Aibu to be sick of this!! Dog breeders on sm

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Argh I am so sick of opening up fb or instagram etc and friends or people that I know having and advertising dog litters! Most the time cross breeds or their x breed crosses!! Advertising puppy’s for new homes
one has “7 needs new homes aged 8 week’s”
like why have you done it if you don’t have people lined up!! Aibu to think it’s irresponsible and selfish , as I thought dog shelters were over run! I have no issue if people breed responsible eg if there’s demand and they are doing all the research and relevant health testing etc etc but it feels like they are not thinking about anything other than a potential financial gain?

Past two days I’ve seen sausages dog litters looking for homes and cocker spaniels and poodle crosses and doodles etc etc lost count …. small google search tells me there’s over 90 odd litters of one particular breed in my area alone!!!!

even more annoying is them asking questions such as why is my bitch doing this? Why is the puppies doing that? Do I need to worm them etc etc

argh come on why oh why are you asking for advice on Facebook and not your vet or doing the bloody research before hand!!!

is it me or are other people noticing this? It’s making me sad as I am actually a dog and animal lover and I wasn’t against breeding as such until maybe the last year when I’ve been more aware of this

plus another woman I know bred her dog and had issues and all the litter died!! I won’t forget it! Doubt she will too.

job for today is to remove all these posts off my news feed as I don’t want to see it anymore.

Regulating dog breeding, selling, importing (including sperm) would, in my view, be more effective than banning certain breeds. Add to that dog ownership compulsory training and licensing, and real personal responsibility deterrents, as car drivers with cars rather than a dog.

Sorry off topic a bit but this mass breeding currently helps no one other than the breeders finances.

@xis So all the animals in shelters, waiting for homes, should be euthanised?

I've noticed this via a friend who has bought a puppy, the breeder is trying to flog the rest of the brood constantly on Facebook by tagging in those that have already bought them. 🙄

A bit late for existing companion animals like dogs don’t you think?

Although I totally get what you mean if we consider marine parks etc, how anyone can visit such places as entertainment is beyond me.

Or people from England asking for homes in Scotland for their XL Bullies so they can “run free” and not have to be muzzled. The amount of footage I’ve seen with folk crossing the border with these dogs into Scotland is bizarre often followed by comments like “welcome home baby”.

I haven’t seen any SM posts about litters and would guess it’s not a universal experience. I did look at some sites at the puppies recently and did think there were a huge amount of advertisements with very vague information which made me very suspicious. I was also sad ( not surprised ) at the numbers of young adult dogs being rehomed because “ I just don’t have time with the kids - and these were big breeds / working breeds like huskies and border collies.

NB. We are in the early stages of looking at dogs because my DH has just retired so we now have someone at home. I would ideally prefer a rescue dog but we have a cat and that limits the options a lot.

I’m seeing this a lot on local Facebook pages but with kittens rather than dogs. I’m inclined to think it’s people looking to make a quick few £££ due to cost of living, as well as being irresponsible and dim.

Rescues are full of cats and dogs and their litters and still these idiots keep on with their backyard breeding. Makes me so cross.

It just moves to problem to another postcode . Wait until the fb posts start with 'fly high angel, party hard up there without your muzzle'

The thing is, if they loved their xl bullies they can keep them if they follow new rules, ... neutered, muzzled etc and responsible lovely people would do that...

Animals are money spinning for some

It is appalling. Shelters are full. Some really irresponsible mixes - Bull Lurchers, etc. poor things are treated as commodities and go to unsuitable homes.

CleverLilViper
If you want to talk about the environment, I hope to fuck you don't have children...

I’m not advocating for the extinction of a naturally-occurring species so some human reproduction is required.

Unfortunately yes. There are allegedly XL Bullies being bought cheaply for the new owners to get the payout for putting them down.

This is the part I don’t understand when people are trying to find homes north of the border for them, just get them registered, castrated and muzzle trained, job done.

I know the irresponsible ones that bought dogs during lockdown and now around age 3 idh and no longer want them. Quite disgusting and the excuses... don't have time, too big, cannot walk enough... I mean they are selfish, lazy people who are unable to look ahead past the cute puppy.

For goodness sake! My dog (now deceased) wasn't a large or aggressive dog but if a rule had come in to say his breed had to be muzzled, I'd have done it like a shot rather than give him away - I'd have complied with anything to keep him. He is still missed three years after he died and barely a day goes by when my husband and I don't talk about him,

Dog ownership and breeding need to be more tightly regulated as it’s becoming ridiculous. It needs to be made as inconvenient and expensive as possible to own or breed dogs, this would hopefully sort the serious owners from the idiots and the number of dogs would start to fall eventually, it’s as though you can’t move for them in the streets/shops/parks etc and the majority I come across are knobhead owners, seems considerate ones are becoming less and less

ANightmareBeforeChristmas
So all the animals in shelters, waiting for homes, should be euthanised?

I did say that pet ownership should die out when animals currently alive die.

Will Scotland ban them once they have a huge amount of attacks and deaths do you think?

So are the fees for them being pts being waived by vets? When my dear old poorly pup was pts sleep it cost £200 and that was a few years ago.
There wouldn’t be any profit?!

@VegeBurgers thats a really good question. It will be interesting to see, especially as if some dogs into a rescue so have the added stress of that.

This rationale only works if you don't view humans as animals.

Human civilization is no more than it's own almighty termite mound. There's no such thing as unnatural as is done by a species acting as it naturally does. And there are vast, vast numbers of codependent relationships between different species.

There are lots of ethical questions about pet ownership, but since ethics are just something our overwrought little monkey brains came up with once we didn't have to spend all our time finding food, it isn't much of a compelling case for action.

Yanbu - it should be illegal to advertise selling animals on social media. Make it harder for lazy people to buy them, and harder for those trying to make easy money to sell them.

I couldn’t agree more. Up to 10% of the world’s crops are directly or indirectly involved in the production of food for pets yet we can’t feed all the people in the world! Parks where children play are also used as toilets for dogs. Cats kill an horrific amount of wildlife.

@ANightmareBeforeChristmas Exactly, if someone said I had to muzzle, license and spay to keep my dog thats a total non issue .

If someone said I to hop backwards wearing odd shoes and wearing a Santa outfit I would do it if it meant keeping my dog, even if I had owned them for a week let alone a few years.

@Flossflower my view on cats is that they should only be owned if they are kept on your own property via cat proofing such as a catio