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Of course there is a need for a FEW purebred dogs but most purebreds are not working dogs. By the way, even dogs from a shelter are quite easy to train & are actually BETTER dogs than breeder dogs for companion pets. Lucien, if someone doesn't have the "time" to train a shelter dog, how would they have it to train a puppy? All of my dogs are shelter dogs. They all have been inside dogs that have helped raise 7 children(mine & extended family's). RESCUE a dog, you'll be glad you did!

Kayla, please try to understand life my point of view before you begin making any judgements. "Your purebred dogs are genetically sick" My dogs have never suffered from cataracts, hip displaysia, elbow displaysia, or any of the common ailments in dogs. The breeder I get my pups from was scrutinized by me and believe me, I do know how to find a good dog. "If you can't train a mixed breed dog, that is your lack of experience, not the dog's." A Labrador Retriever is bred for retrieving. A Greyhounds is bred for hunting by sight. A Great Pyranees is bred to protect sheep. In this similar pattern, a Smooth Collie is bred to herd sheep and a Bluetick Coonhound is bred to track and tree animals. You cannot give me a Lab and say "Here, I want him to herd sheep." This is not one of his instincts. It is not part of who he is as a dog. Therefore, a mixed breed is not something that I can effectively work with as a sheepdog. On another note, I am known in my area for working with problem dogs. I work with mutts on a regular basis. I am capable of taking an unruly dog (of any breed, mind you) and convincing him that life is much easier and much more fun when he follows the rules his "pack" has set for him. I am perfectly capable of training any dog. I do not know if you have ever seen sheepdog trials, but it is not a task for the faint of heart to attempt to train their dog to respond to various whistles from a great distance. "And your dogs come from breeders that profit from puppy mill money." Another uneducated answer. The breeders that I buy from breed the best dogs for the job that they can. My breeders do not breed for profit. Their pups come with the option to register for AKC, but they breed for dogs with the drive to work. Along with that comes the conformation because a dog with bad conformation cannot perform their job as well as a dog built correctly for it. Where you are getting the idea that all breeders benefit from something as awful as a puppy mill is beyond me. Not all breeders are like puppy mills. I am sorry if you believe that, but there are many breeders who will only have a limited number of litters per year. Both of my breeders are very against puppy mills. Puppy mills and responsible breeders have nothing more in common than the production of puppies. With responsible breeders, the dogs are part of the family and their health is the number one priority. My breeder will spay a female if anything goes wrong with her litter. If something happens that may cause more future complications during whelping, he will spay her immediately and retire her to a luxurious life in the house with his family, regardless of whether she is producing puppies or not. "Puppy mills pay for your dog shows and working dog events. You don't care. That says a lot." Actually, I have never shown my dogs or put them in an event. I don't need to take them out to shows and events and win ribbons in order to be proud of them. They do their job every day and nothing could make me more proud. I do not feel the need to show off my dogs. They don't feel the need to be shown off either. They only feel the need to work. They love their jobs and they don't care if I am the only one watching. Dogs aren't petty like that. "It would be more impressive if you didn't use a dog as a status symbol." I am not really sure what you mean by that. The only thing I use my dogs for is the daily jobs they need to accomplish. As I don't show my dogs or anything, I don't think that they are set as any kind of status symbol to me. They hardly ever even leave the farm. They go to town with me sometimes, but other than that, they have all the entertainment they could ever need out on my land. They have what a lot of dogs don't have. They have many acres of land to explore and they love it. I would love some clarification on this "status symbol" part, if you could provide it. (And coonhounds fill the shelters because the 'working dog' breeders and hunters dump the ones they can't handle" Sweetheart, I am at the local shelters all the time helping families pick out dogs to suit their families and I have never once seen a coonhound mix. As I have to drive two states over in order to get to the nearest coonhound breeder, I can tell you that coonhounds are not a common breeder in my area of the world. They are a rarity. I have yet to even see one in my area other than my own. The issue with mixed breeds for working people like myself who still rely on dogs to accomplish our jobs on a daily basis is that you have a dog with two different ancestries telling it what to do. Say you have a Lab/Collie mix. Half of the dog's instincts are telling it its a retriever and the other half telling it that it's a herder. It is never fully committed or the other. Also, the only way to keep the working instinct in a dog is to maintain the breed. You get too many breeds mixed up into one dog and the dog doesn't have the set instinct for one job. Here is the way I look at it. Mutts are fine for families who live in the suburbs and aren't going to be needing the dog to be more than a companion. But for those of us who require that our dogs have an instinct for a specific task, we require purebreds. The mutts are the ones who come from irresponsible breeders and irresponsible owners. It is not responsible breeders that need to be stopped. It is the irresponsible breeders and owners that need to be stopped.

Instead of out right blame on all breeders PETA should be pushing for teaching people that a pet is for life and to fix animals, then we wouldn't see the number of animals in a shelter. If PETA did this people might actually give them some credit. And no I am not for the AKC dog show.

AKC "show dogs" have more diseases and defects than any mixed breed dog. They don't care. It's a business to sell dogs and that's it.

These breeders can't resist slandering mixed breed dogs so they can make a buck.

AKC is the problem, why dogs are suffering in so many ways.