Reply #268: Is your dog neutered? Also, do you know how he was bred? [View All]

[EmilyAnne]

This is just something that I am curious about.

My dog is a papillon and if you look up every possible bad quality that MIGHT be seen in a papillon, it describes her perfectly.
Both mentally and physically, she displays every single bad papillon quality that decent breeders would control for.
Unfortunately, she was bred in a now condemned puppy mill where the only motivation was to make an easy buck.
She was even used to breed a few litters until the place was shut down and I was then able to rescue the crazy thing.

I always wonder if the pit bulls who exhibit the worst of the POSSIBLE pit characteristics have the same sort of histories. Poor breeding plus the aggressiveness of being unfixed may be the real problems. All breeds come with a set of potential flaws and a reputable breeder will pay for genetic testing as well as note mental characteristics so as to remove these qualities from the next litter. So-called "backyard breeders" and puppy mills do not care about these things.