Cats or dogs?

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Unless you're specifically breeding for agression, docility, herding, or any other mentality, which are defining traits of many breeds. Not kidding, fighting dog owners will strangle, drown or even use dogs that aren't "tough" or mean enough as fighting "bait". They die horribly. And then when they DO occasionally get busted, the dogs deemed capable of being rehabilitated, often go to animal shelters for adoption- even though they've been specifically bred and raised to fight. There's a dark side that most people never see or hear about, unless you've been involved with organizations that deal with animal abuse. I've seen the worst of what goes on, and I'm sorry, but no amount of blame on owners alone can account for that.

There's a really ugly side to the greyhound-racing industry as well.

Honestly, at this stage I'm opposed to breeding in general. It's insane to me that people will plop down exorbitant amounts of money for a kitten or a puppy just because it's purebred when thousands upon thousands of animals are homeless and are put down. I think it's immoral to buy rather than adopt when there are so many homeless animals out there, and so many unwanted litters coming into the world every year due to idiots being too cheap or stupid to spay and neuter their pets.

I mean we all have breeds that we think are particularly cute but at the end of the day, a shelter cat or shelter dog isn't going to love you any less than a cat or dog with pedigree papers.