Re: Dog breeding
I am not sure I disagree with breeding altogether Muddy, it is the
amount of irresponsible breeding I strongly disagree with. The ones who mate their bitches every season and churn puppies out like sausages that I despise.
The ones who force unhealthy, run down bitches to have litters repeatedly.
For example, there was a woman in the village I used to live in, who did this, but I didn't know at the time.
She came to me day and asked if she could use my all black GSD for stud.
( 'Douglas' is in my albums somewhere).
I asked to see her dog's paperwork first, then checked the bitch had passed relevant health tests and had been hip x-rayed.
Everything seemed alright, so we went ahead with the mating.
I asked if I could see the puppies once their eyes were open and they could stand up, which I did. There were 6 born.
In those days, I used to have the Kennel Gazette and it printed all the latest litters recorded.
The litter my dog had sired was KC recorded as a litter of 9, which of course wasn't true.
To try and shorten this a bit, it turned out this disgusting, dishonest woman was KC recording 'fictitious' puppies in order to get spare registration certificates, and then using this spare paperwork for other pups that were from totally unregistered stock, and nothing to do with my dog's progeny whatsoever.
I was furious.
My dogs had a good name, and I was always very selective and totally honest, so to discover that someone was using my good name on strange, unhealthy pups was bad news indeed.
I then found out she had several Goldies she was breeding from, more Shepherds, and another breed which I can't remember now, so you can imagine how much fairytale paperwork she was getting if she did fiddled the time every time. She was also breeding those Rag Doll cats.
She also had an accomplice down South somewhere, that was getting dogs from the local pound, then sending them up to this woman, who then sold them on for treble the price because they appeared to have good breeding and suddenly had the KC papers to go with them!
She forced her dogs to mate every single season, even though the KC tried to stop this by refusing to register puppies from these multiple litters. But this woman could mate her dogs to death every season and the KC never knew, because she had stacks of false papers of her own all ready to use.
Needless to say, I reported her.
We all know this sort of thing happens every day to these wretched puppy farm dogs. They have a life of hell, never seeing sunshine and used only as breeding machines.
So in answer to your question, I said how I detest
some breeders, the unscrupulous or ignorant ones who don't care tuppence for their dogs, but I do not entirely disagree with responsible breeding - big difference.
The KC have tightened things up a lot now, loads of new regs, but they can't come out and inspect every litter born, so still don't know how many are
really in a litter.