The home secretary is seeking "urgent advice" about banning American XL Bully dogs as footage shows one of the animals attacking an 11-year-old girl and a man in Birmingham. Suella Braverman has said the animals are a "clear and lethal" danger after the video of the attack in Bordesley Green emerged on the social media platform TikTok. West Midlands Police are investigating after two men, who were bitten and left with injuries to their shoulders and arms, were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries after the incident on Saturday.
Puppy mills are terrible. As is breeding brachycephalic dogs like pugs, or particularly inbred breeds.
But working dogs are usually part of a deliberate breeding program for a reason. Seeing Eye, for example, breeds their guide dogs specially. You don’t put random mutts in the Iditarod, nor would you use them as livestock guardians or to herd sheep. That breeding program might or might not involve purebreds, but it definitely involves breeding healthy dogs to purpose.
More to the point, though, what’s wrong with someone getting a couple performance titles on a purebred dog, health testing it, and breeding it to another titled, health tested dog that’s as distantly related as possible?
I feel like you missed the point of the person you’re replying to or maybe replied to the wrong one?
Puppy mills that are for profit and abuse animals are not even close to the market you’re talking about. Seeing eye dogs make great sense for breeding purposes since a person’s life can literally depend on it. Actually both of your examples are when a dog isnt a pet first, their primary role is a job. Those aren’t puppy mill type dogs. Seeing eye dogs are probably not going to be from irresponsible backyard breeders. Work dogs are probably from word of mouth in communities that need them.
That doesn’t say “only puppy mills need to end”, but that all dog breeding needs to end because puppy mills are shitty, and we should just have casual oops litters instead.
So you think puppy mills are terrible but using and abusing dogs for their labor is perfectly fine? You really supporting Iditarod?
Abusing dogs for labor? No, I don’t agree with that.
Merely using dogs for labor? That’s fine.
Work is mentally simulating and enjoyable for many breeds of dog. A border collie who actually gets to herd sheep is going to have a lot more fun that day than one who just sat on the couch.
Huskies love running. This past March, a rookie fell off his sled and his team ran the 18 miles to the next station without him.
There’s a reason why tons of dog owners do sportified versions of dog jobs for fun.