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by CrysBuck25 on 31 January 2010 - 21:01
Dog breeding as a job? Mandatory training would be in order, first...
1. Working in a kill shelter, taking surrenders, choosing dogs for death, and holding them (or chambering them) when their card is drawn. 12 months, minimum.
2. Working at a vet, when all the overbred, inbred, incest-spawned dogs are brought in for their various health problems, watching a person agonize over having to euthanize a beloved pet because it was attacked by a psycho dog, watching someone try to figure out whether they can save a dog with severe HD, or other crippling disease...The list goes on. This training must go on for another year, at least.
3. Assuming they want anything at all to do with the dog fancy after seeing the dark side of it, then a year spend working in a successful dog kennel/breeder. Training, handling ( to basic titles, anyway), basic veterinary care, exercise, grooming, all that. Minimun of a year spent doing the above plus cleaning kennels, crate (or if the dogs are kept in the house of the breeder, then vacuuming, scrubbing stains, cleaning up the chewed up toys, vomit, all the other pleasant things that come with dogs in the house...) Then, once they are thoroughly acquainted with the work that goes with dogs, then they can begin to assist in breeding, raising pups, and *shock* MORE TRAINING with the new pups, before they go to new homes. The potential dog breeder needs to see the costs involved, between purchasing the dogs or pups, raising, feeding, health maintenance, hip prelims and OFA X rays and certs, training, trialing, titling, health tests and certs, and all the rest of what goes into each and every individual dog every single day. This phase of the mandatory training should last at least two to three years.
Then, and only then, provided they pass all the training, and demonstrate a dedication to their chosen breed, should they be allowed to breed dogs and sell them.
Just my opinion.
Crys
1. Working in a kill shelter, taking surrenders, choosing dogs for death, and holding them (or chambering them) when their card is drawn. 12 months, minimum.
2. Working at a vet, when all the overbred, inbred, incest-spawned dogs are brought in for their various health problems, watching a person agonize over having to euthanize a beloved pet because it was attacked by a psycho dog, watching someone try to figure out whether they can save a dog with severe HD, or other crippling disease...The list goes on. This training must go on for another year, at least.
3. Assuming they want anything at all to do with the dog fancy after seeing the dark side of it, then a year spend working in a successful dog kennel/breeder. Training, handling ( to basic titles, anyway), basic veterinary care, exercise, grooming, all that. Minimun of a year spent doing the above plus cleaning kennels, crate (or if the dogs are kept in the house of the breeder, then vacuuming, scrubbing stains, cleaning up the chewed up toys, vomit, all the other pleasant things that come with dogs in the house...) Then, once they are thoroughly acquainted with the work that goes with dogs, then they can begin to assist in breeding, raising pups, and *shock* MORE TRAINING with the new pups, before they go to new homes. The potential dog breeder needs to see the costs involved, between purchasing the dogs or pups, raising, feeding, health maintenance, hip prelims and OFA X rays and certs, training, trialing, titling, health tests and certs, and all the rest of what goes into each and every individual dog every single day. This phase of the mandatory training should last at least two to three years.
Then, and only then, provided they pass all the training, and demonstrate a dedication to their chosen breed, should they be allowed to breed dogs and sell them.
Just my opinion.
Crys
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