Quote Originally Posted by Ginger's Mom
No I am not. You quoted the whole post but didn't read the whole post. As I said in the post they continue to support and work with the animal shelter. As I have said in earlier posts both of my girls are rescues, and my next dog will be also. But as I have also said repeatedly, until most people are sick of hearing me say it in this thread, is that if you are going to get a dog for a purpose, it is nice to have breeders that are actually doing their homework, spending their money and taking their time to make sure that the dog is fit to perform the work it will be doing. Yes, I know there are no guarantees in life, but it sure is nice that someone cares enough about dogs to make sure they are healthy and fit enough not to suffer due to insufficient skeletal structure, bad knees or hips, degenerative eye problems, or whatever, because of it. Rescue dogs make wonderful pets. Many have done very well in agility, flyball, obedience, etc. Many have suffered from knee problems, hip problems, heart problems, and cataracts. To tell people that there is never a good reason to contribute to and help perpetuate the breeding of healthy dogs by reputable breeders is not stance of someone who truly cares about dogs.
I did read your post and to say that most shelter dogs are too weak to run and play is crazy. The woman who I board my dogs with/trainer has all rescue shelter dogs and these dogs all do flyball, agility, and frisbee and many of them are still doing it in their teens. Shelter dogs if you actually look at them and meet them can make perfect pets for anyone whether you want a service dog or a working dog. This is just my opinion though and of course I do not care at all if people go to a breeder as long as it's a good breeder. My little dachshund that lives with my grandmother for now came from a show breeder and was given to her because he had a parrot mouth.

Any dog can have health problems. Bulldogs can't even reproduce or give birth without help for heavens sake. Dachshunds have back problems and most shar peis have to have eyelid surgery to correct their eyelids. People need to ease up on breeding working dogs. Honestly I think we need to start breeding more for companion dogs and less for working dogs. 99% want a companion dog but some mistakenly get a border collie or some other working breed and it ends up recking their house. Yes there are rare occasions where someone needs a herding dog because they have a flock of sheep. This isn't all directed at you ginger's mom this is mostly just contributing to the whole thread.

Back to the subject of puppy mills. They are horrible and need to be stopped. Kennel clubs need to stop providing papers for these puppies.