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7 26 ISSUE; EAST AFRICA KENNEL CLUB NEWSLETTER, APRIL 2018
How to Choose a Reputable Breeder

By Scotty Valadao – Accredited Animal Behaviourist (Canine) (ABC of SA™)

(If you are not going to give a shelter dog a home - then please read this before finding a breeder)

Congratulations! You have now done the Organizations and they will give you the facts.
homework required to see if you really do want Many of these pups are born into inhumane
another dog as well as chosen the breed, now comes conditions that no animal lover would tolerate.
the most exciting time – buying your puppy! This Just think that perhaps when you buy a pup
pup may be with you and your family for well over from anybody other than a reputable breeder,
a decade, so you owe it to yourself and your family you are putting money into the packets of these
to do the research on where to purchase your pup irresponsible people and are a factor in this practice
from. Here are some ideas and tips for you to think continuing. Although you may think that you are
about before you make the purchase giving this pup a good home, which you probably
are, all you are achieving is reinforcing the reason
One thing you don’t want to do is to make an why pups are being sold in these places – profit.
emotional purchase such as the song ‘how much is Are you aware that when the pups mentioned
that puppy in the window, the one with the wiggly above have passed their ‘sell by date’ they will
tail’? What you do need to do instead, is find a probably end up in Rescue Centres (or even
reputable breeder. worse)? Now you may well be thinking that ‘at least
If you saw the show on Carte Blanche some time if I give them a home they won’t be euthanized’.
ago on puppy farms, you will know exactly what Yes, you are correct, but where do we draw the line?
I mean. If you have any doubt that these sort of Unfortunately, I am afraid it is a case of a few must
places exist, then just contact any of the Rescue be sacrificed in order to stop this practice, and I
HOW TO CHOOSE A REPUTABLE BREEDER