Ramblings

[Lynn-Alexandria]

Join our free community today.

Connect with other like-minded dog lovers!

Login or Register

I was on my way home from crufts when I wrote this. Bear in mind that I had not slept in almost two days. Found it in my notebook and figured I would post it here.

This could very well be the rambling of someone who has not slepd in almost two days or it could be something else.

When we take on the responsibility of a dog. We are ultimately taking responsibility of a life. It is our job to feed and care for the dog, teach it, play games with it. And yet so many dogs are ending abandoned, put into rescue centres or worse...

It angers me that someone could wake up one morning and think

"Oh I think I'll get a dog today"

they can go to a breeder (who does not care who their dogs go to) or a pet shop which is worse. This of course before we had internet. Pups and dogs have become so much more easy to obtain. Even ot the point of ordering a pup and having it delivered to your door. People go out and buy a dog as an accessory becyase a famous person has one. Breeders are now breeding designer dogs, where will it end? How far does this have to go on before someone stands up and says "Stop!"?

It gets me that dogs, living creatures are treated like objects. To be bought and sold to anyone who has the right amount of cash in their hand. And eventually when the person who bought the dog gets sick of it they throw it out. The dog is then found traumatised having been passed from pillar to post and eventually ending up on the street.

You only have to look at sites like many tears, lurcher link or greyhound gap to see the sick things that happen to dogs. Having looked on the many tears site, i have found that it is named correctly. To see those poor dogs in such a state. Bitches who are used as breeding machines...to pump out litter after litter. And why? So some greedy indivudual who cares for nothing but linging their pockets with money. It just angers me that people are allowed to get away with this when we are deemed a nation of animal lovers.

Sorry for going on a bit guys...I found this and thought Id post it on here. Also...I found this website...it made me cry the way it was written.

http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/information/po...s/puppyfarming/

 

[imperative]

What u say is spot on Lynn.Some peeps out there who see dogs as commodities.

They forget that a dog is a living creature who needs food,warmth and love.I get angry when people take about them as though they are disposable!

I think the only peeps who get offended by anything u have said here will be those who wear the cap well!

:- "

 

[Tesa]

As someone who has just lost a member of our househould (who was adopted into our lives as some else's cast off pet), I do not think you are rambling at all Lynn. People need to really understand the commitment they make when they decide to buy a pet. It is a lifetime commitment, no different to raising a child. The effort you put in (particularly in the first year) will be rewarded 10 fold. We have an enormous responsibility towards them. Even after they have crossed the rainbow bridge they are still a part of your household and always will be. Many of our friends still talk in general conversation about dogs that are long gone, they are permanently linked to memory's of being newly married or when children were little. Can think of several k9'ers including myself who are the same ie: Dessie & DW o or Janimal & Chip o

 

[wilfred]

they can go to a breeder (who does not care who their dogs go to)

I agree whole-heartedly with many of your points Lynn-Alexandria, but while puppy farmers don't care who their dogs go to, reputable breeders do care. All necessary health checks carried out before mating takes place, homes and prospective owners are carefully vetted, puppies go with contracts which state that if the owner cannot look after the dog at any point during its life, please bring the dog back to the breeder, not go into rescue. That's what I did, I've only had 2 litters and probably won't have any more ever (the responsbility of having a litter is too great, IMO), but I don't want a dog I have bred ever to end up in rescue, I would want it back. As a breeder, I took the decision to have the litter, so I feel I should help out if even 8 years down the line an owner has difficulties.

Perhaps my view may seem extreme, but I know I'm not the only person to take this view.

Gill

 

[Lynn-Alexandria]

they can go to a breeder (who does not care who their dogs go to)

I agree whole-heartedly with many of your points Lynn-Alexandria, but while puppy farmers don't care who their dogs go to, reputable breeders do care. All necessary health checks carried out before mating takes place, homes and prospective owners are carefully vetted, puppies go with contracts which state that if the owner cannot look after the dog at any point during its life, please bring the dog back to the breeder, not go into rescue. That's what I did, I've only had 2 litters and probably won't have any more ever (the responsbility of having a litter is too great, IMO), but I don't want a dog I have bred ever to end up in rescue, I would want it back. As a breeder, I took the decision to have the litter, so I feel I should help out if even 8 years down the line an owner has difficulties.

Perhaps my view may seem extreme, but I know I'm not the only person to take this view.

Gill

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

​

I completely understand Wilfred. My point was aimed at those breeders who do not bother with the health checks and who breed from their dog for the pure and simple reason to make money for them. IMO a true breeder is one who cares deeply about the breed that they are breeding, and who do care where their puppies are ending up.

 

[wilfred]

Thanks Lynn-Alexandria, I think really you and I stand shoulder-to-shoulder on this one. I get so upset about puppy farmers, a girl at work bought a Cavalier King Charles pup from a puppy farmer, and this was AFTER she had asked me where to get a pup from, I had talked endlessly about visiting responsible breeders, health checks, what questions she needed to ask, etc etc etc and she still goes and gets one from a farmer!!! People (the general public) seem to think you pay over the odds to buy a puppy from a breeder, not so - the puppy farmer asked more than a reputable breeder was asking, no health checks done, endless vet bills.

Sorry! I know I'm preaching to the converted!

Gill

 

[Lynn-Alexandria]

Nah Wilfred. Your not preaching. You are giving us your opinion and sharing your experiences. Its shocking how the spend too much for the dog in the first place and then end up spending more money in vet fees with the problems the dog has come for.

 

[wilfred]

I can't understand why Puppy Farmers aren't shut down, doesn't it fall upon local councils to inspect them? Do the inspectors have enough knowledge to do this?

Also why don't the Kennel Club act, they know from their databases who is registering puppies and how often. It is a nice little earner for someone. :rant:

 

[Lynn-Alexandria]

I couldnt agree with you more Wilfred. I think that the Kennel Club, the council and the RSPCA could do more. Something needs to be done because there is no need for it to be happening. It is sick mindless cruelty and should be stopped! :rant: