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Originally Posted by airplane  Wow! What a horrible breeder. I can't believe people knowingly breed like that. I don't understand the argument of maintaining best show quality dogs. There are show quality dogs who are very healthy and produce healthy puppies. So why doesn't she go that route. It may be more work and she may need new breeding stock and all that, but it seems to me instead that the breeder just took the easy way out of maintaining show quality dogs. Her dogs may be very beautiful but it just doesn't seem ethical to me at all to knowingly breed a health issue. I just don't get it. I probably would've sent her the meanest nastiest email ever! Lol. And I'd probably take it further than that too. I just don't like breeders who don't have a sense of ethics and who don't put health first when it comes to breeding. |
I TOTALLY AGREE! It has to do with money, greed and ignorance. That breeder is in denial and does not want anyone to tell her she does not know everything there is to know. She is resistant to the whole DNA testing thing, especially since the cardiac issues has arisen and been spread around.
YTCA decisions are going to push her though and she does not like that since she wants to be a player in that organization. But people are getting smarter and better educated and when those who have such blind faith in her get educated it will change.
Funny, since the whole DNA thing came to be, it is not expensive and, of course not perfect, but the better breeders really like it because they can give their buyer's better assurance of health.