The people who feel responsible breeders need to stop breeding at all to clean up the messes of the irresponsible, puppymills, and so on are promoting the opposite of what they seem to want. That would only SUPPORT puppymills and BYB and the like, I don't understand how people can't see that? It's not realistic to think that if all reputable breeders were stopped, suddenly it'd solve the homeless/shelter dog problem. That's just not how it would be. In effect it would be like pit bull banning which punishes the responsible people and forces the bad owners/fighters to go to the next breed or go underground. You're wanting to punish and penalize the few people who are doing things the RIGHT way. Sure someone MAY go to a shelter instead of to a breeder, but they just as likely may go to their neighbor who is now breeding puppies because demand is higher for that certain type since it's hit and miss at the shelter.

Reputable breeders' dogs rarely end up in shelters because any true responsible breeder will always take their dog back if things don't work out. Outlaw all breeding, and quicker than you realize dogs will be phased out (and of course you know there'd be an underground trade for it then as well.) If all reputable breeders stopped the way you say they should, pet stores, puppymills, and BYB would become much more profitable and I'm willing to bet you there'd be no decrease in numbers at the shelters.

People who go to a reputable breeder are not bad people and there is nothing wrong if they want to go that route. People who ARE reputable breeders, truly responsble, are NOT to blame for dogs dying in shelters. I say efforts should be aimed at stopping puppymills, backyard breeding, designer mutt breeding and irresponsible breeding. Not focused on stopping the one group who are doing things correctly and responsibly.