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Originally Posted by gracielove  Yes, people have a right to breed their dog. So far. More and more laws are being made to try to contain the rampant increase of dog and cat populations. If a person wants a dog they should go to the pound and save a dog's life. If they can't jump through the "hoops" of being required to get the animal spayed or neutered and paying a fee to help with the financial upkeep of the shelter then they have no business having a dog. I see by a previous comment you made that you don't believe a person should be required to neuter their dog. People have a "right" to do a lot of things that are harmful to society. They have a right to drop out of school at the age of 16 or have babies when they are 15. No one can stop them. But it puts an added burden on the people in society that do what is responsible like finish their educations and earn a decent living. You can breed you dog but you are part of the problem not part of the solution to the overwhelming animal population. |
My thought has always been that every puppy should be microchipped to the breeder to enable a trackback. If the puppy end up dumped at the local shelter weeks, months or years later from abuse, neglect or abandonment the breeder could contacted. This would in turn make the breeder accountable for the life they created. Accountability might include being responsible for rehoming, paying a fee to animal control to rehome (including spay or neuter) or keeping the dog. IMO this might make breeders (one time, BYBer and puppymills all included) consider the future of the puppies they feel the right and need to bring into this world and be held accountable for this right. Of course, this would not be an effective control to all breeders but it sure would make those selling puppies online and commercially accountable. Breeding should be considered a privilege that is earned and not a right. Your right would need to be earned by their responsible actions after they collect the money from the new owners. It should not end when the cash goes into their greedy pocket while living off the profits.
There are plenty of breeders that have it written into their puppy contract this very idea. Those are the ones that IMO should fall into the reputable category and whom I would give my money to when purchasing a puppy. It's also basic rehoming agreement with animal shelters and rescues as well. So why not make the millers and BYBer live by this rule as well? When I adopted Doodlebug and Bogey I signed a contract and agreed to contact the rescue and shelter they were adopted from if it ever there came a time that I was not able to properly care for my dogs. Pebbles on the other hand was purchased from a BYBer without such a contract. Her previous owner (my friend) rehomed her to me a 5 months. The breeder has no idea the she is no longer living with the family she was sold to 5 years ago. With her temperament and lack of socialization as a puppy Pebbles could easily have been a statistic in a kill shelter. Even as a puppy she guarded her food and toy which would have classified her as a biter which most likely would have been a death sentence. Maybe if this BYBer were to have been called on her irresponsible breeding practices she would think twice about her actions.