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Originally Posted by jencar98  You didn't offend me but you didn't understand either. I'm against most anyone breeding, whether show or pet breeders. While I agree it is important to preserve the breed, I believe that can be done adequately with fewer numbers breeding. If I posted what I truly believe and know, it would offend many so, I choose not to for now. Dog breeding is a subject that I can not neatly sum up my opinions in a few short paragraphs. In my heart and mind, I know what makes up a good breeder and it has taken years for my opinion to evolve.
You're right, good breeders dogs rarely end up in rescue but stop and think about that statement. I just read from another thread link that 75% of the dogs in shelters are mix breeds, not pure bred dogs. So, that leaves 25% for pure bred dogs, I would expect of that 25%, for various reasons very few would come from good breeders. None of which has anything to do with "who" the dog came from but, more to do with the person buying the dog. |
and the 25% would be a guess at best, mostly based on what the dog looks like (many a mixed breed looks just like the one breed). I seriously doubt too many known pure breds come in with all their show ribbons, trophies, and papers. So without all the information on the dog there is no way to know whether its a pure bred (I doubt the average shelter is doing DNAing on 'em, which has its own inaccuracies). So the percentage is probably closer to 5% or less.
The 75% is probably the known figure which leaves the remaining 25% an guesstimate. I recently met someone with a yorkie/poodle mix and it looked just like a Yorkie (granted, a less than standard Yorkie, but a Yorkie look-alike all the same) I'm sure many of those dogs coming in are labeled a purebred.
So I'd support spay/neuter of all the mongrels out there, and price fix the purebreds. If the figures from the HSUS are accurate the mongrel population is where the problem lies. why price fix? because it's the breeders themselves that often contribute to the BYB - The "respectable" breeder disposes of dogs they didn't "improve" and still place exorbitant prices on them along with so many restrictions on the buyer, people just decide to breed their own. A BYB isn't born, they're made...often by the very people who claim they wish to exterminate them.
Animal rights activists would have you believe there is some disgrace in breeding animals. They would have you believe that every breeder of purebred dogs contributes significantly to the shelter population rather than the fault of the callousness of a society that would deem animals disposable. The root of the problem goes much deeper than the mongrel and mutt, it is our society's belief and value system (or lack thereof) that has resulted in animals being thrown away like garbage and grandma being dumped in a nursing home.