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orcinus-ocean · 5 years ago

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How long do our dogs really live?

If you read articles online about specific dog breeds or about dog breeds in general, they usually say this and that breed lives “12-14 years”, “10-12 years”, or, for the biggest and heaviest breeds, “8-10 years”.

But rarely if ever are sources mentioned. Instead it seems to mainly be a copy-paste assumption passed around the internet, where of course the heaviest and least healthy breeds are assumed to live “8-10 years”, the smallest and healthiest breeds “12-16 years”, and the rest somewhere in between.

Thankfully, Kennel Clubs have conducted studies on this exact topic, giving us a better picture. The United Kingdom’s KC did one study in 2004 and one in 2014.

The median among all dogs in the KC 2004 study was 11.25 years, and in the 2014 study, only 10 years. This is of course not a benchmark as “good lifespan”, simply the average among the purebred dogs in the Kennel Club surveys.

I will sort them by longest to shortest, and the studies are 2004 / 2014, and for some breeds, an additional Finnish Kennel Club study. The decimals are by %, not months. (I.e. 3 months is 25% = .25, 9 months are 75% = .75, etc.).

Of course, this is by no means perfect, as the surveys usually had fairly low response rates, and the numbers of deceased dogs reported are sometimes very small (those that consist of a sample of less than 20 dogs are marked cursive, and those with less than 10 dogs were mostly discarded, as they are highly unreliable).

In the 2014 study, the KC itself omitted the median age at death for any breed with less than 30 deceased dogs reported.

The KC also notes that the two studies were carried out differently, and that the second had only a third of the data of the first one, so they should not be compared directly.

The studies also include deaths caused by accidents, like being hit by a car or being killed by another animal, as well as being put down for behavior problems.

It is however likely to be far more reliable than a quick Google or Wikipedia search.

Very long-lived breeds

Toy Poodle: 14.7 years / N/A Tibetan Spaniel: 14.4 years / N/A Lhasa Apso: 14.3 years / N/A Swedish Vallhund: 14.2 years / N/A Miniature Poodle: 13.9 years / N/A Basenji: 13.6 years / N/A Italian Greyhound: 13.5 years / N/A Bedlington Terrier: 13.4 years / N/A Norwich Terrier: 13.4 years / N/A Cairn Terrier: 14 / 12.5 years Fox Terrier: 13.2 years / N/A Shih-Tzu: 13.2 years / N/A Schipperke: 13 years / N/A West Highland White Terrier: N/A / 13 years Border Terrier: 14 / 12 years Bearded Collie: 13.5 / 12.5 years

Average lifespan breeds

Bichon Frisé: 12.9 years / N/A Brittany: 12.9 years / N/A Hovawart: 12.9 years / N/A Manchester Terrier: 12.8 years / N/A Dachshund: 12.7 years / N/A Welsh Terrier: 12.7 years / N/A Norwegian Buhund: 12.7 years / N/A Siberian Husky: 12.6 years / N/A Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier: 12.5 years / N/A Belgian Shepherd: 12.5 years / N/A Samoyed: 12.5 years / N/A Welsh Springer Spaniel: 12.6 / 12 years Maltese: 12.25 years / N/A Sealyham Terrier: 12.25 years / N/A Welsh Corgi Pembroke: 12.25 years / N/A Welsh Corgi Cardigan: 12.2 years / N/A Dandie Dinmont Terrier: 12.2 years / N/A Tibetan Terrier: 12.2 years / N/A Keeshond: 12.2 years / N/A Border Collie: 12.25 / 12 years Golden Retriever: 12.25 / 12 years Basset Griffon Vendéen: 12.1 years / N/A Australian Terrier: 12.1 years / N/A English Toy Terrier: 12 years / N/A Standard Poodle: 12 / 12 years Griffon Bruxellois: 12 years / N/A Saluki: 12 years / N/A Rough Collie: N/A / 12 years

