They don't want you to drive down the price, and thus their profits, by increasing the supply. But all breeding should absolutely cease until every adoptable cat and dog has a home. Then let the 1% begin, but no selling, not even "at cost" which will quickly be stretched to include the cost of salaries for the breeders, the breeders' mortgages because the home is used for the breeding operation, the costs of acquiring the breeding animals, and of showing them, and of advertising/marketing, etc.
Your ideas about prohibiting people from selling dogs are whacked... The very selective purebred breeders are not the ones causing the overpopulation at shelters. They don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry breeding unproven backyard litters, which is what nina0113 wants to do.
My 2 cents, puppy mills need to go. However, we have 3 pure bread keeshonds. They are a wonderful breed and have champion lines. We wanted to breed the pups, to improve the line. Not to make the big bucks or anything like that.
However our pups have other thoughts. When she is in heat she drives the first male nuts and than once he is calm than goes the second male. It is crazy. She has not had puppies and one of the males is going on 15 but when she is in heat he acts like a 3 year old. Whew.
I find it hysterically funny that someone called government shrinker wants to have some sort of system in place that brings the breeding of pets under the auspices of....the government!
susie
The maddening thing is, I'm not interested in driving down the price of "show-quality" animals - I'd never put an animal through the whole show process, and I'm not interested in breeding for the "perfect ear conformation", or whatever. I'd just like to raise healthy pet-quality kittens, breeding for personality. I remember reading somewhere on here about someone who showed Siamese having bred a mean tom into the line, and SIX GENERATIONS later, all his offspring were still mean. I'd like to have two queens, the sweetest-natured & smartest I could pick out, and go to a breeder every year for stud service from a healthy (and smart & nice) tom. It's not a deeply held dream, or I'd be working to accomplish it - more of a "when I win the lottery" wish.