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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Well … when they give them no medical care and barely feed them and focus on highly marketable breeds … they do come out ahead $ wise. My toy poodle is a mill rescue and she came to us heartbreakingly skinny and full of worms. Before she came to me she was also anemic from fleas. If you don’t care about horrible suffering? You can make money. [/quote]

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