:"People who do this are IDIOTS! *****IDIOTS****!!!!!!! They should all be SHOT! They are EVIL! I HATE THEM ALL!" preferably with spittle flying in every direction. Or, hmm, perhaps that's a little POV.   

 :Although, actually, I as usual straddle the fence on this. I think that educated and responsible breeders can breed whatever they want. The problem is that I think that 99% of average dog owners out there are neither educated nor as responsible as they think they are (if they even think about it, which I suspect is rare, too).  So what I tell people is (as I've said in other places) you'd better have a danged good reason for breeding the dogboth parents excel at agility, or one excels at agility and another at herding, or mom at herding but mom's side has xxx genetic weakness that dad's side, who is a conformation ch, completely counters and we're going to try to breed this out, or like that. And, as you and I both know, "mom is real cute and dad is real sweet and they're both really special dogs" applies to 99% of the canine world, so that does NOT make it a good reason to add to the world's overpopulation.  |