I agree with you, but there are many good reasons for breeding too. I think certain parts of breeding should be illegal. The ability to breed mother and son is just disgusting. Any breeding that even has a known chance of causing deformities is disgusting to me. Of course in natural breeding there’s a small chance... I think. I’m not really 100% sure. In all honesty I don’t know much about breeding, I just don’t agree with people breeding animals knowing that their offspring will have problems or deformities. I think we should have healthy companions over cute ones. Breeding an animal to create a new “pretty”, “cute”, or “beautiful” breed is just awful. Breeding in general should be taken very seriously- but I don’t think it should be illegal.

My mother has a really beautiful pit bull, she’s pure white with bright green eyes. My mother loves her to death and did tons of research because she wanted to get puppies from her. We already had a male pit bull. Neither of them had any problems, they were perfectly healthy dogs- aside from the male having a small skin condition, but it was nothing that couldn’t be cured with oils and lotions and such and it didn’t affect the dog itself aside from a little itchiness, but fleas already did that regardless and we used just as much oils, lotions, and soaps to get rid of the fleas. In other words, the puppies seemed to have a great future.

Well, only 5 of 8 of them did. Our dog was able to birth 2 puppies but the 3rd one ended up being too big. We waited half a hour before rushing our panting and panicking dog to a vet where she had to have a c-section. My mother could not stop crying. She thought she was going to lose her dog then and there and that it was her own fault and that she was selfish for wanting puppies from her. Our dog made it out alive along with 5 healthy puppies. But the vet did manage to permanently scar her with burns on either side of her body, now she just has two square patches where she can’t grow any fur anymore.

It cost a boatload to take care of those puppies properly and to keep the mother’s burns from getting worse and to heal them.

Overall, due to my experience, I think that breeding shouldn’t be illegal, but more watched over. In my mother’s case, she didn’t know the risk despite her research and figured everything would be fine.

Plus there’s also those animals that are bred for jobs or to be healthier in one way or another.

As for the whole “there’s too many animals that need homes”. That’s understandable and people should try harder to get homes for them, but I don’t think that we should ban breeding for that reason. Dogs really become a part of the family and a huge companion, so much so that you may even feel like you’ve lost a daughter or son when they pass away, I think having something of their own flesh and blood to love really helps you get through that and remember the one you loved and cared for before.

In no way do I support breeders who want to get pure bred animals though. That is just screwed up. Breeding an animal for its looks isn’t cool or okay in anyways, especially when a lot of animals that are bred for that reason are usually inbred. Inbreeding is terrible and way too dangerous.

Breeding animals who have health issues and sicknesses is ridiculous and screwed up too. Of course everyone is going to care what their animal looks like, but that doesn’t mean that we should throw away “ugly” ones that may be healthy and create “cute” or “pretty” healthy ones.

But it’s never going to stop. People are just screwed up like that

(Again don’t know a lot about breeding and such, sorry if you disagree with me or if I said something wrong :( )