Dog owners, your views please

[highlandsflyer]

I have to agree. I reckon we ought to ban casual dog sales via Gumtree and so on. There should be stricter rules on breeding, and massive changes in dog ownership regulations.

Until we get the numbers down to a position where no dog ends up surplus and unloved, and set out how to manage from there.

I was brought up with working dogs, bar the house pet Dachshund, and always find it disturbing when I encounter houses full of 'pedigree' dogs being used as an income source.

 

[531brazed]

Ive yet to make any money from my first litter.
If I take into account all the costs in owning mummy, I'd have been better off drinking and smoking.
Still, having puppies has been great, I love them, and Im casually advertising the last one right here. Full working pedigree Wirehaired Pointer, a very lively boy.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Will the enforced chipping of all dogs help improve things (from April)?
I know they all have to have tags and still will but will chipping alter anything? Does it really make it much harder for the people buying it because it looked cute/fashion/kids really really really want one but have no idea people?

 

[531brazed]

wont make a scrap of difference. Our travelling friends dont have an address to register it to (many of them do of course, but wont be letting on when it doesnt suit them)

 

[LikeClockwork]

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Will the enforced chipping of all dogs help improve things (from April)?
I know they all have to have tags and still will but will chipping alter anything? Does it really make it much harder for the people buying it because it looked cute/fashion/kids really really really want one but have no idea people?

Can't think it will make a jot of difference TBH. Idiots will still exist.

As HF says, we need to get the amount of dogs in re-homing centres right down and work from there, but how we even make a start on that I don't know. Much stricter regulation at point of purchase? How do you regulate that?

 

[Mike Muz]

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A friend of mine work in a rescue centre. Staffies are the most commonly abandoned/ brought in. Can't understand it, I mean who WOULDN'T want a fighting dog?!

:roll:

 

[highlandsflyer]

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Chipping will help in enforcement. Compulsory restrictions on breeding is surely the way forward. We won't get breeders to willingly reduce numbers, but outlawing unlicensed sales would tackle casual breeding. The sorts who sell pups via word of mouth and dodgy pub deals undermine good practise. Individuals who irresponsibly breed at home should be required to pay punitive registration costs in order to discourage this. Animals ought not to be seen as ours to exploit the way we do.

 

[kenaltobelli]

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A friend of mine work in a rescue centre. Staffies are the most commonly abandoned/ brought in. Can't understand it, I mean who WOULDN'T want a fighting dog?!

:roll:

i take it you have never had a staffy one of the best dogs going,and as the saying goes it's the idiots that own them :!:
Very miss understood breed,if trained and taken care of ,of course

 

[FluffyChicken]

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A gun will cut down the number of dogs in the rescue centres.

 

[RobMac]

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A friend of mine work in a rescue centre. Staffies are the most commonly abandoned/ brought in. Can't understand it, I mean who WOULDN'T want a fighting dog?!

:roll:

i take it you have never had a staffy one of the best dogs going,and as the saying goes it's the idiots that own them :!:
Very miss understood breed,if trained and taken care of ,of course

I'm not gonna troll through 6 pages in case its been said already but "there's no such thing as a bad dog its bad owners who are the problem".