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Irresponsible Breeders The Movie!!!

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Not quite sure what part of the video you don't believe (did you actually watch it?)...from National Geographic News, Animal Gas Chambers Draw Fire in U.S.

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"Nearly four million dogs and cats in the United States are put to death in shelters each year."[/b]
1. PETA is know to routinely falsify/doctor video to support it claims some real some not. Does not mean gas chambers are not used but it is reasonable to question whether any video supplied by Peta is actually real

2. there has never been a comprehensive survey of the actual number of dogs and/or cats put to death by shelters in America. Estimates vary greatly but this all agree on.
a. the vast majority of euthanised animals are feral cats.
b. No attempt is made to seperate owner reliquished pets for the expressed purpose of free euthanasia.
c. No attempt is made to differentiate adoptable animals for those that are not adoptable due to health/injury or behavoir.

3.Dog overpopulation Myth, THe number of puppies produced in the country equal or is less than the number of people looking for puppies. The Number of dogs in shelters is not because of overpopulation but some of these other reason Owner ignorance populates shelters with abandoned dogs and cats
Early in the 1990s, animal rights activists began campaigns to condemn breeders for the death of dogs and cats in animal shelters. "If you didn't breed, we wouldn't have to kill" the pseudo-logic went. "Every puppy you sell means a shelter dog will die." The Humane Society of the US called for a breeding ban until shelters are empty;

...No more. Coalitions and clubs resisting these proposals have new evidence for their case - a scientific study that identifies owner ignorance of normal pet behavior and low or no acquisition cost as the highest risks for surrender of a family pet and concludes that education will help keep many of those animals out of shelters. Gary Patronek VMD, PhD, one of the principle investigators on the study, presented the results at the NAIA Purebred Rescue Symposium in March. The work was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association on August 1, and is corroborated in another study reported in the August 15 issue of the Journal.

Patronek and his Purdue University colleagues concluded that dog owners who pay more than $100 for a dog, take him to a veterinarian more than once a year, and participate in obedience classes are more likely to provide a long-term home for the animal.

...The research was done at the Humane Society of St. Joseph, Mishawaka, Indiana
.5 percent came from pet stores;
3.9 percent from litters produced in the home.
Nearly 20 percent of the surrendered dogs came from a shelter,
About the same number were acquired as strays.
Nearly 41 percent of the surrendered dogs were obtained free from the previous owner[/b]
4. Many all breed shelters are a threat to pet ownership long term
Redefining pet overpopulation: The no-kill movement and the new jet setters
Faced with fewer small dogs and puppies to offer the public, a handful of shelters and organizations have swapped their traditional mission for a new bottom line strategy aimed at filling consumer demands. Simply stated, they have become pet stores. Some are importing stray dogs across state lines and from foreign countries to maintain an inventory of adoptable dogs. Other shelters are misapplying no-kill shelter principles by adopting out seriously ill and bad-tempered dogs. These practices might be well motivated but they create significant new problems for the responsible sheltering community and the public.

... A number of breed rescuers tell us that their local shelters now offer them dogs for placement that should not be adopted. NAIA's experience in fielding calls from people with pet-related problems bears this out. Historically, the majority of calls came from people complaining about dogs they had purchased from irresponsible breeders, commonly called backyard breeders or puppy farms. They wanted information about how to stop puppy mills or how to file consumer complaints. Currently, NAIA also gets calls for help from people who have adopted bad tempered or chronically ill shelter dogs, a phenomenon that almost never occurred as recently as four years ago. [/b]
Importation of foreign stray animals into US shelters threatens health, sustains 'overpopulation'

In many US cities today, campaigns to end 'pet overpopulation' have been so successful that the demand for dogs far outstrips supply. In fact, shelters in many of these cities would have a significant percentage of empty dog runs were it not for the mushrooming practice of moving dogs around from one region to another and from one shelter to another within regions, an activity known somewhat euphemistically as humane relocation.

...According to their own records, one foundation, the Save a Sato 2 program championed by PeTA, has already sent 14,000 dogs to the US. Satos (a slang term for mixed-breed street dogs in Puerto Rico) arrive in US cities practically every day. Dozens of shelters are involved. Some of the shelters NAIA is tracking bring in 100-200 dogs each month and are placing them for $200-$250 each.3

There is another disturbing pattern developing, a trend toward importing progressively younger dogs. Two years ago when NAIA first began researching the issue, the foreign imports depicted on shelter web sites were of varied ages. Today, most of them are puppies. It is easy to speculate that if no one is capturing and altering the illusive strays that produce these orphans, then enterprising rescuers and shelter directors could help developing countries become breeding grounds for stocking US shelters

It is also disturbing to see the animal rights party line being used against breeders to justify importation. The following quote was taken from the web site of the Humane Society of Snohomish County, a Seattle-area importer of dogs from Taiwan.

"By saving Taiwan dogs, we do not feel this takes away from saving a dog at our own shelters. The majority of dogs from Taiwan are small and our own shelters do not have many small dogs. At this time we have over 38 people on our waiting list for small dogs. We feel it is better to bring small dogs in from another part of the world than to have these people going to a breeder.[/b]
Bold added for emphysis many all breed shelter have an anti-breeding bias that is against all breeding resposible or not. THey are importing potential risky dogs. Massachuesetts recently enacted emergency legislation because one such shelter imported a rabid dog. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER TO STRENGTHEN ANIMAL IMPORT LAWS
New Regulations Necessary to Protect Human and Animal Health The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR) announced an emergency order today to strengthen the regulations pertaining to animals brought into the Commonwealth from other states. DAR has found that additional requirements are necessary to prevent rescue organizations, shelters and other groups from bringing animals into the state that pose risks to human and animal health. More than 200 rescue and adoption groups are currently relocating animals to Massachusetts for adoption and sale[/b]
Bottom Line is just as there is a distinction between BYB and Responsible breeders there is a disction between responsible shelters and those that are not. for help in determining the difference see
Ethics in rescue, Basic rules of ethical rescue: and Ethical issues confront purebred rescue groups
 
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