Dog breeding  

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I've been an Animal Breeder all my Life. As a teenager My dad gave me 2 purebred, unrelated cattle of opposite gender. These cattle were the for bearers of a herd that numbered more than a hundred. Presently, I raise honeybees for the production of Honey. I probably have more than 40 Million. (now that's a Lot of Breeding!) Honeybees are the Number One Pollinators of our food crops. A food plant that is "pollinated" is effectively "bred" or "fertilized". Without any "breeding", whether insect, plant, or animal, our world would be very short Lived!

if you mean getting a breeder, no I would go to the pound, but if you want to preserve any breed you have to bread the two dogs of the same breed together, otherwise the breed dies out.

My favorite breed is yorkshire terriers.

I believe that dog breeding is such a big responsibility, why would you like to breed, do you know enough about it, where will the puppies go and do you have the money for food and vet care. So I think it should be done with the best of intentions and not for money making. I'm not against breeding, I'm against irressponsible breeding. I would rather adopt from a shelter though than buy from petshops.

Some people make good money at it but me I fall in love with them and cant give them up I wouldnt be a good breeder

I have no argument here, and the only dogs I've ever had (and Loved) were absolute mutts--but beautiful and Loving in their own right.

I would suggest, though, that some dogs/breeds probably make better bloodhounds, better hunting dogs, better guard dogs, better watchdogs, better sheepdogs, better seeing eye dogs, better protectors, better companions for children, better search and rescue animals, better drug dogs, etc...
So, without really knowing the specifics on that, I would throw out the notion that if a particularly breed is better as a seeing eye dog, then we need to keep breeding those, if one kind of dog is a better search and rescue breed, then we better keep breeding those.
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I believe breeding dogs should be left to the professional dog breeders - they know what they are doing. There is more to breeding than just mating two dogs, and it can end in disaster if you don't know what you're doing.
My favourite dogs are poodles and shih-tzu's; I have 2 little shih-tzu dogs at the moment and they are a lovely, friendly dog, great personality and very loyal.

I've had various dogs all my life. Over the last30 years I have had mini dachsunds. When I got my first one I briefly thought of breeding her with our next door neighbors dachsund. We were thinking of one breeding and then having her spayed. But I decided against it for a funny reason. I wanted my dog to have the fun dog personality not the "mother" personality. I dont have a problem with good breeders but sometimes they are hard to find. I would love the shelter dogs just as much. What bothers me is people who overbreed or dont pay attention so that their pets dont breed too much. People seem to want dogs in their family but many times they dont realize the needs of the dogs or other animals. Not every dog breed with fit with every home. If people would take more time and interest many there would not be so many animals in shelters begging for nice homes. All they want is a little love.

My opinions on dog breeding has changed, since I had my dalmation bred with another dalmation in hopes of making some extra money. Instead of having 6, she had 12. After I was able to sell some and gave away the rest. I learned that my mom was right, it was bad luck to sell puppies. So now that my dalmation was stolen, and I own a beagle and a mixed bred. I will never sell another dog again. I did pay for our beagle. We got her from a Beagle farm. The guy raises them for hunting, when he learned we were going to keep her as a house dog, he wanted to buy her back, at double what we paid. Ladybug is going on 10 and very spoiled. We got our mixed bred, Shiloh at a Walmart parking lot. A family was giving her and her siblings away for free. She's been with us for a year, and still learning not to run away. She's also learning fast that being spoiled as Martha Stewart says is a good thing.

I agree that it's ridiculous that people are purposely breeding animals while there are thousands of animals in shelters that need homes. It's terrible really that people can bypass animals that desperately need homes just because they want a little 'designer dog' or a rare breed.
My dog is from the RSPCA and I couldn't imagine having any other! My mother wanted to get an Australian Bulldog but i talked her into rescuing one from the shelter. We're so glad we did because Eddie is just the light of our lives!here is a pic of him.