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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The good breeders will care but those are the ones who breed 1-2 litters per year. They are the dog show people.

AKC paperwork shows that your dog is purebred. To have confidence in the background genetics of the parents, multiple tests must be performed depending on breed.

One way to know if your breeder is legit is that they 1- require the dog to be spayed/neutered (unless it’s going to be a show dog and then there’s a whole additional arrangement with ownership) and that as the owner you are required to return the dog to the breeder if there is any reason whatsoever you can’t keep the dog.

I’m so sorry OP. Take good care of your baby.[/quote]

Yep. We’ve been very happy with our breeder so far. They do 1-2 litters per year. Dogs live in their house with them. Our vet said our puppy was clearly well taken care of. The vet said it’s not uncommon for puppies to have worms, but ours does not. They said the breeder did a great job with deworming treatments.

You need to do your research, though, and know what to look for.[/quote]

Curious how many female dogs your breeder owns? A responsible breeder knows a female dog should not have more than 3-4 litters in her lifetime, so if they’ve been producing 1-2 litters per year they must have a big stable of dogs?

Except far too many so-called responsible, AKC registered breeders are breeding their female dogs to exhaustion, and the pups they produce are as healthy as you can expect after developing in a depleted maternal environment.

Mongrel/mixed breed dogs are vastly healthier than purebreds, hands down. It’s sad so many are destroyed every year because people are so fascinated by designer dogs.[/quote]

I posted at 8:32.  The breeder types I referenced do not have ridiculous numbers of females or males and the females do not produce more than 3-4 litters.  Mongrels-mixed are not healthier now or in recent decades because the vast majority of peole who own great dogs get them neutered.

When I was a kid we got  a fine dog who was the result of 2 great dogs who had an unintentional litter.  I also got a rescue - lab+spaniel as a young adult.  Relatives in their sixties always got such dogs and looked for 4 years at shelters and rescues. One elderly woman tookk over 5 years to get a great shelter dog- such a regular checker that she was contacted and the dog never was actually avilable to the public.

Relatives ended up with a lab from a breeder- hunting lines. [/quote]

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