40% of dogs and cats euthanized in shelters every year are PURE BREDS. This is why I do not understand why there are NOT strict laws and regulations regarding breeding. There should only be a certain amount of breeders per state per breed. These people and their facilites should be properly investigated and licenced before becoming one of the “chosen ones”(per-se).
And anyone who is found breeding without a licence should be penalized. The homeless pet population is unacceptable and people who encourage breeders by “buying” their animals, are just contributing to the death of inoccent ones in shelters/rescues.
A perfectly healthy, lovable, young dog is being murdered as we speak just because he couldn’t find a home and breeders think it is ok to bring more and more animals into this world. What can you do to help the homeless/euthanized animal population?
To make a clarification I also helped in a shelter not for very long because I was a basket case everday. In just a few months I saw MANY pure breds murdered. Also, in reponse to the remark that dogs are being sent to other states because there is a shortage, that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard…I think you may need to get your facts straight.
Some people are not understanding what I am saying… THERE ARE TOO MANY BREEDERS(including “legitimate breeders”)! There NEEDS to be a certain number of licenced breeders per state/ per A PARTICULAR BREED and the people who “buy” these puppies/kittens should be mandated to sterlize them. Also, a mutt can not help if it is a mutt they are just as cute and lovable as any pure bred and most the time are in better health.
I would also like to know what these breeder enthusiasts think about particular breed rescues. Don’t even try to tell me that breeding is just fine with these “breed specific” rescues are busting at the seams.
The breeder supporters support it simply because they can “buy” a certain animal when and where they want to (instant gratification) instead of finding a truly needy pet that is waiting on death row at a shelter.
you’re 100% correct the goverment should regulate all breeders and pet shops.
where do you get these numbers??? I worked at a shelter for several years and maybe 5 % where purebreds….
Purebred animals have tatoos (or microchips) so you can easily trace them to their breeder and therefore – current owner. WHen we put down purebreds it was usually becuase they were nuts, had been injured or something odd, 90 % of all pet requests were for “purebred” animals so any healthy purebred was easily adopted out.
MOST – 99% of euthanized cats were mixed, domestic cats and kittens.
Some dogs were not necessarily purebreds but certainly looked like it…
anyhow if you want to blame anyone – blame the BACK YARD BREEDERS – people who just have a “cute” dog or cat and let it breed… Your facts are incorrect.
if there were so many unwanted dogs then why owuld they be shipping them in from other states because several states have shortages of dogs to adopt?
So you are happy to have a civil right taken away? polititions know more than vets? Back off your PAWs cause, it isn’t the responsible breeders that are the problem like you think or claim, its the commercial breeders and the uneducated putting any two dogs together that are the problem.
They don;t care..they are thinking they can breed their dogs later to collect the cash.
I have gotten all my animals from a shelter…dogs and cats.
And they are all fixed.
Volunteer at an animal rescue or shelter. Honestly, I agree with your point, although I do believe that your statistics may be a little off. It’s just sad seeing wonderful animals sitting in those shelters and you just know next week they’ll be in the freezer. I volunteer at a no-kill animal rescue that pulls from the shelters. It’s so hard helping people to understand why we fix the animals before we adopt them out. Some people just don’t care about the homeless animal population. Some people just don’t know about it. And some people are just ignorant of how them letting their cat get pregnant once just so their kids can witness the miracle of birth basically sentences 6 cats to death in the shelter. I always tell people that if they want to see the miracle of birth, they should foster a pregnant cat for a rescue. My rescue is ALWAYS looking for more foster homes. It’s just a sad situation though because I feel like we’ve made progress in the last 50 years, but it still isn’t near enough. I wish more people who love their animals would have some love for the homeless animals by not breeding and adopting instead. The only real key to fighting this socially is spreading the knowledge around in a non-attacking manner. I just hope that slowly through efforts from people like us, that uninformed people will help take a stand against over population by altering their animals and adopting. =)
Ps- also, just to comment on what the woman wrote about how “shelter animals can just turn on you,” that isn’t true. The animals are temperment tested in shelters before being adopted. And in most cases, the animals have resided in foster homes where they have been exposed and lived with so problems would be found then. Also, the only animals I’ve ever had turn on me are purebreds as a result of inbreeding from the backyard breeders that most people get their purebreds from. And in my experience, most people who work in a shelter or rescue (and more than half of my friends are in this field) would prefer to adopt.
Because they are too busy seeing that their wallets are getting bigger…
I bought a purebred once..for 1800 bucks!!! And regretted it as soon as I walked out with the pup. Turned out that he needed all sorts of surgeries, he had 2 rows of teeth on top…he could not be house broken, paper yes but he would not go outside to do his duty. I ended up selling him for $300 to a woman that lost her dog that was identical to mine.
The dog I own now came from the shelter and is a lab mix..she has no problems!!
My question is why are people going ga-ga over these new breeds of “mutts” like Jugs and Juggles and Weagles and such….last I knew..they were mutts…mix breeds right? And now, people are paying top dollar for these homemade puppies…makes me sick! Get your next dog or cat from a shelter and save a life…Stop feeding the strays in your area, rather catch them and take them in to you nearest Humane Society. That way they can “at least” be spayed or neutered in attempt to stop this overbreeding of the animals on the streets in return, stopping the vicious circle…GRR…AND by all means….get any pet you currently own fixed because you just never know if an accident will happen with your “house cat” or “lap dog” It did mine, my once perfectly happy unfixed cat jumped out a window that was open 2 inches and came back 3 days later…6 weeks later we had 5 new babies….it can happen to anyone. (I have since had to put my pretty girl Sox to sleep because of the pet food recall..her kidneys failed.)
