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Originally Posted by Mardelin  I still find it very strange that some that is new to YT comes on and pulls up a very old post in defense of a questionable breeder.
This breeder is a commercial breeder and as Nancy stated; PA does not have a very stringent rating system for breeders; it is one of the states that has a high volume of Puppy Mills.
To the person that is defending this breeder, it is your choice to frequent this type of breeder, however, we at YT work hard at educating against buying from this type of breeder.
Living off the backs of dogs is definately a big no, no. |
agreed. Let's say just for argument's sake, you have 100 dogs, now just how many loving assistants would you need to take care of these dogs. That is exercise daily, groom, feed, train, take to vet, love and socialize? Now this is a 24 7 operation. Maybe at nighttime just a skeleton staff, say two folks plus the business owner. Now to socialize to a home / house environment, how many houses would you need on your property? Oh let's not forget these houses should be lived in, with cooking, cleaning, and all the regular noises of a house. You'd still need a kennel, but I suppose you could rotate the litters in and out of the 3 houses. Now vet costs, boy that would be a big ticket item. Getting back to labour for a moment, let's say one person could care for 4dogs for 4 hours and another 4 for 4 hours. That makes eight dogs in an eight hour shift. 2 shifts 16 dogs in order to probably care for the 100 dogs, you would staff at 16 head count plus your night staff.
By now we are racking up the labour costs. Oh wait but of course commercial breeders have no where near that kind of manpower.
IMHO dogs do not belong in commercial breeding operations, no matter how well kept that kennel is. Dogs are NOT livestock. Their needs are way different. Dogs are destined for a family home, not the dinner table!