There are heritage and preservation breeders that do try to breed healthy, genetically diverse animals.
As society has found out time and time again, a prohibition does not solve the issue. Education, harm reduction, and sourcing from ethical sources will work best.
Certain breeds would die out without heritage and preservation breeders. These types of breeders basically live and breathe their animals.
I loosely know a few and they are always rescuing animals, doing breed education, etc.
Just saying “don’t buy from breeders” won’t ever fully work. We have to come up with a better solution.
Specifically for preservation breeding they’re an important part of human civilization’s history. The domestication of animals that play intimate roles in our lives and occupations is at least as worth preserving anthropologically as games/art, or artifacts
For breeds in general sometimes we forget that we domesticated dogs for specific roles in our lives, not just for friendly pets, and many of those roles are still deeply important. Having dogs that are well suited to various needs we have of them is kinda important. Dogs work as service animals, search and rescue dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, manage or protect livestock on smaller non-industrial farms, provide protection which is really helpful to people who may have suffered PTSD from past victimization, and as therapy animals. And we also selectively breed some breeds specifically for companionship, which is important because its a specific functional role that not all dogs are going to fit into in the same way.
Breeds exist because of the reason we domesticated dogs in the first place, which is to say a huge plethora of different reasons, for which we have all different kinds of dogs, that will fit different people and different needs. That system is still functionally useful, not every breed is equally well suited to every life, home/family, or job.
because they have uniqe traits. there are dogbreeds for specific type of work. Mixed-breed dogs can sometimes be less predictable and harder to train/work with, people look for specific breeds that fit their profession and lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, mixed-breed dogs are wonderful, but let’s not demonize breeding. There are good reasons why it was started in the first place.
There are heritage and preservation breeders that do try to breed healthy, genetically diverse animals.
As society has found out time and time again, a prohibition does not solve the issue. Education, harm reduction, and sourcing from ethical sources will work best.
Certain breeds would die out without heritage and preservation breeders. These types of breeders basically live and breathe their animals.
I loosely know a few and they are always rescuing animals, doing breed education, etc.
Just saying “don’t buy from breeders” won’t ever fully work. We have to come up with a better solution.
The hard question: Why do we need to preserve these breeds, other than “it would be a shame”?
Specifically for preservation breeding they’re an important part of human civilization’s history. The domestication of animals that play intimate roles in our lives and occupations is at least as worth preserving anthropologically as games/art, or artifacts
For breeds in general sometimes we forget that we domesticated dogs for specific roles in our lives, not just for friendly pets, and many of those roles are still deeply important. Having dogs that are well suited to various needs we have of them is kinda important. Dogs work as service animals, search and rescue dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, manage or protect livestock on smaller non-industrial farms, provide protection which is really helpful to people who may have suffered PTSD from past victimization, and as therapy animals. And we also selectively breed some breeds specifically for companionship, which is important because its a specific functional role that not all dogs are going to fit into in the same way.
Breeds exist because of the reason we domesticated dogs in the first place, which is to say a huge plethora of different reasons, for which we have all different kinds of dogs, that will fit different people and different needs. That system is still functionally useful, not every breed is equally well suited to every life, home/family, or job.
because they have uniqe traits. there are dogbreeds for specific type of work. Mixed-breed dogs can sometimes be less predictable and harder to train/work with, people look for specific breeds that fit their profession and lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, mixed-breed dogs are wonderful, but let’s not demonize breeding. There are good reasons why it was started in the first place.
And that would be great.