How many dogs can someone care for adequately? - Page 3

Profile:  Large breeding/show kennel, 2 breeds, on average 20-30 adult breeding dogs, 20-some youngsters, 15-20 litters a year. 

Owners: national/international judge and veterinarian/vet. professor.  Both retired from normal jobs.

One hired helping hand, works average 4-5 hours a day

One large breed of dog, one small breed of dog. 

Small dogs stay inside in individual crates overnight, in the daytime they get an average of 2 hours of free run in a fenced in acre area, and then divided up into 3 or 4 groups and kenneled in large runs the rest of the day.

Large dogs are kenneled either individually or doubled up per kennel run.  2 or 3 groups of dogs get take turns running a large 3 acre fenced in area every day. 

Kennels are attractive, lots of landscaping, charming place.  Visitors everyday.  dogs take turns getting to come in the house,  average 10 dogs in the house. 

Dogs are all regularly groomed, vetted, kennels cleaned twice a day, 3 different fenced in areas for dogs to run and play, including pond for swimming. 

I think the breed of dog is a very important factor when considering how many dogs a person can handle, some breeds are very easy to take care of, others require a ton of time, whether it's for grooming/maitenance or for training to achieve proper titles for that breed.  Some breeds require almost no grooming, have relatively good genetic health and are for companionship purposes only so other than obtaining health tests, conformation and temperament titles, they really don't need any other titles to prove their worthiness to breed and therefore would be much easier to have a much larger number of dogs like these.

oops, should say, the previous post is not about me, it's a profile for a kennel I used to work for. 

DoFear is speaking of Abhay's post some time ago that he has around 60 dogs that he has taken in that were mostly strays and rescues.  He has stated in the past that the he exercises them in large groups by taking them on walks and swims on his property.

Perhaps DoFear, who seems only to care about numbers of dogs he feels comfortable with, would rather see these dogs be PTS or left to fend for themselves. He has deliberately lumped this situation with that of a backyard breeder to manipulate people to agree with him. This because he can't bully and get his way.

Perhaps he advocates all the people who care for large numbers of rescues to put them to sleep as well. It just seems as though a supposed dog lover would appreciate that someone would have compassion on these dogs. He also implies that this can't be done because Abhay must have a job to support this. Ironic because DoFear himself is retired and still works from home selling comic books, of all things on Ebay.  Maybe he's met Abhay at some time in the past and has had a falling out with him and this is how he knows the guy doesn't have much the same finacial situation.

Any way around it, he is being deliberately demeaning because someone besides him is doing a humanitarian deed.  Now watch and you'll see him make another thread addressing Abhay, or me for pointing out what DoFear is doing. This under the guise of not addressing us because we won't give the same sort of "biography" he has.

Thought ya'll might like to see some of my comic books that I sell and collect.  Here is Spiderman #1, worth a few grand or ten, if I was of a mind to sell it, but not yet.  It keeps going up and up

Here is Buck Rogers #1 from 1939.  Last one like this one, sold for over five grand.  I'm not ready to sell mine yet.

Silver Streak #nn (means "No Number").  Not that valuable, about 500 or 600  hundred, except this one used to belong to Nicholas Cage.  I got it from him in a trade.  He got one of my books that he wanted and gave this to me in trade along with 2 grand.  He's a nice guy.

Best Comics #1 from 1939.  First black superhero in a comic book.  Tough book to find.  In 1939 they just didn't have black heroes.  Skies the limit on it's value.  Only a couple around.  Interesting fact about this book.  In issue #2 and on, they changed the "Red Mask" ( the black hero) to a white guy.  Must have been some pressure from somewhere.

Last but not least, Iron Man #1, autographed by Stan Lee.  Worth about 800 or so.  But going up.  They are making an Iron Man movie and that always increases the value of the number one issues.  I could do this all night and the rest of the month.  I hve about 20 or 30 thousand books like these.  Been collecting since 1962.  Real dumb hobby huh.

       ...hee...hee...hee...can you say cut and paste?

Here are the above books with some others, in a pic that I just now took.  On the same sofa as in the pic I have on my fainting goat thread, where Meat Head is relaxing.  These books on the sofa are the ones above with the addition of Spiderman #2, Fantastic Four #1(very valuable), Roy Rogers #1, Lone Ranger #1, Is This Tomorrow #nn (very rare), Fantastic Four #48 (first appearance of the Silver Surfer and a very hot book right now), and CatMan #29 (extremely rare).  All told, about two hundred grand, give or take 20.  As I said previously, I have thousands and could do this all month.  I LOVE showing off my collection.  Anyone want to see more?

P.S.  What smells worse than a wet dog?  answer:  A-Dawg that has been pissed on.