By the way....Don't breed....you kill a shelter pet.
PETA seized the moment as an opportunity to blame the killing of shelter animals on people who buy from breeders. The organization’s TV commercial, “Buy One, Get One Killed” ran in Delaware after the Biden puppy story made headlines.
She was found “not guilty” for each citation, but hiring a lawyer for the court hearings has cost her $4,000 so far in legal fees.
Brown says she and Biden both received death threats from animal activists.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Bidens-Puppy-Breeder-Never-never-never-again.html?yhp=1
I can get a "new" collie, certified to have no eye or hip problems, for $500. Why in the world would I pay $450 for a "used" collie (that's what the local collie rescue charges) with no such certifications?
Should I clean my plate because of hungry children in China too? Does buying a fine suit at Macy's starve those dependent on thrift shop sales of used clothes? The logic is ridiculous. Any and all actions other than adopting a shelter pet will result in the death of a shelter pet, no? By a computer to visit FreeRepublic...kill a shelter pet because that money could have gone to the pound instead of to Dell or Apple.
I recently bought a puppy. I wanted a freshly weened, brand new life of the breed I was interested in; not an adult animal from knows where. I searched around and asked people I saw with the breed I liked where they got their dog, and if they would recommend the breeder. The brand new, carefully bred puppy I brought home had absolutely nothing to do with dogs in shelters facing the needle. I didn't want one of them, and bear no responsibility for their predicament. I'm sorry they are unwanted and will likely die, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with me, my puppy, or the breeder that created him. Since when did getting a family pet become an exercise in forced altruism.
I'd buy a dog from a breeder well before I'd ever consider a shelter dog again. Shelters are too expensive and my wife had to answer more questions and jump through more hoops than we did when we bought our damn house. They even called our vet to get copies of our current and previous pet's records, I was away on business at the time and they would not let my wife take the dog until I could make a trip back to town and sit down with them so they could interview me. WTF?!
I told them to kiss my butt, I'd rather go to a puppy mill. I called a friend who had a dog similar to what the wife and kids wanted, asked him for a contact number, called the breeder, met him the next day with the family and went home with an 8-week old miniature dachsund to keep our black lab company.
It's the people that think they care most who are the reason more dogs die in shelters each year. People are too damn stuck on themselves to realize they are the problem.