Afghan Hound: 11.9 years / N/A Tibetan Mastiff: 11.9 years / N/A Staffordshire Bull Terrier: 12.75 / 11 years Pharaoh Hound: 11.8 years / N/A Labrador Retriever: 12.25 / 11 years Shetland Sheepdog: 12.5 / 11 years Lancashire Heeler: 11.75 years / N/A Dalmatian: 12.5 / 11 years Pointer: 12.4 / 11 years Field Spaniel: 11.7 years / N/A Australian Cattle Dog: 11.7 years / N/A Whippet: 12.8 / 10 years Gordon Setter: 11.1 / 12 years English Springer Spaniel: 12 / 11 years Irish Setter: 12 / 11 years Affenpinscher: 11.4 years / N/A Pekingese: 11.4 years German Pinscher: 11.4 years / N/A Irish Red and White Setter: 11.4 years / N/A Beagle: 12.7 / 10 years Grosser Münsterländer: 11.3 years / N/A Bouvier des Flandres: 11.3 years / N/A Basset Hound: 11.3 years / N/A English Setter: 11.6 / 11 years German Spitz: 11.3 years / N/A Sussex Spaniel: 11.2 years / N/A Finnish Spitz: 11.2 years / N/A Briard: 11.2 years / N/A Cocker Spaniel: 11.2 / 11 years Miniature Schnauzer: 12.1 / 10 years German Shorthaired Pointer: 12 / 10 years Vizsla (smooth): N/A / 11 years Skye Terrier: 11 years / N/A Pug: 11 years / N/A

Lower than average lifespan breeds

Boston Terrier: 10.9 years / N/A Old English Sheepdog: 10.75 / 11 years Pyrenean Sheepdog: N/A / N/A / 10.8 years Anatolian Shepherd: 10.75 years / N/A Airedale Terrier: 10.75 / 10 years Chesapeake Bay Retriever: 10.75 years / N/A Curly-coated Retriever: 10.75 years / N/A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: 11.4 / 10 years Alaskan Malamute: 10.7 years / N/A Weimaraner: 11.2 / 10 years Glen of Imaal Terrier: 10.4 years (only 6 dogs) / N/A Basset Fauve de Bretagne: 10.4 years / N/A American Cocker Spaniel: 10.3 years / N/A Scottish Terrier: 10.25 years / N/A Chinese Crested: 10.1 years / N/A Rhodesian Ridgeback: 11 / 9 years German Wirehaired Pointer: 10 years / N/A German Shepherd: N/A / 10 years Giant Schnauzer: 10 years / N/A Maremma: 10 years / N/A

Flat-coated Retriever: 9.8 / 10 years Newfoundland: 9.7 / 10 years American Akita: 9.8 years / N/A Wirehaired Vizsla: 9.8 years / N/A Pomeranian: 9.7 years / N/A Boxer: 10.25 / 9 years Polski Owczarek Nizinny: 9.6 years / N/A Irish Water Spaniel: 9.3 years / N/A Japanese Chin: 9.25 years / N/A Dobermann: 10.5 / 8 years Komondor: 9.2 years / N/A Borzoi: 9.1 years / N/A Greyhound: 9.1 years / N/A Australian Shepherd: 9 years / N/A French Bulldog: 9 years / N/A Spinone: 9 / 9 years

Very short-lived breeds

Scottish Deerhound: 8.7 years / N/A Finnish Lapphund: 7.3 (only 5 dogs) / N/A / 10 years Bull Terrier: 10 / 7 years Rottweiler: 8.9 / 8 years Bernese Mountain Dog: 8 years / 8 years Český Terrier: 8.4 (only 9 dogs) / N/A / 8.75 years Leonberger: 7.1 / 9 years Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever: 8 (only 9 dogs) / N/A / 7.9 years Bullmastiff: 7.5 / 7 / 6.75 years Kooikerhondje: 3.9 years (only 7 dogs, the oldest was 13.9 years old) / N/A / 7.3 years Bloodhound: 6.75 years Irish Wolfhound: 7 / 6.5 years Great Dane: 6.5 / 7 years Saint Bernard: 7 / N/A / 5.75 years Miniature Bull Terrier: 6.1 years / N/A English Bulldog: 6.25 / 6 / 5.3 years Dogue de Bordeaux: 3.8 years (only 5 dogs, the oldest was 16 years old) / N/A / 6 years, and yet another study put them at 5.3 years Neapolitan Mastiff: N/A / N/A / 4.9 years Russian Black Terrier: 1.75 (4 dogs, the oldest was 11.5 years old) / N/A / 4.5 years

I know we don’t like to anthropomorphize, but this is the equivalent of a number of families or clans of humans - that are all equal in wealth, diet, and access to healthcare - but their average lifespan differs from 95 years to 38 years simply due to genetic illnesses.