I worked in the shelter and I can say I was one that has to help put the animals down. But we only put them down if they didn’t pass the temper test and or was sick. We had a long talk about it and honestly some of the shelter workers said that they wouldn’t get an animal from a shelter that they liked pure bred dogs, and at the shelter about 90% of the time we guess what they are we can’t say for sure if there are purebred animals or not. And at a shelter a lot of times you don’t know the past. and at anytime they might turn on you, we had animals returned to us for that reason. If getting an animal from a shelter you just have to be very careful and ask tons of questons about that animal.
If it’s a good breeder then the do not over bred. U need to check your facts. It’s the backyard breeder that thinks he’s going to make a few bucks. and breds to he’s friends dog.There are more mixes & made up breds in shelter then anything Most pure breds have a rescue but what about all those loving mixes
It’s not the breeder in question, is it? Think about it. It’s the people who buy pets and abandon them. Breeders don’t send their puppies to the shelter to be killed. The people who buy the dogs do.
So, the question should be, why do people buy dogs when they haven’t got the sense to take care of them? Instead of ragging on breeders, who legitimately sell the animals to buyers, why not request that people be required to have some sort of license in order to buy a dog or cat?
Back yard breeders breed dogs because it makes money. Why does it make money? because all the idiots out there who want the latest trendy pooch. Then when fido doesn’t sit on command and pee outside, fido goes to the pound.
You think they breed dogs because they get to fill up shelters? No. It’s because idiots out there want to get that purebred poochy and don’t bother to find out that purebred dogs are temperamental difficult animals.
I don’t breed dogs, by the way. I raise ducks. I also sell my ducks. But my ducks get eaten, so I know they don’t go to a shelter. But, I still detest the idea that people will blame the breeder, when the breeder doesn’t send a single dog to the shelter.
Blame the right people.
Goverment reg of that sort is likely to occur here ….at least I hope not. If it did they d just make an even bigger mess out of it. Germany is very self regulating within their kennel clubs. Ive only ever seen 3 or 4 stray dogs in several trips there. back yard breeding isnt able to be registered there. Ive gotten most my dogs… mostly purebreds…. from shelters over the years. However, I dont have neutered animals so its harder to find places you can get a rescue animal. Ive not had any “accidents “either .Some, not all, do tend to loose their drive and gain weight more easily. Before any one jumps on that go read the vet texts….theyll bear me out on that. I feel that telling people that neutered animals dont get fat hurts the credibility of those organizations when most people “know ” better than that. The science indicates otherwise too. Maybe if vascetomoies and hysterectomies were openly offered more could be encouraged to sterilize their pets. Some of the rescue organizations and show breeders have very restricitive contracts for their adoptions. This is well meaning for the dog but they seek such “ideal’ homes that it drives people to the backyard breeders Its hard to believe that shelter employees wouldnt want a shelter dog. most I know have more than they need.You have to try and judge what the temperment is in the short time you have with the dog there but with experience its easy to judge correctly 80% + of the time
It is precisely this issue that is currently before the legislature and governor of California. Under the Assembly Bill 1634, the California Healthy Pet Bill, each and every pet owner will be required by law to spay or neuter their animals, unless they apply for a breeder’s exemption.
Elderly purebreds are routinely dumped in municipal animal shelters to wait for nearly certain death, while their callous owners are out shopping for new kittens and puppies.
To quote Ed Boks, General Manager of Los Angeles Animal Services:
“Mahatma Gandhi told us that the best way to evaluate the morality of a community is to look at how we treat our animals. Our City Council has risen to the occasion again by accepting our collective responsibility for a tenacious problem while at the same time helping to save the lives and end the suffering of countless generations of unwanted animals. They did that by supporting AB 1634, the fiscally prudent and humane solution to LA’s, and California’s, pet overpopulation problems. It is my hope that all our representatives on both sides of the aisle in Sacramento will be just as fiscally prudent and humane as the bill continues its journey toward passage and Governor Schwarzenegger’s signature. This one’s for the animals!”
Purebred animals are a variety of livestock, and their breeders and owners must be subjected to the strictest possible regulation.
I am convinced that if we allowed only those who can breed responsibility, we would not be seeing pure bred animals being euthanized. In fact, we would have a lot less homeless mixed breeds meeting the same fate. Lots of mixed breeds come from back yard breeders that had a “oops” with the neighbors dog/cat. Those animals need to be altered.
The only people that should breed animals are those that do it for the health and love of the breed. Those that are dedicated to the animals, not the $$$. This involves a high level or understanding in genetics and lineage, which back yard breeders rarely consider. Plus any breeder that truly cares about the lives they help bring into this world should include in their contract that if the adopting owner should have to let the animal go, they would have to return them to the breeder (not the pound). Any breeder that won’t take one of their dogs/cats back obviously doesn’t care about the line they produce—Don’t adopt from them.
INDIFFERENCE is ultimately the answer to your question. Puppy mill operators and back yard breeders don’t want to see it because they don’t want to care. They are not alone, not many see the realty because it is hard to take. I worked in animal control and saw worthy pets euthanized all the time because more would keep flowing in. It was like a faucet you couldn’t turn off. Everyday was heartbreaking. I did what I could to make a difference. Eventually you realize you can’t save them all. People would just keep dumping their animals without looking back. That callousness haunts me today. As long as our community leaders insist on turning their head on this serious problem, all the public will see as evidence of the overpopulation problem is the occasional blurb on the news.
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