Do Purebred Animals Get Fixed Before Adopted

03/29/12 Purebred Dogs are Victims of Abandoning, as well

Creature Friends warns about the large problem of mass breeding of dogs

- Selective breeding of dogs causes suffering and results in excessive number of animals

In Croatia, besides as the world, there are many legal and illegal breeders of certain breeds of dogs, who profit from mass convenance of then-called purebred dogs. Dogs with overly emphasized physical characteristics are bred, to satisfy judges at shows. Veterinarians warn that those characteristics may crusade serious discomfort and stress.

Some veterinarians and experts on animals have compared the mass product of dogs with pedigree to the eugenic principles of Adolf Hitler, considering the common practice of inbreeding, as well as breeding to standards. The mutual do among breeders is to breed animals who are related, in social club to transfer award winning characteristics from generation to generation, so eastward.g. grandfather is bred with his granddaughter, and breeding of directly related dogs also occurrs. While on one hand dogs are mass bred, on the other at that place are many abandoned dogs in shelters and in the streets, amid them "purebred" dogs.

Mass breeding of dogs and abandoning of "purebred" dogs are the theme of the activeness "Adopting is cool," which is joined by Animal Friends, inviting citizens to adopt abandoned animals. The activeness is organized by Zagreb City Office for Agriculture and Forestry and Zagreb City Shelter for Abandoned Animals, and it volition be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.one thousand., at Trg bana Josipa Jelacica in Zagreb.

Citizens volition exist able to run into abandoned "purebred" dogs who are at the Shelter and looking for a home, because dogs who were bred are abandoned just like other unwanted dogs. At the info stalls useful data concerning the adoption of abandoned animals and the problem of breeding will exist available, and the message volition be sent to all citizens of Croatia that dogs should not exist "custom made" and sold, that they are living beings who demand our acceptance and responsibility.

Breeding closely related animals leads to health problems and genetically hereditary diseases. Because of barbarous and insane breeding standards, many breeds, such equally bulldogs, take excessive physical characteristics which make everyday functioning more difficult, they cannot breed on their ain, but they are artificially inseminated, and puppies are born by ceasarean section because their heads are too big.

A big for dogs with predigree are hereditary diseases. For example, purebred flat-coated retriever has a high rate of cancer. In convenance, puppies are taken away from their mother very early, and people who are interested in them often buy them for their characteristic appearance. When they become tired of the dogs afterward a while, they often abandon them.

Animal Friends invites citizens who bought "purebred" dogs to adopt the adjacent dog who will be a part of their family, independent of the brood, instead of buying.

A provocative short film "Animal Birth Control (Wrong Meeting?)," translated into Croatian for this occasion, can be seen at our YouTube channel.

The text of this entrada and posters with a pointed gun and a message "You bought an animal? You killed 1 creature'south chances," which invites to adopting instead of ownership animals can exist seen here, while the motion picture with the same championship tin be viewed on our YouTube aqueduct.

The reaction "Ownership animals supports killing abandoned dogs" tin can be read here.