How many babies in this belly?

Person_one

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

the benefit to the dog long term in having the one litter.

Please, enlighten me!

Mrs_Arcanum

Person_one wrote: »

Please, enlighten me!

I do not have dogs so personally cannot say. Nor should this need to be justified to some stranger on a forum.

I have worked at the Blue Cross and many rescue centres are very strict about who they will allow animals to go to, regardless of family knowledge and experience. So non rescue dog availability is still needed.

Person_one

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

I do not have dogs so personally cannot say. Nor should this need to be justified to some stranger on a forum.

I'm afraid your friend has been misinformed, but it is a really common misconception.

There is no need for a !!!!! to have 'just one' litter at all, or any long term benefit to it.

Mrs_Arcanum

Person_one wrote: »

I'm afraid your friend has been misinformed, but it is a really common misconception.

There is no need for a !!!!! to have 'just one' litter at all, or any long term benefit to it.

Still the simplest way to get a companion for her own dog, who was herself a companion to a previous dog.

There is a huge Jack Russell community locally and they are frequently proper working dogs as they are excellent ratters.

Still it seems like anything other than rescue you would class as irresponsible. Irresponsible for me is neighbours Staffy breeding twice. Yet all the dogs were quickly homed.

Person_one

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Still the simplest way to get a companion for her own dog, who was herself a companion to a previous dog.

There is a huge Jack Russell community locally and they are frequently proper working dogs as they are excellent ratters.

Still it seems like anything other than rescue you would class as irresponsible. Irresponsible for me is neighbours Staffy breeding twice. Yet all the dogs were quickly homed.

Not at all, I believe it is entirely possible to be a responsible breeder, I just have high standards for what counts as one, given that upwards of 7000 dogs are killed every year because they were bred surplus to demand.

BECKIN1507

This post was meant to be a friendly, fun chatty one, now its just a arguement. Person_one I think you've put your opinion across, there is no need to keep arguing about it. Why not just post what you think is responsible breeder is and leave it at that. You are not really making alot of sense, you said you thought that people who had waiting lists for puppies are resposible breeders but do you not realise what the dogs lives are like? People that have waiting lists are usually (not always) big breeders and once the dogs have breed as much as they can they're disposed of. I'd much rather people had a litter off their family pet than just use a dog as a breeding machine. Take a look at how many ex breeding dogs there are at Many tears rescue. That is not responsible breeding in my eyes, but you are intitled to your opinion. Could you not just be a bit nicer about the way you put your opinion across?

Person_one

I honestly don't even know where to start with the amount of misunderstanding and misconceptions in that post.

notakid

Personaly I would have held my tongue as I think your thread is a lovely one as you are excited over the birth of the pups and your dog is beautiful. But what is done is done so I'll add my two pennies worth.

Everything Person one says is true. She is not meaning to be harsh, she is just pointing out the obvious.

I'd never have a pup, too much hard work! I like my Dogs to be adults, problems or not. I've known plenty of loony dogs brought up by one owner, not rescues, so I don't think your one experience should put you off. All dogs are different.

I own rescue, A KC Reg Lab. Beautiful dog with amazing temp and two Persian cats again wonderful creatures. If these are rescue there is certainly is something wrong in allowing your pets to breed.

However, as you say, you obviously are a caring owner who is trying to make sure that all the animals will have good homes. But sometimes the truth stings. Maybe that's why you are reacting against Person ones posts instead of ignoring?

Kaelea

I'm going for 6! 2 boys and 4 girls


do we win a pup if were right? (I'm joking before certain moaning minnies shoot me)

purple.sarah

BECKIN1507 wrote: »

This post was meant to be a friendly, fun chatty one, now its just a arguement. Person_one I think you've put your opinion across, there is no need to keep arguing about it. Why not just post what you think is responsible breeder is and leave it at that. You are not really making alot of sense, you said you thought that people who had waiting lists for puppies are resposible breeders but do you not realise what the dogs lives are like? People that have waiting lists are usually (not always) big breeders and once the dogs have breed as much as they can they're disposed of. I'd much rather people had a litter off their family pet than just use a dog as a breeding machine. Take a look at how many ex breeding dogs there are at Many tears rescue. That is not responsible breeding in my eyes, but you are intitled to your opinion. Could you not just be a bit nicer about the way you put your opinion across?

I'm afraid you're not making much sense. Having a waiting list for puppies simply means the breeder knows where the puppies are going, not that they are a puppy farmer! There are plenty of dogs in shelters because people thought it would be fun to let the family pet have a litter of cute puppies and couldn't find homes for them all. I hope you can find homes for all the puppies but that really should have been done before breeding the b!tch, it's just common sense. I hope you didn't skip other important steps like health checks. Most Ridgebacks are now X-rayed for hip dysplasia prior to breeding.