''Two beautiful Basset Hound girls - my girlies need homes! I am a student vet who has returned for my second year of education & have 2 girls left from my litter who need genuine loving homes. I have 6 Bassets in total (some are rescues) & breed once a year during my summer hols from uni. Dam is KC Reg, sire is DL Reg, puppies are DL Reg with 3 generation pedigree certificate. Sire is show winner including Best condition & Best in Show. Puppies are fully inoculated & now running with ''the pack'', full worming programme complete, 1 month free Pet Plan ins & puppy pack included. I would accept £800 for both girls to a genuine loving home as they are now 16wks of age & are the best of friends who need to be together. Please telephone as internet connection not always available - thank you.''

saw the above add on a free site and just had to vent.  how could she
a) breed dogs that arent kc reg-only DL reg (worthless)
b) breed dogs at all when she has rescue dogs too of same breed
c) be a student vet and not care that she is adding to all the homeless dogs in uk

im outraged

That's disgusting. :(

This is almost unbelievable, suppose in another 4 years she will become a self opinionated "professional" person telling those of us who love and respect our pure breeds that they are unhealthy mutants. A good vet, I doubt it she is far too selfish.

What hope have we got when a trainee vet doesn't seem to care?  Just shows that many vets don't get how much work is involved in having, caring and breeding dogs and ensuring that homes are found before even breeding from them.

whilst i find the ad distasteful and certainly agains t all my own principles of breeding, Im not sure why the OP finds it so odd that someone with rescues would breed? I have had rescues over the years but fail to see why I shouldnt be breeding from my own hounds because they share the house with a rescue of the same breed!?

Is this a new way for a student to make money during the holidays ? I suppose it is different to working in a bar (sarcasm)

to sam
i was just finding it hard that someone who rescues bassets and obv knows there are many that need rehoming would breed from them to make more, especially non kc reg which are more likely i think to end up in rescue.
i have nothing against rescues at all
it made me think of the staffie crisis too when there were so many in rescue the kc appealed for people to stop breeding them

Call me snobish but she thinks that show winner including Best Condition means show dog...well I dont...it means they have been to a companion show!! My view of show winner is at least an open show or breed club limit show. Sorry there is a more important issue but just something I have picked out.

i hadnt noticed before that she said they must be homed together and they are  only 16 weeks old! imagine taking on two siblings! i think she just wants to get rid

> im outraged

I agree with you, a great shame. I just don't understand just having a litter and then having to find homes. Look cute but they are a breed that you realy have to love, to concider sharing a home with. Every vet I've seen, has given me numerous lectures about owing them .

Bit of a shock this one to think in a couple of years this person will be handing out advice - very scarey.

Now what strikes me is im about to go into my 3rd year at Uni and lets be honest im as broke as they come, this would make her between 20 and 21 so where has she got the money to feed them and look after them?

Id love to have a dog but I cant afford to look after a dog at the moment so I make regular trips home to see the 'pack' at home to get my fix.... and where on earth does she have the time to look after the litter/ dogs when she would have classes? I whish she could share with me where to find the time because Id love to know as me and most of my class usually stay until we get kicked out at 9pm most days just to get the work done.

A lot of that ad just doesn't ring true to me. GOnna make an awful vet if it is!

Tina you beg to wonder eh?
Had a discussion with someone at work today and they Know someone who breeds a litter when they want money to go on a family holiday. Disgusted and told her so, she thought it was fine as the kids would benfit :-(
She has a cross breed a sought one out, she thinks they are healthier.. I gave up as we were never going to agree on purposefully cross breeding

I keep also seeing ads for a vet nurse who is selling lab x poodles stating they are shed free and all the other promises these people try to promote

Is this really the truth though, some people will say anything to get a sale.

I really don't believe a word of it. Could be a puppy farm scam.

Now what strikes me is im about to go into my 3rd year at Uni and lets be honest im as broke as they come, this would make her between 20 and 21 so where has she got the money to feed them and look after them?

She could be a mature student - my son starts uni tomorrow having decided on a major change of career and he will be 30 on his next birthday.

> I really don't believe a word of it

Lol, anything to do with words of Poodle x Lab and shed free coat is enough to send me running into the hills..

No I agree it could be another scan these puppy farmers are using, but if not then I were a vet i'd be worried about my staff doing this.

