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[quote=Anonymous][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 thing — if the animals are properly cared for, you don’t make money. 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]

Op above. I posted above but to add again, my dh looked for more local breeders and they are charging 5 times the price. Crazy. It’s so hard to find a good breeder [/quote]
Ethical breeders and puppy mills sell products that look very similar, but are not the same quality. You can get a burger at a fast food restaurant or a fine steakhouse, but the organic grass fed Kobe beef is going to cost more than the 80/20 ground beef with fillers, even if they’re both burgers. Which is your priority, the affordable burger or the highest quality burger?[/quote]

Not sure this is a great analogy but I have to assume someone charging 3 to 5k for a dog is doing it to make some money, no? You indicated above (I think, someone did) that it should be solely a ‘labor of love’, no? [/quote]

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