Cube mk2 and WIR

[bokbokbok]

Puglet - thanks for that - it is good to hear that side too. Please don't think we don't realise that there are *you lot* who care passionately about your pets.

 

If the program had been a little more balanced then I suppose we wouldn't still be talking about it.

[Rhapsody]

Well at the risk of sounding unbalanced I dont agree. There is a massive prejudice in this country in favour of pedigree dogs, and most people really dont care where they have come from as long as they get the dog they have quite randomly set their heart on. Can I draw everyone's attention to this website? http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/dogslookingforhomes.htm

 

Scroll down past the 17 puppies they have to rehome and goggle at the amount of unwanted breeding dogs they have for rehoming. Dont know about anyone else but it makes me quite despair.

 

I think that programme showed that the dog with a pedigree as long as its arm isnt the safe sound bet everyone seems to assume.

[Cooks]

I have to say I have always had dogs, and loved them regardless of pedigree kc status etc.. it never mattered to me.... but... if I had paid good money and did lots of breeder research, and quite possibly waited a while for that chosen breeder (picked from the kc website possibly) to have a litter, I would want to know that I was getting a kind of safeguard that the puppy would indeed look like I was expecting and not have health risks bred into it, but this isn't the case anymore..

 

My rescue Cocker has her kc status and I have her pedigree, her pedigree line isn't a good one and to be honest she's far too tall, she isn't how a cocker should look IMO but does that make me love her any less? No!!! I love her for her, not her breed name, would not have mattered if she was a cocker mix, or anything come to that matter, she needed me.

[Puglet]

Can I draw everyone's attention to this website? http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/dogslookingforhomes.htm

 

Scroll down past the 17 puppies they have to rehome and goggle at the amount of unwanted breeding dogs they have for rehoming. Dont know about anyone else but it makes me quite despair.

 

Here lies the problem. A good breeder would never dream of letting an ex-breeding dog go into rescue like that if they even let them go full stop. They would find a proper pet home for them or if a breeder were to become ill or die would let them go into the proper breed clubs own rescue. In my own breed our rescue there is a two to three year waiting list.

 

I don't like seeing dogs needing rescue as much as the next person. In fact once someone asked about one of my puppies but mentioned that she had come across a dog that needed rescuing, I told her to forget mine and rescue the other dog.

 

It makes you wonder what kind of breeders these dogs come from, puppy farmers perhaps? This is where a lot of problems come from, do puppy farmers health test? Do they breed responsibly? Or is all they care about is making money?

 

Perhaps the programme should have highlighted the plight of dogs coming from puppy farmers or being sold in pet shops.

 

Oh and lets be clear here, we all on this forum own chickens which have been selectively bred for one reason or another, whether to produce eggs, draining their bodies and causing them to die earlier than some pure breeds or when some cockerill chicks are killed because hens are more useful.

 

Again I'm not saying I agree with some practices on the programme, I don't, and I found some things abhorrent. I'm also not pointing fingers at anyone, but does this mean we all have double standards?