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Originally Posted by gemy  It is not just puppymills per say, but HVB's ie high volumne breeders.
I am certainly not comfortable with AKC and the CKC sleeping with the HVB"s. Maybe this is a short term strategy until they work on getting them closed down, IDK. You know keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
IMO HVB's have no place in the pet industry at all. Look at the illogic of it. You are breeding to place dogs in PET homes and you keep them in cages, and sheds, and an environment so totally divorced from what this pup will actually be sold into. Where is the socialization? There is None.
Work to get the law changed, easier at the AKC to do I think. Mandate, mandatory health tests on all breeding sires/dams, prior to being able to register a litter permanently with the AKC. The HVB's will literally scream at this one.
Paperwork must be submitted for those tests through a reputable agency.
Demand microchipping on all purebred dog registrations, and consider going to mandatory DNA testing.
Anyhow just a few suggestions. |
Isn't HVB just a nice way to say puppymill. I don't believe all puppymills are horrid, there might be some that do take care of their dogs. But to me a puppy mill, is where the owners makes living manufacturing puppies.
it is an occupation, not a hobby.