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by jillmissal on 19 December 2020 - 22:12

As many of you know, health testing is super important to me. What is blowing my mind currently is the huge influx of backyard breeders charging huge amounts for puppies - with no health testing of the parents, no titles, no nothing. And in many cases the breeding stock...well, it leaves something to be desired, let's just put it that way.

Yet somehow people get sucked into buying puppies at enormously inflated prices from these people. Meanwhile, actual reputable breeders charge much less for higher quality animals. I will just never understand it.

Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 20 December 2020 - 02:12

Me neither. I read somewhere that the average person has to see or be told a public msg 8 times before it sinks in !

Given that msgs about not buying animals without doing due diligence on breeders/souces, and health tests; not buying animals unless you have carefully considered whether you can really afford them & the ongoing expenses; not buying or otherwise taking on animals unless you are sure you can offer them a suitable home, with comfortable conditions & longterm commitment ... are all easily available, all around us, so they must get seen (if not paid attention to !) often, I just despair about the mentality of a lot of buyers.

Even if the 'market rate' for a breed is not always so obvious, it doesn't take long - when you DO such research - to 'get a feel' for the right price range of puppies.

But there are obviously still lots of people with more money than sense ... and lots of people who are greedy enough to take full advantage of that.


mrdarcy (admin)

by mrdarcy on 20 December 2020 - 06:12

Hundmutter, what you said above...never a truer word was spoken " But there are obviously still lots of people with more money than sense ... and lots of people who are greedy enough to take full advantage of that. "


Baerenfangs Erbe

by Baerenfangs Erbe on 20 December 2020 - 10:12

And yet the responsible breeders are called "greeders"

by jillmissal on 20 December 2020 - 12:12

Right! And the thing that really kills me is that health testing is not even that hard or expensive! OFA costs $400 with x rays MAXIMUM. These people make six times that selling ONE puppy. There is just no excuse for it, I just don't understand it one bit.





 


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