Making them comfortable?

It is amazing how we can think that we have learned so much when we are 16, and then after many many years more, realize that we still only know bits and pieces of anything.

Before I the time that I raised dogs (I don't anymore), I worked with a woman who raised little dogs. She claimed to be very much into animal welfare, and said that her extensive contract was to make sure that the people who bought her puppies spoiled them with lavish care.

She 'reclaimed' dogs who were not being cared for up to the standards she had laid out in her very strict contract and then re-sold them.

But what type of dog did she breed and sell? A flat-faced dog. A dwarf dog bred to have extra short legs. A dog not bred to be free of discomfort.

Yet, if someone else, had made those puppies suffer, she would have been angry.

Who tells you that?

The one thing I can say about this is that I wouldn't want somebody who has bred Dalmatians for 30 year sto tell me what to do about do breeding (unless, maybe, it was LUA dals).

You can read about one of the problems in dalmatian breeding over on:
http://darlingyouaredoingitwrong.blogspot.com/
(click on Quiz in the left hand column, it is also over on one of the yahoogroups, either Political Dog Law, or Pet-treaty, I forget which.

How hard would it be to add LUA (healthy) Dalmatians into a breeding program?

Fairness

I agree, that the fairest way to reduce the number of dog and cats is to limit the number of unfixed (fertile) dogs or cats to one or two per residence.

It is ridiculously unfair to tell pet owners that they must have their puppy operated on, while the dog breeder who sold them the puppy still mass produces more puppies.