Ann said
People with pet dogs no matter what breed should be made to castrate or sterilize
And all this mixing dog breeds is wrong.
NO BACK YARD BREEDERS NO SALE OF PETS AT SOPS OR WHOLESALERS
people with working dogs that kept as pets should be educated that those dogs are working dogs and should be kept busy
Remember having a pet is a privalidge
Ann,
I agree that most dogs and cats should be spayed or neutered. I am a vet tech, no one believes more fervently than I do that these new designer breeds are a bad idea.
My concern with your ideas is...how and who gets to decide if I breed or YOU breed??? Just because you have finished champions? That doesn't cut it with MY breed, most folks with working border collies think that the conformance world is going to be the demise of the border collie as we know it. They would say that conformation breeding is what should be made to stop. I just don't believe that there is any chance of developing a mechanism that can limit intact breeding animals in any practical manner that could be legally maintained. (last time I checked, the US was still a free county)
Who gets to decide? I think working ability is more important. My nieghbor might think that fitting the breed standard is more important.
Our town, sadly, has breed restrictions on anything that remotely even LOOKS like a pit bull. This of course includes all crosses, Am Staffs, it is pitiful, and we fought it hard. It passed anyway, brought my bosses then 8 year old son to tears of frustration. He just couldn't understand how so many people could be so WRONG. Statute requires "pit bulls" to be muzzeled in town, no new pit bulls, all must be desexed, they have to be housed on concrete, heavy duty kennel with a top, registered with the city, and a $50,000 liability insurance policy.
We have seen a lot of very nice family pets lose their homes, even their lives to this ordinance. While people still paint them all with one brush we will continue to see unfair attitudes and legislation. Very sad, and in my opinion, very wrong.
and yet...I still think that someone who owns property should be able to decide if they don't wish to rent to people with pets at all, or to people with specific kinds of pets...once again, it comes down to personal rights. They have a right to decide what kind of risks they are willing to take with their own property.
jusiw