what is wrong with people-----selling puppies....

[klf73]

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amen to that

I wouldn't be qualified now either, I don't have a fenced in yard. I do have a kennel for my beagles(they follow their nose), and it's rather large but I am sure not to their *standard*.

 

[AngieChick]

Wow, our Humane Society is not like that at all. They do require that if you rent your landlord must approve prior to adoption completion. I think that's reasonable, they had too many pets returned to the shelter due to angry landlords.

We have a chocolate lab/Chesapeake bay retriever rescue dog. Her original owner paid big bucks for her. I suppose they wanted a particular blending of qualities that each type of dog brought. Honestly, as they are both retriever type dogs, I see no issue with this blending. I did have issue with his abusing her, however.

Our other dog is a little old beagle, who we paid a decent sum for many years ago. Beagles can be prone to health/behavior difficulties. This breeder could attest to his lineage and to the health of her dog's offspring and their freedom from genetic defects.

 

[chickenlover50010]

I don't see why people would pay SOOOOO much for a mutt when they could just go to their local animal shelter/rescue and get one for hundreds of $ more... I got my purebread labrador at a shelter for 50$...and we didn't know or care that she was purebred until we took her to her first visit to the vet. And that was about 7 years ago. Here she is when she was much younger, maybe about 4....:

The only thing weird about her is her nose....it turned pink in winter and never turned back...

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

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The shelters in my area are not like this. My cat was a shelter cat and the cat I had before her was also. I just had to sign an agreement to get her spayed and to keep her up to date on shots. I had to prove to them that she was spayed within so many days and have never heard from the shelter since. Maybe it's your state or just that particular shelter.

 

[Stina]

I met my very first Spinone Italiano puppy last weekend. I instantly fell in love with that gorgeous, laid back 4 month old fella!

I fell in love after the first one I met! AMAZING dogs!!...same with hubby once I got him to meet one

Not prone to many major health issues either. Our puppy will be coming from very responsible breeders with very high quality dogs that have been tested for all of the major health concerns in the breed and I'm confident that our dog will be healthy!​

 

[snewman]

I don't know that there is much difference between people who carelessly breed purebreds ("hey, I've got a lab, you've got a lab, let's breed them and make money selling the puppies") and those who breed these designer breeds. In both cases, producing healthy dogs, if that is a goal at all, is secondary to making money. As someone mentioned, a truly good breeder will take a dog back at any time in its life. The ads you see in the newspaper for purebred dogs are not, for the most part, placed by these truly good breeders. They're placed by people who bought, say, a lab, from some guy who happened to have bred it to some other lab and had puppies. Those people would laugh at you if you called back seven years later and asked them to take back a dog you had bought from them. In my humble opinion, the only people qualified to breed dogs are those that are doing so with a goal for producing physically and behaviorally balanced offspring for some distinct purpose, and are willing to stand by the dogs for life. There is no difference between people breeding neurotic or physically defective purebreds and those cross-breeding and calling them "designer dogs". As far as paying more for registration and papers, who cares, unless you're planning on showing or breeding.

 

[debilorrah]

My mom has a Poochon - BichonFriese and Poodle. Cutest thing I have ever seen!!!

 

[scbatz33]

When I was younger I worked for a gal who was a professional dog handler . She also bred and showed flat coated retrievers and english springer spaniels. She ONLY bred when she wanted another of her line to show/breed. She ALWAYS had a waiting list for the other puppies - usually 5xs the amount of people waiting to how many puppies would be born. She NEVER bred just to "fill orders". When I worked for her she had the #2 Springer Spaniel in the country. She only bred to improve her line not to turn a quick buck.

OH, and I don't know about shelters up here in PA since we just moved, but in NC I know they are ridiculous about "placing" animals. My husband's former boss wanted to adopt a couple cats for her farm/barn. She was told she couldn't adopt any cats unless she signed a contract saying they would never be allowed outside.

She ended up getting a couple cats from a want ad. Those are the best fed, most spoiled cats in the world. They do live outside the house, but they have a 12 stall barn to hang out in and they are so well fed, they just watch the mice run by!!! They are fixed and UTD on all vaccs. Seriously, she spoils the living daylights out of them!!! But the lovcal HS wouldn't adopt to her cause she was gonna let them go outside??? Cause going outside and chasing butterflies is soooooo much worse than sitting in a cage for months on end?

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Im in the wrong business it looks like lol

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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I would have just lied to them lol