I agree wholeheartedly with what you've said. Breeding tiny pups is wrong. Hitting animals is wrong. Period. (Or as they say here in England: "full stop").
There are a couple of points that I feel the need to make, however.
Alot of you aren't going to want to hear what my first point, but I feel the need to say it anyway. As long as people keep buying teacups, people are going to continue breeding them. I know that many of your teacups came from "standards". However, if there is more demand for tinies than can be bred this way, unscrupulous breeders are going to breed tinies to get tinies. It's a matter of supply and demand. There's good money in it and we live in a society where "money talks". If we want the practise to stop, we have to stop contributing to it. That's the only way to stop it.
Second, the woman who admitted to hitting her Yorkie was distraught that she had done so. She came to this board, not to say that what she had done was okay, but asking for advice on how to mend the relationship with her dog and how to better train her pup. She listened to our advice (despite the fact that much of it was extremely harsh) and, in my opinion, is going to implement it. She seemed heartily sorry for what happened and she seemed willing to change. I see no reason to "beat" this subject to death.
There. Now you can attack ME. |