many thought would not happen.
So yes breeders can be a rescue if it is for the right reasons just like everything else in life.
JL