:yikes: Forced sterilization is hardly a "little idea"!!
WAY too intrusive and as others have stated it would be the death of many legitimate non-registered breeds, including working lines of breeds that
are otherwise recognized but the working lines are not registered.
Ranches in the Western U.S. and elsewhere strongly depend upon their working line dogs! Even though they are from recognized breeds, these working dogs are not registered with kennel clubs. Most would NOT make good pets but they are tireless workers as ranch hands.
"Mandatory" sterilization would not stop breeding of these dogs because the economic consequences to ranches would be devastating. If allowed to affect these ranchers, the general public WOULD begin to feel those consequences as well. (You wanna pay $50 per lb. for meat because ranchers are forced to find other, more expensive means of herding and guarding their stock?)
I do not agree with forced sterilization under any circumstances.
What business does the government have telling me what I can and cannot do with my property?
What is next? Book burning? No red automobiles?
^^^ Agree ... oh what, about 150%
Maybe the government could offer some sort of incentive for dog altering?
City and municipal governments in many areas already do. Licensing laws in those areas offer reduced yearly fees for licensing of altered dogs as opposed to intact. Sometimes differences in amounts can be staggering, such as $25 yearly to license an altered dog as opposed to $250 yearly for intact dogs. Such laws may make sense in big cities with free-roaming dog problems, but
not in rural areas with many working dogs. Just another example of how the very same laws do NOT work everywhere.
Like what breeds? And what about the parent clubs?? (I don't know a whole lot about all that stuff...)
^^^^ ... and this is exactly the problem ... People screaming "there oughta be a law!" when they are woefully uninformed.
A good example would be that extremely short-sighted can't-see-beyond-my-own-little-corner-of-the-world person who suggested that "little idea" to you in the first place.
Please inform that person.