Has anyone ever been to a breeder who is a member of the CKC and witnessed "puppy mill" standards?

Question

As a professional dog trainer and a member of the Canadian Kennel Club, a member of CAPPDT and several other organizations I am always concerned about the welfare of dogs...period...whether they are purebred or not is not my concern. Although I do raise purebred dogs according to CKC standards and show my dogs, I have been to many CKC breeders and have witnessed ill kept dogs, dogs in poor health, dogs that were drowned at birth because the owners did not have buyers, I have witnessed 8 year old female German Shepherds being shot at Appleridge Kennels in Ingersoll Ontario because they were too old to breed.In the show rings I have seen dogs being choked by the nylon slip choke colllars they wear and vomit when they leave the ring, so lets be clear about what we call a puppy mill. Do you know that the CKC allows its members to produce up to 600 puppies per year? The NCAC describes a puppy mill as any breeder of purebred or mixed dogs that does not care about the health of the dogs

Answer 1

katslooku
The Continental Kennel Club and the Canadian Kennel Club are two different things. CKC in Canada is the same as AKC in the US.

There are bad people or bad practices in every segment of society. Dog people certainly do not have a corner on that market. Dog people can only police ourselves, expecting a kennel club or the government to do it for us is foolhardy and will eventually be to our and our dogs disadvantage.

Answer 2

Many people here in YA refer the Continental Kennel Club as CKC, not the Canadian Kennel Club.

The Continental Kennel Club has very, very low standards for accepting dogs and registering them. Actually, all you need to register your dog with them is 3 pictures and 2 letters from people attesting to the fact your dog is a pure bred, whatever.

In each kennel club, there are those members who should never own dogs, much less breed them!

**** I know that the Canadian Kennel Club and the Continental Kennel Club are different. If you have been in YA often, you will see a lot of references to CKC. Most of those references are to Continental, not Canadian. That was what I was trying to point out.

Answer 3

I have only seen the horrific pictures of puppy mills and back yard breeders, but thought I would post a link to a story about puppy mills for everyone to pass on. The author encourages the reproduction of the story until the day all puppy mills and back yard breeders are shut down.

http://www.malteseonly.com/petshoppuppies.html

Answer 4

It is a problem all over. There are many AKC breeders that do not care about the health of the dogs they have or produce either.

Answer 5

report these people to the organization that they belong . also inclose a pic so you have proof