It’s THAT extreme.

While diet can certainly affect the decrease in longevity in dogs overall, there is no reason to think that certain breeds usually get poorer food or healthcare than other breeds.

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suramarelf · 5 years ago

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Ok I made a giant list of anything I could think of!

Azerothian Dog Breeds!

THALASSIAN:

Pincer (Doberman)

Greyhound (Afghan)

Terrier (Rat)

Hound (Pharaoh)

Setter (Irish)

Borzoi

Ridgeback

(Fond of sleek, elegant, and powerful guard dogs and lap dogs with coats the color of fall)

DARNASSIAN:

Retriever

Whippet

Greyhound (Dogs that could keep up with the extremely fast sprints of the Kaldorei in dense forest, especially in cat or travel form, are very useful companions)

(Not very fond of dogs… Seem to be cat people)

GILNEAN:

Greyhound

Great Dane

Bull Mastiff

Husky

Leonberger

Bull-Terrier

(Fond of sturdy, heavy power breeds, good luck trying to find small dogs that originate from here. Lots of dusty brown/grey/black coated doggos... And lots of slobber)

WESTFALL:

Boxer

Shepherd (australian)

Terrier (Irish, Jack-Russell)

Mutts

Coonhound

(Lots of terrier type dogs to keep pests away from crops and to guard barns, think your typical farm field dogs)

ELWYNN:

Border Collie

Labrador

Beagle

Basset-Hound

Terrier (Welsh)

Setters (Gordon, English, Irish, etc)

Wolfhound

Pointers

Bull Dog

(Probably lots of hunting hounds that do well in heavily forested areas)

LORDAERON:

Deerhound (Scottish)

Shepherd (German)

Rottweiler

Pincer (Doberman)

Bloodhound

Schnauzer

Elkhound (Norwegian)

Wolfhound

(Fond of big yet lean and powerful hunting dogs/hounds, light colored coats are extremely rare)

DWARVEN:

Dachshund

Mountain Dog

Husky

Malamute

Akita

Eskimo Dog

Newfoundland Dog

Saint Bernard

(Fond of sturdy and resilient dogs with thick coats that can withstand extreme cold and underground caves, you’ll never see a short haired dwarven dog)

PANDARIAN:

Chow-Chow

Crested Dog (Chinese)

Shih-Tzu

Mastiff (Tibetan)

Shar-pei

Pekingese (popular traveling buddies for the Grummles!)

(Fond of lap dogs with coats that can be styled and maintained to display and show off)

SHALASSIAN:

Poodle

Dalmation

Pomeranian

Papillon

Spaniel (French, Cocker)

Bulldog (French)

Pug

Saluki

(Many little yappy lap dogs, all with bows or carried in purses and enchants on their fur; fond of dogs with beautiful/unique/interesting patterned coats)

VRYKUL:

Mountain dogs

Shepherds (German)

Pointers/Hounds

Bloodhounds

Weimaraner

Deerhound

Husky/Malamute/Akita

Wolfhound/Wolfdogs

(Massive aggressive dogs specially bred to fit the size and harsh cold of Northrend, many have their smaller more normal sized counterparts around other parts of Azeroth like the bloodhound and shepherds)

ORCISH:

Wolfdogs

Pitbull

Boxer

Mastiff (Bull, Neopolitan

Cane Corso

Dogue de Bordeaux

Boerboel

Rottweiler

Malamute

(As you can already tell, many wolves and wolfdog breeds here, extremely big and strong dogs with a fatal bite every time, but very snuggly and loyal to the death!)

