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Casual versus Formal Breeding, and Animal Overpopulation

What about breeding and overpopulation?

Yes. There is a screaming need to do two things: 1. stop all casual breeding and 2. only breed if you are rigorously selecting for traits that maintain lines that will fit in with people, be healthy, won't be aggressive, won't bark all day, etc, and won't wind up in shelters...multiple times.

If all breeding stops, domestic breeds go extinct.

But because LGDs are born on farms where people reproduce animals, we are particularly bad at no fixing dogs, and pumping out dogs that don't fit in homes and don't work on small farms, and therefore fill shelters.

Pet mills are inexcusable in every form. In fact they are genetic oxymorons because you cannot do rigorous genetic selection with animals that you don't personally live with. Backyard breeding is defined by the lack of a genetic program...this is small scale putting two dogs together and selling pups, relying totally on somebody else's genetic work.

A good breeder will take a long time before they make any money. They won't have as many litters because they will be waiting and waiting for the next generation to grow out. They will continually advance their genetics, have passionate fun seeing what they can do with genetics over the long haul, and slowly their own lines will emerge within a breed and become known.