What is YOUR definition of a BYB?

[Lori Jordan]

I agree with what critter crazy has said,Also a byb is someone who also owns 10 different breeds of small dogs,There is a lady out about 20 minutes away from me.

Also here in Canada there is a classified site called Kijiji,Most people on there are either"designer Breeds" or the Yorkie poo's my blood boils when i see names like that.

People get this idea that there going to be making so much money breeding,In reality you dont!

I also find it rediculous that people slap two different breeds together and try to sell them for 1500,00????It makes me sick to my stomach!

All they are doing is putting 2 dogs together and with all the testing that needs to be done on different breeds how long is the dog going to live?

[Flatcoatluver]

I agree with what critter crazy has said,Also a byb is someone who also owns 10 different breeds of small dogs,There is a lady out about 20 minutes away frrom me.

Funny, I would classify that as a puppy mill.

To me a byb is a breeder who doesn't health test there dogs (example. Hips, eyes, thyroid, elbows, and etc) also someone who doesn't show there dogs, so they don't know if there standard, or if someone doesn't field test the sporting breeds, herding with the herding breeds.

Someone who does it for the money, there dog's could be parents, because there dog's make great pets, there dogs are cute, or they want double of there dogs.

Someone in the chi thread said they don't care about there dogs, they are only in it for the money and that's what makes a BYB. I disagree with that completely. I know many byb's who do it for the experience of there children, but also care about there dogs deeply, they are just ignorant about the right way to breed.

I work at a dog kennel and train dogs, I hear all the "excuses" in the book of why they should breed.