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What makes a person a backyard breeder2007-11-25 2:53:32

Anyone can breed their dog, but if you are not in the business and do large amounts of research and genetic testing on your dogs, you would be considered a backyard breeder.

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It can be a hobby, but it's ill-advised with the amount of them that end up abandoned and in the pound and destroyed at the SPCA. You find good homes then something goes wrong, and trust me the breeder WILL be the last to know.

Without sound experience in breeding and genetics, it's playing with fire, since you can NEVER tell exactly what you're getting.

Rather don't breed, it always has some kind of sad ending, and there's nobody else at fault if you're the one who bred them. If you relaised that say ten of the dogs you have bred over the last year alone are sitting waiting for destorying, how would you feel about it?

Here is what wiki says about it:

"Puppy mills (known as puppy farms in the UK and Australia) are dog breeding operations that are considered by some to be disreputable and sometimes hazardous to the health of the animals due to the conditions of the breeding kennel.[citation needed] The term originated among critics of such operations.[citation needed] Small-scale operations where dogs do not receive adequate health care or good sanitation are usually called backyard breeding;[citation needed] the terms are akin but not synonymous. The largest concentrations in the USA are allegedly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and rural Missouri.