Cost of pups

The trouble is Keith, someone forgot to put legs on them, no chance at running a red down but if a deer is down you have a hard time trying to get them off the little devils, I know I once tried to get a fallow off a Teckel to dispatch it the thing wanted to chew my arm off:rofl:

Aye, they can have their faults Wayne ;) Show me an breed that doesn't. I bet a Teckel would stand the same chance running down a red as a Bavarian would holding a badger at bay in a tight earth :norty: Horses for courses and we each love our breeds (though sometimes they drive us mad - a bit like our wives)
 
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Please consider rescue/rehomed dogs. I have had four rescue/rehomed GSP's and one spaniel, all great dogs. The prices for pups is just getting stupid.
Bargains to be headed definitely.

Is a spaniel feasible as a deer dog? The two I have had just had too much energy for me to imagine them being chilled enough on a stalk. Finding them once they are down, is a different issue, but I am not walking back to the car for the dog ! Both labs have worked fine albeit the last one obviously thought it was boring as hell compared to the pheasants. Current lab is the total opposite.
 
From the animals perspective, maybe a complete ban on importing dogs, and a total and enforced ban on breeding dogs for profit.
We have far to many unwanted and stray dogs, cats in this country now, without so called caring pet owners making it worse.

Neil.
 
From the animals perspective, maybe a complete ban on importing dogs, and a total and enforced ban on breeding dogs for profit.
We have far to many unwanted and stray dogs, cats in this country now, without so called caring pet owners making it worse.

Neil.

A ban on importing dogs hey?? Cannot see one jot how that helps the situation with unwanted/stray dogs?
 
A ban would stop these rescues bringing in stray dogs from other countries, and then having them sit in kennels for years in some cases, as they're completely unsuitable for rehoming!
 
A ban would stop legitimate quality dogs from coming in leaving the detritus to be bred and creating more health issues and then watching the price go through the roof for animals not fit for purpose, rehoming is not the answer with many issues coming with them, the issue is stop the puppy peddling with disreputable breeders.
I can like everyone in UKSHA trace back the lines generations from performance breeding and testing, we know exactly what we are getting, regards wayne
 
From the animals perspective, maybe a complete ban on importing dogs, and a total and enforced ban on breeding dogs for profit.
We have far to many unwanted and stray dogs, cats in this country now, without so called caring pet owners making it worse.

Neil.

I’m afraid a ban on breeding dogs for profit is unlikely to work. How would you possibly police it. They can’t police the pistol ban. Which is a far smaller number of people involved. Than the potential numbers of people who breed dogs.
How do you define breeding for profit? Are we talking about puppy farms where that’s all that matters. Or the John Halstead’s (just happens to be local to me) of this world. Who breed dogs to train for work and competition. That make a living from doing so. You can’t tar the latter with the same brush as the former.

A ban on importing rescue dogs is probably an easier thing to police and enforce. I cannot see the point of importing a dog, when there’s so many dogs here already that need re-homing.
 
Because there would be fewer dogs in the country, simple isn't it.

Stopping responsible owners from sourcing the globe to find the best stock they can to then improve the UK gene pool of their chosen breed has nothing to do with unwanted/stray dogs that need re-homing.
 
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