Rottie breeder selling adults. HUH?

I think that is the one thing I can not wrap my head around. I don't get why/how any individual would go through so much work to title a dog and love that dog and who knows how many litters and then just place it in another home. It makes it feel like solely business purposes and it disturbs me. And the logic behind it... they place the retired bitch so they can breed more... well, why not wait? Didn't that dog serve them well enough to be a part of their family for the rest of her life?

or the puppy "ripped from it's momma's teat and littermates, and sent to someone it doesn't know"

Yep AR's are right...we shouldn't have pets...it's far too emotionally trying on them.

or the puppy "ripped from it's momma's teat and littermates, and sent to someone it doesn't know"

Yep AR's are right...we shouldn't have pets...it's far too emotionally trying on them.

Putting puppies in homes would be easy, its the rehoming of adult dogs that have been apart of your family that would be difficult and impossible for some

I understand why people do it, but I'll bet the champions who are rehomed feel exactly the same as ones who are dumped on a friend/brother/parent because their owner suddenly is moving/doesn't have time for them/is having a baby.

A puppy taken from its mother at 8 weeks is different than a full grown dog that has grown up and lived its life with ONE family for YEARS.

I kind of see it as comparing taking away an infant baby from its mother VS taking a 13 year old from its family and plopped into a new one. The baby would adjust way easier.

Just my opinion anyhow.

Not something you ever have to to...if you are finacially able, and legally permitted to house as many dogs as you need to house.

Heck you can even keep the puppies you breed pet or show if you want to. It's personal...and up to each individual how and what they are going to do when their numbers get to that line we all have.

I see a lot of emotional projecting, in this thread and for my part...I think it's typical of ANY argument that dogs get brought up in..training, feeding, medical treatments, showing, working ex,

A prong collar is cruel to some and surely MUST be causing the dog some sort of emotional trauma....to another? It's a useful tool they use to make their relationship with their dog BETTER.

Your dog must be suffering horribly if you feed it Ol Roy...and if you really loved it you'd feed it better.

Your dogs must feel so unloved if they don't win at shows...I mean they sit in a crate all day and are only objects in a beauty contest....

How can you let your dog suffer so awfully with that disease...you should put it down...

How can you crate your dog while you are at work?? that is cruel and depriving it of it's freedom! You should train it better so it can be loose in the house...

There are those that are always going to have a problem with what you do with your animals, not because of how your animals feel...because face it Reggin, BP et al...you actually have no idea how any animal belonging to another person feels,...but because of their own ideas on what they THINK...is going on.

I don't expect folks to agree all the time...and if they have this sort of emotional pictures in their minds..no amount of happy smiling rehomed faces or stories, are going to change that, because that ruins the impression they want to have. If I knew french I'd insert that such is life saying here...but since I don't I'll just say...I am glad my hounds here and abroad...are happy...and I am glad for the time they spend with me, and I always consider them and their new owners...part of my extended family.

A puppy in a new home...cries..shrieks...and howls for it's family, many times, for days...I typically get many calls those first few days from frazzled puppy owners worried they made a mistake and that their new puppy is lonely and hates them.

A 1 year old dog I rehomed...slept in her crate the first night, silent like always, found the door to go outside and was tearing around the yard with the kiddos earlier that same evening...and was out on the family boat the next day (yes I did get a pic).

Which one...do you think...exhibits more signs of trauma, and experiences more stress?

I get what you are saying.
But whats the difference between an ignorant owner rehoming their family dog because they dont want to take care of it anymore and a breeder who gets rid of their dog because their not satisfactory to their program anymore? The emotional damage is going to be the same for the dog in both cases. Put your feet in the dogs shoes.

btw an 8 week old puppy is not like a human infant. It is more like a human toddler...capable of moving, and feeding on it's own and understanding simple commands. So perhaps up the age on that infant to say 3year old....and I think you'd get a more accurate picture.

The 1-3 year old dog would be more like a teenager...say 14years old...and older dog just your average adult.

Most 14y/o's I know..to inject a little levity...actually would LOVE to live in any family but their own..LMAO.

One difference, that I imagine is very imortant to the mental state of the dog...is the type of home an ignorant person picks...and a breeder picks. Which is super important. IF people rehoming their dogs because of say...moving...did so using the same criterium us breeders are expected to use when we place dogs...well I think dogs would be a lot better off.

When I see a dog with emotional damage due to a properly done rehome...I can answer your question...up to now the only emotionally damaged dogs I know personally are that way due to being physically abused.

So to state plainly...the term emotionally damaged doesn't sound accurate to me...but then I have actually done a rehome...and if we get technical...received a rehome since I have purchased a Ch. bitch. Neither cases have yielded up any emotionally damaged animals.