There are no homeless mastiff puppies, just like there are no abandoned new cars littering the highways. Homeless animals are a problem, but stopping the breeding of mastiff puppies is no more the answer than stopping car production is the answer to abandoned cars.
Now if I could just get my girlfriend to litter like that.
>>>There are no homeless mastiff puppies<<<
Puppies are easy to find homes for. I think we are saying that eventually a lot these DOGS wind up mistreated or homeless regardless of their breed or cost.
That is why organizations like the one listed below exist!
http://www.conceptsdesign.com/mastiff/
Good point. I've seen people who grab animals for free or buy them cheap at a pound and the next month will get rid of it, and have a different pet.
I agree that responsible breeders are not the problem. That said, there may not be homeless mastiff puppies, but there are plenty of homeless mastiff dogs -- too often original owners abandon them not for behavior problems, but instead simply when they find out how big they get and how much it costs to feed them.
We adopted a Rottweiler we found abandoned along the highway at a popular doggie-dumping spot (tried everything to find her first family, but couldn't). She's the sweetest, calmest, friendliest, most obedient dog we've ever met; she was clearly loved and well-socialized. We assume she just got too big for her original owners to handle (and they were too ignorant to give her to a breed-rescue program). If we hadn't been able to keep her, she would have ended up in a rescue program and would have made some Rottie lover very happy.