DumDog
Posted : 8/18/2008 10:37:50 PM
I was bored and getting annoyed at the adverts in Craigslist tonight (people are actually BARTERING their dogs! someone wants a chihuahua in exchange for a tzu they bought -"we bought her and she's sweet but we have our hearts still set on a chi! we'll trade for one with papers!"
so...... yeah... i ranted in craigslist and then dug up this thread and condensed it, edited a wee bit,then posted it in the CL... and i decided to post it HERE as well, in case anyone else felt like doing the same!
-You know your a Back Yard Breeder when:
-You breed your female everytime she comes into heat
-Prenatal care consists of adding wet food to the females diet and a vet check up at the local petsmart clinic!
-because of your poor breeding practices you end up with a couple of
pups that are an unacceptable color for the breed so you call them
"rare" and charge twice as much!
-you market the pups almost exclusively at the end of the Walmart parking lot
-If the pups dont sell at a certain prices you continue to lower
the price until they do sell. Hey at least you got some money out of
it.
-You know you're a BYB when I come over and offer to rescue all your dogs
- When someone asks for "health certificates" you show them a receipt for a puppy wellness vet exam (OFA? CERF? MDR1? vW?..)
- You let anyone who will simply pay a deposit "pick" a puppy (no interviews, screening buyers, helping match the pup...)
- You don't see anything wrong with releasing a 6.5 week old pup
(illegal in some places, ruins socialization opportunities for the
litter)
- You advertise pups as having solid temperaments because "the
daddy is nice to everyone and the mommy doesn't let bad guys in the
house" (no true tests of temperament like TT, SchH, other tests
specific to the temperament and working ability of the specific breed)
- You markup prices based on color, like an all-black GSD or a "fox
red" labrador (these two breeds have no preference for color, one is
not any more rare or desirable than another)
- someone asks you why you decided to breed your dogs and you give one of these replies:
1. So my kids could see the miracle of life
2. Because fluffy is the sweetest dog ever!
3. Decide?? I just couldn't afford to get him/her neutered/spayed..
- If all the pups aren't sold and gone by 5 weeks, there's always the shelter!
- Because you want to "make back your money" on your initial purchase.
- Your dog doesn't participate in anything but humping or birthing to make you money.
- You can't even spell "whelping box".
- "Healthy" pups means you bought some wormer at Walmart.
- You think your dog has special qualities that need to be reproduced because it excels at agility, flyball or chasing frisbees.
- you don't know where the puppies are, if they are safe and cared
for, or what they are doing after they leave your house at 6 - 8 weeks
old.
- you have no idea how to spell the breed's name.
- some breed specific ones because ......well we all know pit bulls have some of the most ill educated breeders on earth, LOL
1 you think blue or red nose is "rare" and a reason to charge more
2 you advertise the dogs are going to grow 100lbs or more
3 you advertise 'massive heads, short, low to the ground, stalky"
4 you think merle is a cool new pit bull color
5 you spell it pitbull-one word......without the American Terrier in the description
6 UKC champion-no papers-$900
- GSD specific ones...
1 You try to pass off a husky mix as a Panda Shepherd
2 shepard, sheppard....need I say more?
3 You think an all black is rare so you raise the price
4 You specialize in "old world" GSDs (ie, fat dogs with sagging stomachs and plush coats)
5 You think GSDs are closely related to wolves (GSDs are one of the newest breeds!)
6 Potential buyers can't meet the puppies' parents because they will bite their hands off!
7 You think the dogs have a great pedigree because "they go back to
Horand!" (Horand was one of the original GSDs, lol, they ALL go back to
Horand!)
8You are proud of the fact that your stud dog weighs 120lbs
- you advertise in the local paper "Puppies ready just in time for Christmas!!!"
-You think de-worming a pup and giving him a Rabies vac. is all the health care he needs
-You advertise the pups as Champion Show quality when only the grandfather on the fathers side is a champion
-You think you know more then the adverage dog owner because you have bred over 200 litters of pups in the past year
-You get excited when you have a brood female who has many pups per litter, because you know you can breed her more
-You think a neutered dog is worthless because all dogs should the able to breed (WTF?)
-You think all cross bred dogs are super healthy and so are better then any purebred
-The more a dog is worth the more their puppies will be worth
-You think theres nothing wrong breeding two blue eyed white dogs together
-Every litter you have is unplanned, but you have to charge to cover the extra expense of all that puppy chow.
-This is the third consecutive unplanned litter from the same bitch in a year and a half. Who'da thunk?
-When people come over to your house, they go straight to the
bathroom(or the shed, or under the back steps) to see the newest litter
of puppies.
-you brag about how many people want to buy your puppies but end up
giving them away on Craigs list with a note in the add that says "Must
go by
Sunday or they go to the pound!"
-when you ask a random dog owner if they want to breed.
- you buy a male and female dog or cat and think you can cash in on them since they were featured the latest Box Office Hit
-You label the bitch as a bad mother because she stops nursing the
pups at 3 weeks old when in fact the pups are too weak to eat because
they're filled with worms because you didnt know you could worm puppies
at 2 weeks of age.(every label on every bottle of wormer TELLS you to
do this!)
-when you give no thought to the medical costs of breeding
1 The deworming
2 the shots,
3 the exams.
4 The complications of birth and rushing the bitch to an emergency hospital.
5 Because the costs are staggering on a well-bred intentional
litter, alone, you call it "Natural Selection" when half or the entire
litter dies.
-When you do lose an entire litter you call it a waste of time, the bitch a bad breeder, and trade her out for another one.
-You sell "Hypoallergenic" dogs.
The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated - Gandi