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National Dog Day: How to choose a dog breeder and what red flags to avoid
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22/08/2024
The Kennel Club has found three in ten spend less than a day researching breeders before deciding which they say can lead to complications later on.
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Well, we've been doing research for a number of years. Unfortunately, the situation seems
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to be getting worse. The mistake people make are they are buying things in too much of
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a hurry. They're buying a puppy in perhaps the same way they might choose a pair of shoes
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or a washing machine. They don't think enough about it. And of course, it's very, very different.
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When you're buying a puppy, you're buying something that's going to come into your home,
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be part of your family. And I often say that buying a puppy should be much more like adopting
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a child than buying a piece of hardware, for example.
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What are the most common mistakes people make when choosing a breeder? And how can
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those mistakes contribute to the current puppy welfare crisis?
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The first thing is that you really need to see the puppy, where it's born, where it's
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raised with its mother. And that's vitally important because you get much more idea of
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the background of the puppy. The last thing you should want to do is meet someone at third
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party location. More important than the breed itself is the breeder. And if you find the
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right breeder, they will actually interview you. They will ask you lots of questions because
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a good breeder really cares about where their puppy goes. They care about how it's going
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to, what sort of life it's going to lead. They want to make sure it fits into your lifestyle.
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So I think that people should be prepared when they find a good breeder to be prepared
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to answer lots of questions.
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What are the implications of purchasing a poorly vetted, from a poorly vetted breeder
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that can have on a puppy's health and behavior? And obviously then, of course, has an emotional
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and financial toll on the owner as well.
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In the worst case scenario, we do have a number of puppies that die in their first
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year. And these can often be from diseases that are actually picked up at the breeder.
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So there's a disease called parvovirus, which is very common. And it's often an indication
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of bad management. You can take the puppy, it looks perfectly okay. And in two or three
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days, suddenly it gets very sick. And there's a huge emotional toll on that. You invested
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in a new puppy and it gets very sick. There's also the financial implications of that. Vets
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fees can be very expensive. Again, it's being very sensible, being very picky where you
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actually buy your puppy from.
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