I saw an ad on Saturday for a chi needing rehoming, first ad read home needed due to daughter moving out and dog needs new home (it was the daughters dog), second ad said owner moving home.  And of course states no papers.

Are they that thick that they don't realise people can work out the two ads are the same.

Designer Dog for sale, we are selling our Shih-poo as she needs to go to a new family, We have just had our 5th baby and can no longer give her the time she deserves. She is 5 years old and in good health, happy friendly little girl. non moulting breed

the above add broke my heart. how can people be so heartless?

May be the dog will be better off somewhere else, if the family is struggling to cope, who wouldn't with all those nippers. Possibly labeling it a designer dog they think it will help sell her quicker, and it just might at the right price.

There is one in my local paper that has been in a few times over the last few weeks.

'7 month old american bulldog.  Good with children, needs a lot of attention and experienced owner'

I read that as untrained, hormonal teenage dog who has been trashing the house due to not having appropriate boundaries or training.  He hasn't bitten the children (yet) but is a total nightmare and none of us can walk him or cope with him in the house.

Any other interpretations on that ad?

I always laugh hollowly when i read"genuine reason for sale"Yes,hes just ripped my leg off!well,thatd be a genuine reason!means nothing,really!

Its not the fact that people breed that annoys me I mean if an owner puts time love money and attention into a dog and they breed and the dogs are healthy  and long life homes are found where the dogs are treated well then there should be no problem.

Its when people dont care or in the case of the ad about the student vet especailly, she should care more about her dogs than anything not treat them as a quick way to clear student debt! IM sorry but thats wat I saw1

I read through the other comments on here and it seams that everyone gets rid of their dogs for convinence reasons! Not because they are homeless and cant bare o drag their dog onto a cold street, or because they hve lost their job and cant feed their dogs or vet fees! I couldnt dream of rehoming any of my dogs just because they stressed me out sometimes! I mean ther dogs there supposed to cause mayhem (I dont mean attack but simply be dogs! )

Stunning litter of labradoodles mum is a gold k.c lab dad is a k.c chocolate toy poodle so these will be small , both can be seen and have fantastic temperament , pups will be wormed and frontlined and raised with children deposit taken now

couldnt resist posting this one too. for one thing how do they know they will be 'small'? they might grow as big as mum? and i was wondering how a toy poodle managed to mate a lab? did he stand on a chair?

like the dally crossed with a llasa  resulting in a  lhamatian.............. they used the stairs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know about you people but some of the mating techniques I'm reading about seem very degrading to the dogs. How many are actually just ever left to get on with it? or is that a thing of the past? Do they always have to be interfered/intervened with by humans.

Or am I wrong and the dogs enjoy themselves.

>How many are actually just ever left to get on with it?

The ones whose owners don't care if dog or bitch injure themselves. Mother Nature isn't a kindly old soul!

I just remember when I was a kid and dogs roamed freely, that mating must of been more natural, where ever the dogs would meet up like, it just happened. I suppose this still happens, only a lot less common these days, with dog wardens around.

Thank you, I think I see, the breeders are there to protect the dogs, because accidents/danger can arise.

Never thought of that. Cheers.

and i was wondering how a toy poodle managed to mate a lab? did he stand on a chair?

I've got a large breed and a toybreed and I've witnessed many a time a large bitch in season flirting with a small (neutered!) dog -they will shove their bums up against a couch that the little dog is on, a chair, or lay down on the floor -where there is a will, there is a way for sure.

Thank you, I think I see, the breeders are there to protect the dogs, because accidents/danger can arise.

Even a bitch very ready to be mated and happy to be mounted may freak out when tied and try to get away. I have one who it always took 3 people to hold still once she had tied. I had an accidental mating once, bitch tried to get away once tied and I didn't get to her in time to stop her, both dog and bitch were injured and had to be rushed to the vets in the evening of a Sunday, it took 3 days before the poor dog stopped bleeding from his penis.

See I'm learning all the time, I didn't know these sort of things happen.

> '7 month old american bulldog.  Good with children, needs a lot of attention and experienced owner'
>
> I read that as untrained, hormonal teenage dog who has been trashing the house due to not having appropriate boundaries or training.  He hasn't bitten the children (yet) but is a total nightmare and none of us can walk him or cope with him in the house.
>
> Any other interpretations on that ad?

The dog was no good for fighting.