One Thing I'll Never Understand...

[mohavedatura]

First of all, let me say that I have nothing whatsoever against people getting a dog from a reputable breeder. When I was looking for a little dog, I was getting a bit frustrated with our shelter and considered just giving up after the second dog I tried to adopt from them was stolen. Shelters are not perfect. Neither are rescues. And while I

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[childinthegrave]

i live in pa. it is pretty pathetic. when it's not puppy mills, it's BYBs, or it's just plain old ignorant asswipes who don't get their dogs fixed (ok, so my puppy just had her first ~cycle~ and i technically fall under the ignorant asswipe category, but that's only because it's the middle of winter, we're broke, and didn't realize she was ~of age~ yet).

and i agree about rescue/shelter dogs, wholeheartedly. the two most loving, obedient, intelligent dogs i've ever known in my entire life, were both from the local SPCA. one was my father's dog, yukon, who passed a few years ago at the ripe old age of 16 and the other is our dog diamond that we have now. it's almost like they realized they were rescued, and were/are grateful.

our other dog, nugget, was the result of a backyard breeding. the runt of a litter o' 12. the mother never saw a vet, before, during OR after pregnancy. i mean, i know the people, and they didn't intentionally breed the dogs, but they sure were hyped to make money off them and were incredibly irresponsible about it. they had two females and a male living together, wtf did they expect to happen? luckily they found homes for all of them, except nugget. poor thing was living with three other adult dogs, one of whom bit and scarred her at 5 weeks (her daddy, actually), in a house the size of my living room. we weren't supposed to be allowed another dog, but we convinced the landlord for her sake. i consider her a rescue, too lol. she would have died there, i think. or been aggressive like her father.

when the puppies were first born, they were put outside in a big baby pen/gate on rocks. me and my fiance went there when they weren't home to lay down straw and clean the encrusted puppy shit off the rocks under them. it was fucking gross and i still get angry inside when i think about it. they did take our advice in the end, though. kept the puppies for the proper length of time (they were going to let them go at like, 4.5 weeks), kept them clean, used the hay we brought.

long comment is long. and senseless.

i just like to talk about my doggehs :X

[mohavedatura]

Naw. I think a lot of people will let an animal go during its first heat. My cat Sonic's first heat crept up on me too, especially since she didn't yowl like other cats do. So we're in the same category :) I don't think you earn 'ignorant asswipe' unless you just let your dog keep going into heat, all the while being shocked and surprised that she is producing puppies.

One of my coworkers (who is the sweetest lady in the world) does this. Her little chi is way too tiny and sickly, enough so that all but one of her first litter died. She just produced another litter - sired by the surviving puppy. When CW was telling me, she says "Can you believe she's pregnant again? I tried to keep them apart, but the boy was crying for her. It was soooo cute!" I adore this lady or else I'd tell her she was probably going to kill her little female.

And that's OK :) I tend to be long and senseless, too :) It's why I love LJ so much.

Hey, so what we hear out here about the puppymills in PA... is it exaggerated?