SHU’HALO:

Mountain Dog (Bernese)

Saint Bernard

Labradors

Leonberger

Sheepdog

Vizsla

(Lots of gentle giants, mainly used for work and companionship, sometimes herding kodo! Fans of coats that accent and compliment nature well, such as white, brown, and blonde)

ZANDALRI/TROLL:

Xoloitzcuintli

Chihuahua

Terrier (Brazilian)

Dogo Argentino

Peruvian Inca Orchid

Pharaoh Hound

Ibizan Hound

(Typically smaller dogs that keep sneaky little saurids away from city streets and marketplaces; small dogs with little hair to protect from intense tropical heat and humidity; Forest trolls prefer dogs with thick, brown coats to blend in with the environment around them, and ice trolls have taken many of the breeds the Vrykul have bred)

Draenic:

Probably a lot of slender/lithe looking dogs like greyhounds, whippets, great danes, etc

And lapdogs!

But alien.

(Some of these were probably cross bred with orcish breeds on the Outlands, specifically in Shattrath to create therapy/working/guard dogs to roam the city. Coat colors are probably colorful and vibrant as they were on Argus, or a mix of natural and colorful!)

*Headcanon that elven dogs often have a bit of magic in their blood and genetics, including things like resistance to certain magics, self healing, stamina, enchantments to improve appearance, lifebonds to their owner, and lifespan. And glowy eyes! Some elves even allow their dogs (and pets) to be enchanted with the ability to speak, though this isn’t common.

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khorkina-na-na · 4 years ago

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This doesn’t acknowledge the current source of the problem with people buying dogs for aesthetics - Instagram

As a vet I now regularly see people get dogs to be “Instagram dogs”.

Not “my dog is cute so I made him an Instagram”

but

“I measure my self worth in likes and comments and everyone likes dogs, so I bought a unique looking dog so I can make it an Instagram”.

People want breeds with photogenic aesthetics. Pugs and French bulldogs have big goofy eyes and their compressed faces always look expressive on camera. Dachshunds might be prone to spinal diseases but they look so unique. It’s sick.

The second insane thing not acknowledged is that when breeds are high in demand all rules go out the window for profit. So breeders will breed puppies not just with health issues but puppies with bad personalities.

High demand and people willing to pay thousands of dollars leads to unscrupulous breeders not caring if a dog is agressive because by the time you notice that it’s aggressive and anti-social it’s way too late to get your money back. Caps and restrictions on breeding would stop breeders from selling time-bomb dogs and prevent behaviour related abandonment and euthanasia.

Anxiety, aggression and anti-social behaviours definitely have a link to DNA. Some examples of breeds with built in anger & behaviour issues include Sharpei’s, Akita’s, Miremas, Lagottos and Golden retrievers most recently. If you have one of these dogs and it’s dangerous or anxious I can almost guarantee it’s not you it’s the genetic makeup of the dog.

Over breeding and breeding for massive profits drive these problems and the only thing I can do is try to do my best to educate buyers before they get their puppy.

“But why do you care so much about flat faced dogs when there are lots of other problems in domestic animals?”

Listen. Ten years ago when I started practicing as a vet it was uncommon to see a pug. It was quite rare to see a boston terrier or a french bulldog.

There has been years of veterinarians campaigning against the breeding of extreme brachycephalic or ‘flat faced’ dogs and where has that gotten us?

About a third the new puppies coming through the clinic are brachycephalic. This is especially obvious with the influx of covid puppies, but this style of dog and the inherent suffering of brachycephalic airway syndrome has just become more popular.

We harp on about it because it is still a growing problem.

And it’s obscene. These dogs sell for multiple thousands of dollars, up to $12,000 for a ‘rare’ color, and people are willing to pay that. Some even take out loans to buy these dogs that breeders say ‘are healthy’.

It’s ludicrous. These dogs have shortened lifespans, struggle to breathe (sometimes surgery improves it but not always), skin problems, dental problems, heart problems, airway problems, digestive problems, knee problems and often hip problems. There is barely an inch of these dogs that are normal. That is so much preventable suffering.

For some reason people get addicted to these dogs, once they’ve had one, they usually get two or three, usually before they get old enough to really be obvious with their problems.

And breeders do not care, it’s too profitable to care. A lot of these pups are coming from places that have 4 or more breeding females, or are being transported in from obscure country locations. They are insanely profitable and small enough to breed in suburbia.

