I have some backyard breeders for neighbors. One who breeds labs, another who breeds beagles, and another who breeds dachshunds. That poor lab was bred every year of her life except the last few...as she has cancer now. And I've seen the beagle male and female and they live outside and look like crap. I think the others do take pretty good care of the dashsunds. I know the beagle/dachshund ones don't breed them every year....I've just seen signs up for puppies a few times.

A friend I had didn't *intentionally* breed her german shepard, but it could have been prevented. She was not spayed and was always getting loose. The father was a german shorthair. The pups were adorable....they loooked like chocolate and black labs with white spots. They ended up keeping the biggest chocolate one because he had a deformed eye.

Another neighbor kept a smaller chocolate brown pup (she looked more shepard then the others) and she didn't live a good life, and ended up getting hit by a car. I've often wondered the fate of the other pups...as I think they just gave them away.

And actually the mother and the pup they kept also ended up being killed...they got loose and were pts at a shelter.