Types of Dog Breeders
There has been a lot of discussion as to how are breeders classified and what makes them what they
Hobby Breeder : A breed fancier who usually has only one breed but may have two follows a breeding plan in efforts to preserve and protect the breed they are raising produces from none to five litters per year breeds only when a litter will enhance the breed and breeding program raises the puppies with plenty of environmental and human contact has a contract that protects the breeder, dog, and buyer runs a small clean kennel screens breeding stock to eliminate heredity defects from the breed works with a breed club or kennel club to promote and protect the breed and cares that each and every puppy is placed in the best home possible
Back Yard Breeder (BYB) : Dog owner whose pet either gets bred by accident or who breeds on purpose for a variety of reasons usually ignorant of the breed standard, genetics, behavior, and good health practices BYB's can easily become a commercial breeder or a puppy mill
Commercial Breeder : Usually has several breeds of dogs with profit as a primary motive dogs may be healthy or not and kennel may be clean or not dogs probably not selected for resemblance to the breed standard or for good temperament most sell to pet shops or brokers who sell to pet stores
Broker : Buys puppies from a commercial kennel and sells to retail outlets ship pups by the crate load on airlines or by truckload throughout the country must be licensed by USDA and must abide by the shipping regulations in the animal welfare act even though they are required to be licensed some are not and that is against the law.
Bunchers : Collect dogs of unknown origin for sale to laboratories or other buncers considered much lower on the evolutionary scale because of much suspicion that they buy stolen pets, collect "free" pets, and adopt unwanted pets from animal shelters for research at veterinarian colleges and industrial research labs
Puppy mill (PM) : Breeder who produces pups hand over fist with no breeding program little attention to puppy placement and poor health and socialization practices may or may not be dirty but is usually overcrowded and dogs may be neglected or abused because the breeder can't properly handle the amount of dogs they have often put down hobby breeders to make a sale
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