There’s too much money, too much public demand, and too much suffering. Honestly I’m reaching the point where I would say that breeding these dogs without a minimum length of nose should be illegal.

Because information campaigns havent worked, but we keep harping on about it.

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hfgujgu · 3 years ago

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Best Brindle Dog Breeds Which Dogs Are This Characteristic Color?

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Best Brindle Dog Breeds Which Dogs Are This Characteristic Color?

Searching for Brindle Dog Breeds? Streak canines have hitting covers with an earthy colored establishment highlighting dark or browns stripes overlaid.

Presently, various varieties accompany a particular Brindle Dog, and it's brought about by a passive quality as we'll layout beneath.

At the point when Brindle Color Dog is heavier and hazier, this is the customary mottle. At the point when the shading is lighter, it's known as converse spot. With switch Brindle Colored Dog Breeds, the lighter tone is more articulated against the more obscure foundation.

Some mottles have a tone of blue, while others are ruddy brown.

This means anybody searching for a Brindle Color Dog first necessities to consider the Brindle Dog Breeds probably going to display this coat prior to multiplying down on the sort of example that most outwardly requests.

The present gathering of the Brindle Dog Breeds covers every one of the canines probably going to be mottle. You can likewise discover striped shading in different varieties.

What might be said about this latent quality, then, at that point?

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Chapter by chapter list

I. What Causes The Brindle Pattern On Some Dogs?

II. 20 Best Brindle Dog Breeds

1) Greyhound

2) Akita

3) Boxer

4) Great Dane

5) Basenji

6) Mastiff

7) Pit Bull

8) Dachshund

9) Bull Terrier

10) Boston Terrier

11) Cardigan Welsh Corgi

12) Plott

13) Treeing Tennessee Brindle

14) Whippet

15) Cairn Terrier

16) Dutch Shepherd

17) French Bulldog

18) Staffordshire Bull Terrier

19) Irish Wolfhound

20) Jack Russell Terrier

I. What Causes The Brindle Pattern On Some Dogs?

What Dogs Have Brindle Coats design is brought about by a hereditary quality actually like other coat tones.

The quality series on a canine's DNA strand decides his shading design. These are lettered with the change found at the K locus capable. There are three unique quality varieties at this locus. One of these makes the canine all dark. One is a default choice from one of the guardians. The other of these makes a Brindle Dog Breeds. With this change, albeit spot is prevailing over yellow, it stays latent to the canine's dark quality.

In this way, in the event that you like bringing one of these eye-getting monsters into your home, stay with any of the accompanying Brindle Dog Breeds and you'll expand your odds of tracking down a Brindle Colored Dog Breeds hide child.

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II. 20 Best Brindle Dog Breeds

Greyhound

Akita

Fighter

Extraordinary Dane

Basenji

Mastiff

American Staffordshire Terrier

Dachshund

Bull Terrier

Boston Terrier

Pullover Welsh Corgi

Plott

Treeing Tennessee Brindle

Whippet

Cairn Terrier

Dutch Shepherd

French Bulldog'

Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Irish Wolfhound

Jack Russell Terrier

1) Greyhound

Greyhounds would one say one are of the most Brindle Dog Breeds most regularly connected with What Dogs Have Brindle Coats?

This variety highlights canines with an assortment of Brindle Color Dog from beat up to red and grovel, just as various mixes inside that range.

You may envision these canines are consistently in a hurry, and they surely are dynamic. They expect 20 to 30 minutes of activity daily, however they are inclined to extensive spells on the lounge chair, as well. Greyhounds make loose and cherishing pets.

On the off chance that you discover a salvage greyhound, you might find that abuse throughout the long term leaves these canines rather timid and resigning, potentially risky for first-time proprietors searching for a more intuitive little guy. Assuming you need an adorable and charming Brindle Dog Breeds, a greyhound ought to be one of your go-to choices.

2) Akita

Akitas come in grouped shadings, a few Brindle Dog mixes included.

These canines were reared for hunting and following, so make incredible gatekeeper canines. This wolf-like variety is obstinate and autonomous yet has a wildly defensive streak. They will require cautious socialization to stop their forceful nature rising to the top. This variety likewise has an amazing prey drive, which means they frequently respond ominously to different canines in the house.

