"Professional breeders" refers to individuals or businesses that specialize in breeding animals, such as dogs, cats, or other livestock, as a career or business. They have extensive knowledge, experience, and sometimes certifications in proper breeding practices to produce healthy and high-quality offspring.
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Making preparations and finding some suitable buyers / homes is important here, but knowing whether your cat is pregnant or not is not always easy and can be confusing even
for professional breeders.
The resulting national voluntary certification program sets rigorous science - based standards for the care of dogs and puppies
by professional breeders.
The vast majority of pet stores buy their puppies from high - quality
professional breeders who meet or exceed federal standards for responsible animal care.
The certification program, developed at the request of breeders, has been pilot - tested with 16
professional breeders since early 2015.
Although neighbors and relatives who are
not professional breeders are unlikely to study breed characteristics and genetics, they are a better source of puppies than either a broker or a pet store.
Where professional breeders are concerned with carrying on the best of the breed to develop solid and healthy dogs, puppy mills are instead focused on making money from their dogs.
A
true professional breeder will, also, insist on an agreement with the buyer that the puppy will not be used for breeding purposes.
Remember, a
beginner professional breeder may start out with one bitch at home and grow to a larger operation requiring kennels and hiring people to assist in conducting the activity.
Find one or two
professional breeders who are willing to take you under their wing and teach you what is required to own one of these dogs.
For professional breeders, there should be no more important business practice than ensuring the health and well - being of their dogs.
This is a term used
by professional breeders and competition people and refers to second rate puppies that are produced.
As
professional breeders of German Shepherd puppies trained to be Personal Protection dogs and Family Protection dogs we encourage these extraordinary dogs to posses stability, courage, control, and intelligence through our exclusive German Shepherd Dog Training.
DNA from fresh band - tailed pigeon tissue was obtained from a blood sample from «Sally», a female band - tailed pigeon raised by
professional breeder Sal Alvarez.
In the recent past, dwarf hamsters could only be found
through professional breeders but as the popularity of these small types of hamster breeds among small pet owners has increased, some of these dwarf hamster types are becoming more readily available at local pet stores.
Due to the massive breeding by many
professional breeders due to the high demand of the market, the market is quite saturate in certain places, and price drop recently in the pet trade and making them readily available and affordable for many bearded dragon enthusiasts.
The state's attempt to end sales from breeders followed on the heels of moves by the Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board of Commissioners to ban the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from large -
scale professional breeders.
While the differences between the breeds are slight, most
professional breeders such as the American Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club eschew mixing the gene pools, and treat the two lineages as distinct.
Paperwork is very important for
more professional breeders: they want to sell each puppy with an agreement of sales that will protect both the new owner and themselves.
American Kennel Club (AKC ®) Vice President of Government Relations, Sheila Goffe, said that AB 485 «fails to distinguish
between professional breeders and pet profiteers.»
Using this process,
skilled professional breeders have been able to show increased health, happiness, well - being and an overall increase in the general pep of the dog.
Purchasing a Golden retriever Puppy from a respected,
responsible professional breeder is by far the best option when it comes to getting yourself a good quality, healthy puppy given the best start in life.
«If Happy Tails or any
other professional breeder were to have their license suspended or revoked by the USDA, we would no longer purchase puppies from them,» Stottele wrote.
Such attacks can be traced to the attitudes of dog registries and
professional breeder organizations, including the American Kennel Club, that lobby intensively against even modest improvements to the welfare of puppy mill dogs.
The Canine Care
Certified professional breeder program will have a corresponding consumer - facing campaign, to reinforce the need for breeder certification.
Though many amateur horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most
professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed.
Generally, Huskies that come
from professional breeders are tested for PRA, and dogs that show positive for the disorder aren't used for breeding — to help avoid passing the disease down the genetic line.
While the mongrels come about by accident as a result of promiscuity on the part of your pet, the Hybrids, or Designer Dogs as they are called, are carefully cross-bred by
professional breeders in the effort to create a better, more evolved dog.
Even at this price, the company reports it has a waiting list - and no,
not professional breeders (the American Kennel Club will not register cloned dogs).
DNA from fresh band - tailed pigeon tissue was obtained from a blood sample from «Sally», a female band - tailed pigeon raised by
professional breeder Sal Alvarez.
Professional breeders know by heart which health screenings all dogs have to undergo, and which qualities and flaws each popular bloodline is associated with.
While many people think that the only way to get a beautiful, sociable, intelligent cat is
through professional breeders, this couldn't be further from the truth.