RESPONSIBLE BREEDERS Many people know to avoid puppy mills and backyard breeders. But many kind individuals fall prey to the picket-fence appeal of so-called responsible breeders and fail to recognize that no matter how kindly a breeder treats his or her animals, as long as dogs and cats are dying in animal shelters and pounds because of a lack of homes, no breeding can be considered responsible. All breeders fuel the animal overpopulation crisis, and every time someone purchases a puppy or a kitten instead of adopting from an animal shelter, homeless animals lose their chance of finding a home—and will be euthanized. Many breeders dont require every puppy or kitten to be spayed or neutered prior to purchase, so the animals they sell can soon have litters of their own, creating even more animals to fill homes that could have gone to animals from shelters—or who will end up in animal shelters or so-called no-kill animal warehouses themselves. Simply put, for every puppy or kitten who is deliberately produced by any breeder, an animal in an animal shelter dies. Producing animals for sale is a greedy and callous business in a world in which there is a critical and chronic shortage of good homes for dogs, cats, and other animals, and the only responsible breeders are those who, upon learning about how they contribute to the overpopulation crisis, spay or neuter their animals and get out of the business altogether.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:31:37 +0000
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