Like salvage greyhounds, Akitas are testing pets for first-time proprietors, however they settle on a strong decision for anybody encountered raising canines.

3) Boxer

Fighters are either grovel or Brindle Color Dog. The streak characteristic is predominant in this variety, so just one duplicate of the passive quality is needed to achieve a spot fighter. All things considered, Brindle Colored Dog Breeds fighters are typical.

Delicate and amicable, fighters structure close, solid bonds with their families. They are super-patient around youngsters and children, as well.

This variety requests a sensible measure of info. In case you're ready to invest a lot of time playing with your fighter just as fulfilling his energy needs, he'll bring you beloved newborns, and all there's possibilities he will be streak in shading.

4) Great Dane

One of the world's biggest Brindle Dog Breeds, extraordinary Danes weigh as much as 200 pounds and they can stand just about 3 feet tall. Given these supersized measurements, this variety is a helpless decision on the off chance that you live in a condo or squeezed house.

One of the significant downsides of this variety – beside the food bill – is the measure of slobber they produce. In addition to the fact that some people track down these unappealing or tacky, however it likewise will in general get all around the floors and furniture if you don't watch out.

All things considered, these canines are astoundingly adorable and they are quiet around the house in spite of that transcending size.

Possessing an incredible Dane is an encounter, yet it's an encounter you should be prepared to accept head-on. Among the nine distinctively shaded extraordinary Danes, you'll discover Brindle Dog Breeds.

5) Basenji

Up until the 1980s, the Basenji in the United States didn't come in Brindle Color Dog structure. Because of the ailments burdening this variety, a few reproducers imported Central African Basenji, canines with the Brindle Dog.

Quiet and calm, Basenji have gained notoriety for faithfulness. These canines probably won't be the most well-known variety yet they settle on a shrewd decision for new canine proprietors searching for a simple prologue to pet nurturing.

6) Mastiff

The mastiff comes in grovel, apricot, and Brindle Colored Dog Breeds shading designs.

However long you have a lot of room at home, a mastiff will opening flawlessly into any family. In spite of the fact that they are enormous and cumbersome, you will not have to give a lot of time to work out. Mastiffs are completely content to loll around at home for broadened periods. This makes them pretty low support pets, and they would likewise be undeniably fit to new proprietors arranged to manage a canine that can gauge north of 200 pounds.

In case you're ready for the situation, a mastiff will before long charm himself to the entire family.

7) Pit Bull

Pit bulls have experienced throughout the long term a supported assault in the media. While these canines can be awful, they are among the more adorable Brindle Dog Breeds when they are appropriately prepared and part of a caring home.

Little and stocky, these canines resemble a shot of unadulterated muscle and energy, with tails continually swaying and eyes loaded up with fun.

Spot Colored Dog Breeds is one of the more normal shading designs in this variety, so in case you're ready to act notwithstanding the promotion, a pit bull makes an extraordinary pet.

8) Dachshund

Wiener canines or dachshunds are distinctively low canines with an agreeable and active nature.

The American Kennel Club doesn't perceive Brindle Dog Breeds among the tones dachshunds show, yet numerous reproducers have presented this assortment of wiener canine.

These small canines are extraordinary on the off chance that you have children in the house. Their downsized measurements likewise make them ideal canines for condo occupants. All things considered, they can be very vocal, so they don't make the best on the off chance that you like a tranquil, quiet headquarters.

9) Bull Terrier

Bull terriers are medium-sized canines with an extremely unconventional appearance and sacks of character.

You'll discover this variety with 13 diverse shading designs. Among these are a few Brindle Dog.

Despite the fact that you may envision these sturdy and strong furballs are aloof, they are amicable and incredibly faithful, even by demanding canine guidelines.

In case you're considering bringing a bull terrier home, you ought to know about their standing for forcefully biting. Ensure they have an indestructible bed and the right tough bite toys.

10) Boston Terrier

The Boston Terrier is casually known as the American honorable man. He is named accordingly for his respectful way and coat taking after a tuxedo.

Among the five standard shading designs found in Boston Terrier, there are three distinct Brindle Color Dog assortments.

