06/29/2023
Very well said!
To anyone wanting any puppy during their life:
Please read
Buying a well bred puppy
Buying a back yard bred “BYB” Puppy
Buying a puppy from a shelter or rescue
Receiving any puppy from someone for free
Regardless of which route you go,
there is absolutely NO guarantee that a puppy will develop into a dog with 0 medical issues of any kind for the life of the dog.
Let me repeat that:
Regardless of which route you go,
there is absolutely NO guarantee that a puppy will develop into a dog with 0 medical issues of any kind for the life of the dog.
When you buy a well bred puppy from an ethical breeder, what that means is you are increasing your “odds” of a better “chance” you will get a healthy dog with longevity as the lines of that dog are proven to uphold that.
When you buy a back yard bred “BYB” Puppy then you get a dog with typically unknown lineage, per say, from someone who did not health test / prove longevity in parents & lines so your chances increase for medical issues.
Buying a puppy from a shelter or rescue or Receiving any puppy from someone for free is a complete blind hope that nothing medical develops as most are extremely unknown lines, or breed / origin ect.
When / if you choose to pick a breed of dog, you MUST accept and understand the good AND bad that is prone to that breed.
Well bred does NOT mean “always perfect”.
Well bred means “higher chance of longevity”, but understanding that puppies are living creatures and you cannot predict the future when it comes to facilitating life (of any kind).
There is a stigma that any “ethical” or “reputable” breeder will *never* produce any dog that ever has skin, eye, heart, thyroid, orthopedic, GI ect or temperament issue, but if that’s truly the case then there are NO “ethical” or “reputable” breeders out there then because it HAS & WILL happen (at least one of these) in every single program (especially the longer you are breeding).
There is absolutely no guarantee of perfect life of any kind.
When you buy / adopt a puppy (or any form of life), it’s not to one day get “fully refunded” if any issues arise and be so blind with anger from where the life came from?
It’s to love & care for that life YOU chose to buy & take responsibility of and if it is too much for you to truly handle, any reputable breeder will GLADY receive the dog back to care for him / her.
It’s exhausting watching breeders (including myself) get thrown around for breeding fully health tested well bred dogs - but then have any issue arises with an offspring - then immediately get labeled with derogatory words & hate comments along with hatred from homes with these dogs (but that love who their dogs are and won’t return them).
If I’m buying an object, a machine, something made in a factory to be ABC way, yes, I’d expect that product to work like it was sold to me to do.
If I am buying / adopting a life, a living creature?
How can I get mad if this life ends up with a medical issue even when the origin was doing everything “right” to prevent those things from ever occurring.
There is a culture of “I need someone to blame” when in reality, we become happier when we accept reality and that *all life* is unpredictable.
Remember at the end of the day,
breeders are humans too.
We have emotions, most of us try our absolute best to prevent things from occurring and then go & try to do everything we can to “make it right” if they do occur.
We spend tens of thousands of our own money on everything to prevent any issues, thousands of hours bringing life into this world / selecting the “best” homes / opening our home to complete strangers / devoting our life to these creatures *and we do deserve respect* for providing dogs that you are able to love and to love you back, dogs that you don’t want to let go because you have deeply been able to bond with them.
Regardless of how you feel about your breeder, if you love who your dog is - there is something they did right, because they paired a home to a dog that shares a bond beyond words.
Coming from someone who buys puppies for myself to raise from other breeders and then breeds my own, it’s not easy, “puppies are a gamble” and I’m here to make sure ANY life that comes into mine is cared for until the end of time, breedable or not, every life deserves to be loved and there is no hate to anyone *no matter how a puppy develops to be* as all life is unpredictable even with consistently striving to prevent the unfortunate. 🖤
