I was answering a question in Dogster Answers about breeding. That was several months ago. I had the question on my watchlist and today I saw that a new answer was added. Most active Dogster members are pretty knowledgeable about reputable breeding, but this answer made me want to curse and swear. And I'm not one to do that.
Here's what it said:
All breeders are evil they are comparable to the RIAA or the MPAA. The will lash out at anyone that tries to cut in to there profits. They also have brainwashed the dog community into thinking that breeding your self is dangerous and wrong. Dogs have been breeding the thousands of years amazingly without the help of the breeder Nazis. I say go for it and tell the naysayers were to go! What the WOOF!?!?!?!?!?!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
What a lie! I'd like to shoutthis to this person:
"I'm a future breeder and I care NOTHING for money! Hear that, person who wrote that answer, N-O-T-H-I-N-G! I answer the way I do because I CARE about the HEALTH of the breeds! BREEDING ANYTIME IS DANGEROUS FOR THE DOG, NOT THE PERSON! IT'S WRONG BECAUSE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DOGS PUT DOWN EACH YEAR DUE TO PET OVERPOPULATION AND WHEN DONE WRONG, BREEDING CONTRIBUTES TO THE UNHEALTHINESS OF THE BREED!!!!!!
In the "old days" there weren't any health tests and the genes were HEALTHIER. Dogs and people were tougher. Breeding "back then" was simpler."
DOESN'T THIS PERSON KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BREEDING? Doesn't sound like it.
Oh well, I guess I should be thankful that only very few questions get these kind of answers. I just hope that this person doesn't answer any more recent questions about breeding. Thankfully, the writer of the question that this person answered has probably been abandoned by the owner. The writer said that she wished to do research and has hopefully already done it and made her decision. I pray it was the right one.
But I know that the best way to talk to that person, if I did, would be to be polite. I won't be talking to her though, much as her words anger me. She has obviously been told about breeding and are not receptive to be educated. Where she got her "info", I have no idea. But it's obviously keeping her from the light. So, I'm not going to be talking to them. I'd rather talk to people who are more open to the truth. Like the people in my town.