Feedback on Canine Cash Crop
(Page 6 of 6)
September/October 1972
By the Mother Earth News editors
4. Be willing to discard those puppies which have serious flaws. Every breed has inherited sometimes very serious or nearly lethal flaws. Don't saddle an unsuspecting family with one of these pups. If the flaw is less serious, see that the pup goes to someone who will not breed it.
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5. Learn the great advances made in our knowledge of canine behavior, and understand that by disposing of a puppy at six weeks of age you are seriously interfering with its chances of future good health and personality development.
6. Be concerned about the puppy's health. If you sell at six weeks you have no way of making sure the pup will receive the correct immunization from the common puppy killers. The new owner may promise, but he often does not follow through. Have you ever watched a dog die of distemper or leptospirosis? Have you ever watched a child watch his puppy die of those diseases? Do you want to be a party to this kind of suffering?
7. Screen your buyers, and if you suspect they are not at home enough to train a puppy, will not care for its health and comfort, see that it is kept clean and reasonably well groomed, are buying on impulse and assuming a responsibility they will later regret, or are simply in the market for a status symbol or a commercial enterprise, refuse to sell. Serious breeders always turn down more customers than they accept.
Above all remember you are dealing in live, sentient flesh. You have caused these animals to be brought into the world, and you are responsible for seeing them get a fair shake in it.
If you follow this advice, I can promise you no profits, but much enjoyment and a clean conscience.
There's a lot of misery out there. Do nothing that would increase it.
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