Sentences with phrase «rather than a purebred dog»

Not exact matches

There have been instances that certain breeders especially those dealing with purebreds do not practise the strict guidelines of proper breeding which produces inferior dogs and do this because these people are more concerned about financial gain rather than the welfare of the animal.

25 % of dogs in shelters are purebred, so please consider ADOPTING your «dream dog» or «dream cat» and saving a life, rather than promoting businesses that sell animals to make money.

If your dog is purebred, someone might try to turn him in to the breed rescue group rather than dropping him off at a shelter.

All this hopefully helps give an answer to the emotional question about why we train purebred dogs almost exclusively, rather than shelter dogs — in short, because it is often impossible to know the trauma histories of shelter dogs, or which breeding characteristic of the «mixed breed» might prevail when the dog is faced with an unfamiliar situation.

Since your puppy was given to you rather than purchased directly from a breeder, is it possible that it is not a purebred dog?

One of the biggest reasons people give when asked why they purchased a dog from a breeder rather than adopting a dog from a shelter is that they wanted a purebred.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.