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Originally Posted by megansmomma  Enjoying breeding is just a lame excuse for making a buck off the back of your dogs. It is inexcusable IMO to even try to raise yourself to the level of the show breeders on this forum. Anyone that mixes breeds when the shelters are over run with poorly breed dogs dying every day for the sole purpose of creative puppies for sale is just low. There is no accountability for all of the dogs that are dying every day. Have you ever visited your local shelter? Seen all of the scared innocent faces pleading to save their lives? Have you held in your arm a sick dog who is so weak from lack of proper care that you didn't think he would make it through the night? Do you know what it is like to pick up your dog and feel the LP popping in their legs? Have you donated your time or money to a rescue to help with the care of irresponsible breeders? Have you cried because you knew a dog would die because there was no room for him? That is what goes on daily in shelters and rescues all over this country. As I am sitting here I see all of the pleas for help popping up from Facebook contacts. This dog is in danger, this one has been hit by a car, this one had puppies and is dying. It becomes overwhelming. Then I come here and see lame arguments about why someone wants to breed a Porkie. 
As for the "closet" breeders they should stay in their closets. Hopefully, someone will prop a great big chair under the doorknob and they can stay there forever. Mixing and breeding substandard dogs adds to the crisis in this country.
I think its a great idea that you chip each and every one of your puppies so if they end up in a kill shelter the local rescue will to be further overrun with cast off from irresponsible breeding practices. They can call you and you can step up and bring that dog back to health.
Breeding should be a privilege and so many feel it's their right. It's a lifelong (for the dogs) decision that should be taken very seriously.
You should be part of the solution and not part of the problem. |
i am not trying to hold my self to the standards of show breeders...think what you want...
its not adding to the crisis if they are homed...if they didnt purchase my puppy they would have purchased someone elses...if people want shelter dogs they will adopt them
i have worked with shelters, my mom was on the board of directors until she got breast cancer...i started volunteering at 12 stopped before i had my second child
i do not feel part of a problem
there are more problems with the shelters dogs then people who breed and sell...there are the people who are to lazy to not fix and buy 2 mutts to live in the back yard and have an oops..and just drop them off/give them away..there are the people who choose not to adopt, there are the adoption qualifications that hinder people and prices some are fair some are way off base.
i understand and respect the decisions of people who do not approve of breeding, mixing, purchasing instead of adopting...i know there are people who think everyone should adopt and not buy ...but thats a choice people have and make...and the reality is people choose to purchase.
sure i get a little profit...wha hoo..i made $500.00 here and there..then you count in food, vet care, grooming, etc..and really i didnt it all goes back into the dogs..i did purchase a puppy with 2 litters (those are my AKC yorkies)