Backyard Breeding
Typically they breed dogs without taking the time to make good genetic matches or to have dogs registered with the appropriate kennel club or breed club.
Backyard breeding. Backyard breeders are often considered unethical dog breeders with profit obsessed motivations. What is a backyard breeder. Ads from these unscrupulous breeders fill the classifieds. Fun good for kids to make money doesn t screen buyers and seldom refuses to sell even if buyer is unsuitable.
Backyard breeders may appear to be the nice neighbor next door in fact even seemingly good intentioned breeders may treat their breeding pairs as family pets. Backyard breeding is the practice of mating dogs with very little planning preparation and care for the future progenies. Backyard breeding doesn t just happen with cats. She doesn t do any health screening and she isn t active in any sort of competition or serious activity with her dogs nor is she affiliated with breed clubs or other.
If it is a designer breed 100 of the time it is a backyard breeder regardless if he meets one or two of the requirements of a responsible breeder. Will sell pups only to. Backyard breeder known in the dog fancy as a byb is a term that means different things to different people sometimes it refers to someone who breeds several dogs maybe several breeds to make some money. The term backyard breeder is sometimes used to describe dog breeders with little experience or knowledge.
Good article but it did not go far enough in defining responsible breeding or give resources such as canine health information center. Has so much invested in dogs that struggles to break even not make profit. A backyard breeder is an amateur animal breeder whose breeding is considered substandard with little or misguided effort towards ethical selective breeding unlike puppy mills and other animal mill operations backyard breeders breed on a small scale usually at home with their own pets hence the backyard description and may be motivated by things such as monetary profit curiosity to. The practice is very common with dogs too said mr derrick tan president of voices for animals an animal welfare group which rescues and.
His death left his dogs to fend for themselves and rescuers to pick up the pieces. They get in over their head with breeding facilities and unfortunately they have no. Dedication to quality dogs is serious avocation. Backyard breeders are also motivated by profit.
Often this is due to ignorance or neglect where a pet dog or cat accidentally becomes pregnant because the owner has failed to have them desexed.