In their December/January issue, someone wrote in to the editor and asked some of the following questions:
"In your experience, for a small kennel owner that is making a living being a dog breeder, how many dogs do they typically own? How many does the medium kennel owner have?? Where do they sell the majority of their puppies? Auctions, newspaper, internet, Hunte Corp, etc...????? I live in SW Oklahoma and I am a teacher who is wanting to get ideas of what it would take to become a breeder full time."
Now's here's the scary recommendations this inquirer was given... And people wonder why we PMP fighters do what we do so passionately???
First, you cannot make a living with a small kennel. I would recommend a medium sized kennel of 100 females plus 2 or more males for every breed you raise. You should have 10 breeds to always have at least 1 or 2 breeds bringing top dollar. Stay with at least 5 or 6 ‘bread & butter’ breeds like, doxies, poodle, shih tzu, yorkie, maltese, cocker, etc.
The Cocker has the highest number of genetic health issues followed by several of these 'bread and butter' breeds! A hundred females plus 2 or more males for each breed - he's recommending 10 breeds - minimum of 120 dogs for a 'medium sized' kennel... One breeding male & female, combined with their offspring, can produce over 20,000 puppies in a two year period for the millers breed the females on every heat... You do the math... Anyone else wonder why the PMP industry is so heinous?... Do I need to start listing the PMP busts that have occurred already this year?... Most were at least 200 dogs & puppies - some were at least 300 or more - but all severely taxed the humane organizations and shelters as they tried to salvage, treat and take care of these dogs and puppies that arrived in their hands - usually ill, matted and poorly undersocialized!
The best place to sell is anywhere you can find a buyer. Brokers are your most trouble free source. Those who try the internet should be prepared to handle unreasonable complaints and demands for refunds. You may also have trouble with airlines and ultimately you will earn the extra income you receive.
The best place to sell is anywhere you can find a buyer??? That's right, let's just churn out these puppies and cram them down the general public's throat through whatever means you can. Makes no difference that many of these will end up in this nation's shelter system and the majority will go the rendering plants as dead carcasses... HOW DOES A PUPPY MILLER SLEEP AT NIGHT, knowing this is what they are doing to these life forms??? (shaking my head here in disgust!)
I would recommend that you get a federal and state license, even if you do not need one because I feel the time is coming when you will not have a choice. You will need to join OKPP and NAPO for help in your business.
About the only part in this answer that gives me hope... If we continue to fight this industry - even if in some small way in whatever manner you can - maybe one day this industry will be licensed and regulated...
Furthermore, every REPUTABLE dog breeder knows that you CANNOT 'make a living' breeding dogs... If you are 'making a living' (and a profit), you're doing something wrong and cutting corners that is causing this massive amount of unwanted dogs in an already overpopulated shelter & rescue system across this nation... Reputable breeders participate in this passion because they care about the breed they are breeding, not just 'churning out puppies' to make a living!
"Those who try the internet should be prepared to handle unreasonable complaints and demands for refunds."... Hmmmm... I wonder why?... Could it be that news good and bad travels faster on the Internet because politics and those in power do not control the Internet?... We can report on and comment about this industry because no one's hand is in our pocket?...
Now if we could only wake up the legislators in this country and expose this mindset to them, show them the bottom line of what it does to their budgets as they have to dispose of this industry's castoffs... This is one of the few industries in this country that is virtually unregulated and the majority of the industry is underground, doesn't pay its fair share of taxes, but every citizen who does pay their taxes subsidizes the industry, whether or not they ever owned a dog or ever plan on having one! You drive a car, you pay fuel taxes... You have phone service, you pay taxes on that... Think about it... If you do, you'll soon get angry over the amounts of taxpayer dollars that are spent to run and maintain shelters as they euthanize the 6,000,000 unwanted companion animals each year!
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