Ok, this topic has made me slightly nervous, because I haven't liked to mention it before but I will now.
When Lucy turns two years old she will be bred. My neighbours (her owners) aren't doing it themselves, because they don't have any experience with dogs - she'll go back to her original breeders and have puppies from a Golden Retriever stud. This has all been arranged since before Lucy was born, apparently, and my neighbours took Lucy as a pet with all those conditions.
I don't know if this is different to what this topic is about - 'irresponsible' breeding if you will. But Lucy has a pedigree and everything, and is part of a breeding program that screens against hip displaysia and eye defects. I don't know if that makes it better.
I volunteer at a shelter and see the dogs everyday so when they told me that Lucy was having puppies it was very confusing as to know whether to laugh or cry. Because all the good owners buying Lucy's puppies could be taking home dogs from the shelter.
I guess all this is another side of the coin too.
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