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Originally Posted by makemepretty  I too don't understand why anyone would be against this. Granted, I don't understand breeding but there are so many animals out there, why does anyone need more than 4 females? We have such an over population of pets and more people are breeding.
I know people have said that they don't breed to make money that they barely break even but I call bullish*t on that. People breed to SELL puppies. It's gotten out of control. If they limited breeders to one or two litters a year, would we run out of pets? I think not.
I could never be a breeder, I don't understand taking a family member, making them have babies then selling those babies to people you don't know. However, I have seen such a large percentage of badly bred animals and animal shelters full of unwanted animals that I just don't get the *need* for anyone to breed. |
Your first comment about breeders do this strictly for money, is so far off reality, it would be amusing if it was not so dangerou. You have never bred and never would, which is a good thing, because you would very quickly come to that fork in the road, where you would need to decidse if you are breeding for money or to contribute to the production of purebred, quality, healthy, true to breed standard Yorkies. It is either your passion or your job.....puppy mills make it their job, and you are correct, they make money hand over fist. But anyone that has ever done this correctly, for the right reasons, is educated and knowledgable in what it takes to produce healthy dogs that are not laden with genetic issues, etc, that die on new owners at 6 months - 6 years old....bad livers, bad hearts, bad kidneys, bad lungs, bad immune systems, etc. That costs money and if you priced your babies to cover the costs of care and preventative measures taken to ensure your babies are healthy, people couldnt afford to buy them. It is propaganda and scare tactics to tell people that breeders all make money.....bovine scat??? not hardly......some of us just want to provide loving people pup[pies that are healthy and are not going to cost them thousands of dollars, trying to keep a sick puppy alive.....to think people are actually out there thinking we all do this for the sole purpose of selling dogs to make money......bovine scat!