Is backyard dog breeding profitable?

[tharrell]

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Giving shots and womings yourself is great! Most vets charge WAY too much for this. I just personally want a heath certificate to give buyers saying their puppy is healthy at time of purchase and that their health guarantee is in place. I also personally believe a dog shouldn't be bred more than 3 or so times. It's just so hard on them. These are just my personal views!

your views.....but not alot of other customer views at all.

glad you realize there are others that do different out there in the big bad world.

tell animals breeding in nature that there is a limit....hmm...doesn't work. not advocating overbreeding at all...but you mut be realistic. of course more than 3 times is acceptable...but not to you. again, others have other opinions.

You are absolutely right, and everyone having different opinions on the same thing is a good thing! No one is more right than another. I suppose the OP was asking about breeding for profit. I don't breed for profit. If I did I might breed my dog over more seasons. I don't do that and think 3 is enough for my dogs. I as a woman wouldn't want to be pregnant constantly over my life. I'm pregnant with my second, and this is enough for me, lol! Then again you have your Michelle Duggar's who can have 18 kids and want more! Also in nature some animals breed and breed, and others do not. Wolves breed once a year. They only cycle once a year. At that, only the alpha male and female are able to breed and that gets overturned every few years so it is someone limited, atleast in pack animal. On the other hand amimals like mice and rats probaly produce thousands in their lifetime!
Discussion and debate are great. What kind of would would we live in anyway if we all thought the exact same way!!!

 

[tharrell]

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I'm 100% percent with you on that one! My husband and I talk about that all the time. There are so many kids here in America that need good loving homes, yet we go to other countries! I think adoption is wonderful no matter who you adopt, but I personally would look outside my own door before traveling thousands of miles. And a 5, 6, or 7 year old will love you just as much, if not more than a newborn! But once again, that is a very opinionated subject!

 

[Redyre Rotties]

my .02

I breed dogs in a certain manner, most people on this forum know that.

In recent years, I have tried very hard to keep my views on the breeding practices of others to myself. I feel in the current global anti-breeding climate, we must protect the rights of other to breed animals in whatever way they choose to do so as long as it is done in a humane fashion.

If we do not, there is a high probability that we will ALL lose our right to breed, and even OWN, the dogs or animals of our choice. That is a right I feel must be protected at all costs.

JMO....

 

[FarmerChick]

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your views.....but not alot of other customer views at all.

glad you realize there are others that do different out there in the big bad world.

tell animals breeding in nature that there is a limit....hmm...doesn't work. not advocating overbreeding at all...but you mut be realistic. of course more than 3 times is acceptable...but not to you. again, others have other opinions.

You are absolutely right, and everyone having different opinions on the same thing is a good thing! No one is more right than another. I suppose the OP was asking about breeding for profit. I don't breed for profit. If I did I might breed my dog over more seasons. I don't do that and think 3 is enough for my dogs. I as a woman wouldn't want to be pregnant constantly over my life. I'm pregnant with my second, and this is enough for me, lol! Then again you have your Michelle Duggar's who can have 18 kids and want more! Also in nature some animals breed and breed, and others do not. Wolves breed once a year. They only cycle once a year. At that, only the alpha male and female are able to breed and that gets overturned every few years so it is someone limited, atleast in pack animal. On the other hand amimals like mice and rats probaly produce thousands in their lifetime!
Discussion and debate are great. What kind of would would we live in anyway if we all thought the exact same way!!!

I hear you.
the wolves breed 1 time per year cause they are on top of the food chain.
more mice are needed to feed those wolves.
prey animals breed very very much and often....cause not many survive to become adults and breed. and they are food for the higher ups in the food chain.

think nature definitely. nature has the answers.

 

[gritsar]

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I totally agree. I have owned many many rescues over the years. My Charlie Girl, the best dog I've ever known, bar none, was from a high kill shelter and I spent the ten years that she was with me/us trying to help her overcome the scars from her physical and emotional abuse. Sadly, some of those scars never left her.
Now I have a GSD from a reputable breeder and am waiting on another. Does the breeder show a big profit? I doubt it. You try tending to 15 GSDs, including housing them with A/C and heat, feeding an fresh organic diet, vet care, etc. Not to mention having them all underfoot.

 

[RabbitMage]

I would again like to advocate for anyone considering breeding their dogs for a profit spend a week, a day, even a few hours volunteering 'behind the scenes' at their local shelter.

 

[onthespot]

I did volunteer at a rescue. I used to take photos of their dogs for their website. After a while I started grooming their dogs for free so they would take a better pic, and it just snowballed from there and I was there full time. I increased the adoptability of their dogs so much and speeded up the turnover so fast on the moveable dogs that they found it worth their while to pay me a grand a week to just improve their dogs, show them to people, take good pics. Dog adoption is BIG BUSINESS, not any different from dog breeding, except they (shelters/rescues) have no legal responsibility for any gentic defect, do not have to guarantee their dogs' health or temperaments, can make up and/or change the rules as they go along. They went from a broke down little ol' rescue begging for towels and old blankets and help to "wipe out our ten thousand dollar vet bill" to hauling in a quarter mil a year after I helped them learn how to take care of and market their dogs. With all the $ coming in, their ethics went completely down the toilet and I left. I started breeding my own dogs a few years later and have no regrets and no moral conflict at all.

 

[verity]

Oh yeah, there are plenty of backyard breeders/puppy millers making a profit 'out there' ---
Check the Hearts United For Animals website for some of the results ---

 

[tharrell]

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I couldn't agree more. People forget that most of the bigger shelters make BIG money.

 

[chinbunny]

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Exactly. Most of the dogs in pounds and shelters come from people who don't care if their dog breeds or not. Or they let it stray. Not from someone planning a litter. I keep track of my local animal control through their website. Very, very few are breeder dumped dogs. 99% of those they pick up are strays left to roam free. Our animal control covers two counties, and only has a few open kennels. They keep the dogs for an extended period of time till they are put down, moved into rescue, or the owners pick them up, because they get paid by the day by each county to do it. So, so much for overpopulation.

I also agree with the rottie breeder. Its the OPs business how they breed their dogs as long as its done in a humane manner. They don't need to be slammed with anti-breeder rescue stuff. Opposing breeding means that you support taking away our rights to breed animals. Like I stated before it seems on this forum its ok to breed any other animal, but you'd better not breed your dog. I see some hypocrisy there.

As for vetting your animals at home, ALOT of animal breeders do that. You don't have to run the dog to vet every time there is problem if it can be treated at home. Now, again, I am not a dog breeder, but I know you can buy vaccines for them from places like tractor supply. Doesn't make the breeder irresponsible. It just saves them money.