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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend’s family are Mennonite dog breeders. They have one female they breed at a time but  she has a litter basically every year. The dogs do always seem well cared for, clean, live in their house with them, etc. But I don’t know how good it is to be bred that often. Or maybe that isn’t often for a purebred breeder?[/quote]

Walk talking to a breeder recently and he said they only breed each mom 3x. They are AKC registered I couldn’t bare to ask what happens when they can’t be bread anymore. [/quote]

FWIW my grandma was a registered breeder and she only bred her female dog one or two times each, she just had 5 or 10 year gaps between litters.  The moms were just family pets.  [b]But she was a hobby breeder and she always lost money on [/b]it.[/quote]

This is the thin[b]g — if the animals are properly cared for, you don’t make money.[/b] Legit breeders are in it to advance the breed. That’s why there are virtually no legit doodle breeders. There is no breed standard to conform to and there is a huge market; a recipe for abuse/neglect.[/quote]

Not sure this makes sense to me. Why would anyone breed dogs then? Or very few would, right? It’s a lot of work and if they’re losing money… [/quote]

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