Re:Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred
by AlbertCory on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:11PM
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> The term is often used to refer to people running extremely sketchy for-profit operations
Yeah, no question. There are also people, like the family I got my first cat from, that like to breed animals and do their best to be kind to them. Perhaps some term that doesn't conflate the two groups would be preferable.
> Perhaps some term that doesn't conflate the two groups would be preferable.
100% agreed. I don't give a shit whether someone I buy a puppy from is (let's be real) a sufficiently certified canine eugenicist. I care whether they are kind and responsible and attentive with the animals in their home. That's it.
The term is often used to refer to people running extremely sketchy for-profit operations (basically very small scale puppy mills). Operations like that often falsely present themselves as the more innocent 'oops my grandma's dog and my dog bred one time because we didn't know hers wasn't fixed' type.
Traditional breeders have all kinds of other problems. Imo there's not really any great way to get a puppy, ethically speaking