This variety is inclined to overheating when the mercury rises, actually like other short-confronted Brindle Dog Breeds. All things considered, they additionally have extremely short covers and little heights, delivering them not exactly reasonable for cold environments.

Boston terriers are pocket-sized, weighing somewhere in the range of 10 to 20 pounds. They make an incredible canine in the event that you live in a loft or anyplace with restricted space.

11) Cardigan Welsh Corgi

The pullover Welsh corgi was reproduced for crowding obligations.

These canines arrive in a modest bunch of shading designs, Brindle Dog notwithstanding. Their jackets are exceptionally thick and inclined to shedding, so ensure you're mindful of this prior to adding one of these canines to your home.

House preparing this variety can be off-kilter, so first-time proprietors should reconsider.

While you may not envision this when you see their squat legs, these canines are exceptionally dynamic and dexterous, so be ready to give them a lot of activity to forestall fretfulness.

12) Plott

The Plott dog was initially reproduced to track and corner game like pig and bear. Today, the canines are still broadly utilized for this reason. They have additionally become very normal as pets.

In case you're an unpracticed canine proprietors, we would propose investigating other Brindle Dog Breeds.

Plott dogs need a lot of space to meander and stretch their legs. They are likewise liable to show damaging practices

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1/2 I feel like I need to say something about brachy breeds. People say those traits were bred later on for looks like the pug for example. But if you take a look at pictures of the Japanese Chin including old pictures of it from Japan. You see it always had a flat face. I see you love Dobermans and they have their health issues as well as you said. Most of brachy breeds like the Japanese Chin and Chihuahua were bred by Asians and Native Americans. I can't help but think that maybe one reason-

2/2 could be due to racism? Because most of these breeds they're not targeting are of European origin. Even though they have just as many health problems. I can't help but think it's not a coincidence.

I’m not going to deny, because I don’t want to say “no” and then find something out and the answer was really “yes”, but I think something to keep in mind is that while the pug and pekingese are Chinese in origin, the other two breeds that people tend to harp on for exceedingly flat faces are the French and English bulldogs. So... not exactly reserved for non-white, non-European cultures.

Brachy breeds recognized by the AKC are:

Affenpinscher (Germany)

American Bulldog (United States)

Boston Terrier (United States)

Boxer (Germany)

Brussels Griffon (Belgium)

Bulldog (England)

Bullmastiff (England)

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (England)

Chihuahua (Mexico)

(American) Cocker Spaniel (technically England but technically United States)

Dogue de Bordeaux (France)

English Toy Spaniel (England)

French Bulldog (France)

Japanese Chin (Japan)

Pekingese (China)

Pug (China)

Saint Bernard (”the Alps”)

Shih Tzu (China)

Tibetan Spaniel (Tibet)

And breeds that I personally would consider somewhat brachy- whether their breed standard says they should be or not being irrelevant- because various purebred, even winning dogs of these breeds certainly do fit that ratio and it seems people forget about these functional and occasionally short-snouted dogs:

(American) Akita (technically Japan but technically United States)

American Pit Bull Terrier (non-AKC but I’ve seen photos of historic dogs with brachy heads and some modern dogs are inching closer)

American Staffordshire Terrier (United States)

Bernese Mountain Dog (Switzerland)

Boerboel (South Africa... but by white European colonizers)

Cane Corso (Italy)

Caucasian Shepherd (”the Caucasus mountains”)

Chow Chow (technically China but technically England)

Dogo Argentino (Argentina)

Golden Retriever (Scotland)

Greater Swiss Mountain Dog (”the Alps”/Switzerland)

Labrador Retriever (Canada)

Maltese (Malta)

Mastiff (England)

Neapolitan Mastiff (Rome)

Newfoundland (Canada)

Presa Canario (Canary Islands... but by white European colonizers)

Pointer (England)

Pomeranian (Poland/Germany)

Portuguese Pointer (Portugal) (also full disclosure, I didn’t know these existed until writing this post and those are definitely some short snouts)

Rottweiler (Germany)

Russian Toy (Russia)

Spanish Mastiff (Spain)

Staffordshire Bull Terrier (England)

Sussex Spaniel (England)

