Reply to: Breeding pedigree dogs

[TheLordDave]

It's grim up north.

Pah them northerners don't know a good whippet. South Wales is where it's at.

[VectraMan]

We need our award winning whippet when I was a kid. She had 13 pups. They destroyed the garden and my parents worked out they were about a grand down in the end. We kept the best one who was wonderful though.

It's grim up north.

[SueEllen]

If you want to make money from dogs just smuggle pups in from Ireland, don't vaccinate them just give them some herbal cr*p that is not proven to work, fake their paperwork as coming from the NI as it's part of the UK, advertise them on the web and sell them to unsuspecting people from the back of your car/van in random car parks.

Also make sure you use loads of fake names and burner phones that way you can't be traced when the majority of the pups die a painful slow death due to a virus/infection they got due to condition they were bred in and how you kept them......

[TheLordDave]

We need our award winning whippet when I was a kid. She had 13 pups. They destroyed the garden and my parents worked out they were about a grand down in the end. We kept the best one who was wonderful though.

[SueEllen]

Ah, that I didn't know.

Hmm, well maybe I'll stick with Plan A - Pedigree Jack Russells.

P.S. Not interested in all those sob stories about abandoned dogs and rescue centres etc - They aren't my fault, and I wouldn't be adding to the problem.

You need to chose a breed of dog there is not a lot off, and people who want them will pay for them but treat them extremely well.

So the breeds you have currently mentioned are all out.

Plus you shouldn't breed dogs (or cats for that matter) to make money. Unless your dog (or cat) is one that has won lots of awards ( so is inbred and has lots of genetic problems) you don't make loads of money for the amount of hassle you go through.

I've worked along side contractors who were pedigree dog and cat breeders. Their pets only had a couple of litters and it was hard work. They didn't allow their pets to have more litters because they didn't want a dead pet.

[OwlHoot]

If you are breeding dogs for sale, you are adding to the problem.

If you are breeding "pedigrees" you are adding to the health problems.

Might not be "your problem", but it would be you who is responsible for adding to it.

Hmm, well maybe I should go back to my original plan - Breeding edible snails

Now you can't tell me _they_ need caesarians.

[WTFH]

Ah, that I didn't know.

Hmm, well maybe I'll stick with Plan A - Pedigree Jack Russells.

P.S. Not interested in all those sob stories about abandoned dogs and rescue centres etc - They aren't my fault, and I wouldn't be adding to the problem.

If you are breeding dogs for sale, you are adding to the problem.


If you are breeding "pedigrees" you are adding to the health problems.


Might not be "your problem", but it would be you who is responsible for adding to it.

[TheLordDave]

It's true of a lot of the brachycephalic breeds. Skull size to pelvis ratio.

[OwlHoot]

Aside from French Bulldogs not being able to birth naturally due to the head size and requiring a caesarean and the associated mortality rate that is.

Ah, that I didn't know.

Hmm, well maybe I'll stick with Plan A - Pedigree Jack Russells.

P.S. Not interested in all those sob stories about abandoned dogs and rescue centres etc - They aren't my fault, and I wouldn't be adding to the problem.

[MrMarkyMark]

I'm going inside now to have a cuddle with my 2 mutts.

Remember....no tongues .

[_V_]

fugly mutts.

[TheLordDave]

Aside from French Bulldogs not being able to birth naturally due to the head size and requiring a caesarean and the associated mortality rate that is.

[MrMarkyMark]

Yep.

Quality....

[suityou01]

I'm going inside now to have a cuddle with my 2 mutts.

[fullyautomatix]

Maybe, but it's the same thing. Forcing a creature to have sex with their family and then sell their babies so you can make a profit from people who want babies who look a particular way.

Is it the same thing? Where do you live ? Some remote part of Wales or something ?