Breeding dogs is an area fraught with emotion and ferociously held opinions. “Backyard Breeder” and “Puppy Farm” bring pictures to mind of neglectful greedy humans exploiting dogs – “for money”. We don’t have nasty names for breeders who deliberately inbreed,… Read more...
Category: Politics and Ethics
I, like many others, believe there is a big difference between ethical and unethical breeders. But some animal rights activists claim this distinction is false, and that all breeders – no matter how well they treat their dogs or choose… Read more...
I can understand why people believe that, as long as dogs are dying in pounds and shelters, it is immoral to buy a puppy that has been deliberately bred. My mother (not a dog lover!) used to believe that, as… Read more...
As I noted in my previous blog post, the Australia’s ‘dog overpopulation problem’ is often greatly exaggerated by anti-breeding campaigners. But there were still 110,348 dogs abandoned in our country in 2012, and this is 110,348 too many. To solve… Read more...
The “adopt not shop” argument begins with the assumption that Australia has a massive oversupply of dogs, and – as a result – hundred of thousands of loveable shelter pets are being put down. Emotive (and misleading) image from Animal… Read more...