Sentences with phrase «commercial breeders often»

Commercial breeders often inbreed (mother to son, daughter to father, etc.) or linebreed too closely, especially since they have no interest in producing better specimens of the breed.

While pet stores and commercial breeders often use the newspaper to advertise, most of the ads for puppies and kittens found in the classifieds are placed by private people.

Not exact matches

A breeder that will sell their dogs without papers is often a back yard breeder or commercial breeder who does not do any genetic testing and for a lower cost you could end up with a puppy that has luxating patella's, leg perthies disease, cataracts or perhaps something worse like a liver shunt or heart defect.

That means that even legal, USDA approved commercial breeders can (and usually are) forcing dogs to live in tiny, cramped cages, often stacked one on top of the other.

Too often one finds that the large commercial operations spend much less on their breeding programs, and charge far more for their puppies than that done by the independent breeder.

Puppy - selling web sites are often nothing more than glorified marketing sources commercial breeders use to reach the uninitiated.

Thomson told The Washington Post that she and her husband regularly visit the 50 different commercial breeders, most often in Missouri and Iowa, from whom they source their puppies to vouch for their living conditions.

One of them is the often repeated statement that all commercial breeders are «puppy mills» where breeding stock and very young puppies are kept under horrendously filthy, overly crowded and inhumane conditions.

It's a move intended to help bring an end to the «puppy mill» industry, into which an estimated 10,000 large - scale commercial pet breeders produce some 2,000,000 puppies per year, often in unthinkably cruel conditions.

As a result, publicity campaigns highlight kennels where dozens or hundreds of dogs are kept in poor conditions, but the bills themselves often target responsible hobby and commercial breeders with far fewer breeding dogs.

Horse breeders are usually not required to do this, but often find it to be a good form of commercial promotion to include a stable name or farm initials in the horse's name.

Often, these animals come from backyard breeders or large - scale commercial breeding facilities that churn out animals for a profit while the adult breeding animals are confined to life in a cage.