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Originally Posted by iggyformayor
Seriously, the ignorance   The breeder we got our puppy from required us to fill out an application and made us come visit her before she would even consider selling us a puppy. She also does a ton of genetic testing as well as temperament testing to make sure that the dogs will be as healthy as possible and that they're going to the right home with the right owners where that puppy's specific personality will fit with the owners lifestyle. She shows her dogs, and only breeds when she wants another puppy for her to show herself, and only charged us the cost of breeding the dogs (insemination, vaccinations, etc.) and never makes any money off of her dogs. If we ever decide that we can't keep her any longer (which will NEVER happen) we are REQUIRED by the contract to return her to the breeder.
And to say that people who buy from breeders don't love dogs? We waited for 18 months (!!!) to get our puppy when the first insemination failed. This wasn't a spur of the moment decision. Give your head a shake.
To say that all breeders are bad and should be banned is mind blowingly stupid. I just can't even.
I also need to say that I have known multiple people who told us "Adopt, don't shop!" return their dogs to shelters or had them put down when they couldn't handle them or they didn't fit their lifestyle anymore. So please, tell me who the true dog lover is.
And this is the type of dog you get from a REPUTABLE breeder, the sweetest, most mild mannered dog I've even met, and that says something for a beagle...
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All purebred dogs are, by definition, in bred, it is what makes them 'pure'.
40 years ago purebreds where only really the concern of a small number of dog show types, all the rest of us had muts that looked 'mostly' like a Lab or 'mostly' like a Shepherd, this was a healthy dog population, what we are doing now is normalising genetic abnormality and it makes no difference how much genetic testing you do, if you just turn out Beagles, no matter how you do it, you are inbreeding and eventually you will produce unhealthy traits.