Tibetan Mastiff (Tibet)

Tosa (Japan)

Yorkshire Terrier (technically Scotland but technically England)

I would say that’s hardly “most” brachy breeds being bred by Asians and Native Americans, even if you don’t include my borderline list where some dogs are definitely toeing the line or even over it and other dogs are not (even though most of those dogs have standards that do not call for a brachy skull or even consider the skull to be faulty- it still happens). As a result, I don’t think I could, in good faith, state for sure that it’s definitely racism that makes people dislike brachy breeds. Most are European in origin and even those that are constantly brought up in Brachy Bad Takes (tm) are half Chinese (pugs, pekingese) and half European (French and English bulldogs).

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DOG FIGHT

Rescuer Theresa Strader says she’s seen a change at the breeder auctions, with more rescuers attending and some paying high prices for dogs—a practice she questions.

Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn

By Kim Kavin

April 18, 2018

An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.

The result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the breeders, two groups that have long disparaged each other. The rescuers call many breeders heartless operators of inhumane “puppy mills” and work to ban the sale of their dogs in brick-and-mortar pet stores. The breeders call “retail rescuers” hypocritical dilettantes who hide behind nonprofit status while doing business as unregulated, online pet stores.

But for years, they have come together at dog auctions where no cameras are allowed, with rescuers enriching breeders and some breeders saying more puppies are being bred for sale to the rescuers.

Bidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation’s two government-regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents The Washington Post obtained from an industry insider. At the auctions, rescuers have purchased dogs from some of the same breeders who face activist protests, including some on the Humane Society of the United States’ “Horrible Hundred” list or the “No Pet Store Puppies” database of breeders to avoid, maintained by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

After the investigation: USDA says individuals and groups may need license if buying dogs for rescue at auction

Most rescuers then offered the dogs for adoption as “rescued” or “saved.”

Most of the breeders who sell dogs at auction are commercial, which means they have at least four breeding females, sell to intermediaries and are federally regulated. Years ago, when more commercial breeders existed, rescuers attended auctions to buy surplus dogs that seemed to be everywhere, longtime auction participants say. But the success of the rescue movement in reducing shelter populations, some rescuers say, has been driving rescuers to the auction market. As the number of commercial kennels has decreased, so has the number of shelter animals killed in the United States: A February 2017 estimate put the total for dogs alone at 780,000, a steep drop from estimates for all shelter animals that were as high as 20 million in the 1970s.

The smaller populations of shelter dogs make it harder for some rescue groups, especially those dedicated to specialty breeds, to find what adopters want. One golden retriever rescue group turned to the auctions after seeing 40 percent fewer dogs coming in as of 2016. At the auctions, such rescuers describe buying purebreds and popular crossbreeds like goldendoodles and maltipoos as “puppy mill rescue.”

Golden retriever puppies, center, at Sugarfork Kennels in Goodman, Mo., on March 7.

“We have breeders that breed for the auction,” says Will Yoder, a commercial breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels in Bloomfield, Iowa. “It’s a huge, huge underground market. It’s happening at an alarming rate.”

Many people are unaware of the practice. About 50 of the 86 groups that The Post linked to auction bidders made no mention of auctions on their Web pages, 20 described what they were doing as “puppy mill rescue” or “auction rescue,” and 10 mentioned words such as “bought” or “purchased” at auction but did not say online how much they paid per dog.

Leading nonprofit animal-welfare groups, including the ASPCA, HSUS and the American Kennel Club purebred advocacy group, say rescuers are misguided in buying dogs at auction because the money they pay only encourages more breeding on a commercial scale.

Abigail Anderson, who owns Sugarfork, checks on huskies.

“Although they may be doing good things for individual dogs purchased at auctions, it perpetuates the problem and tends to create a seller’s market,” says Brandi Hunter, the AKC’s spokeswoman.

Rescuers at the auctions say their purchases save individual dogs and weaken the commercial breeding chain by removing, spaying and neutering dogs that would otherwise be bred again and again. They say donors ranging from average dog lovers to show-dog breeders understand, and financially support, their efforts.

“It’s a very controversial thing, for rescuers to buy dogs at auction,” says Jeanette DeMars, founder of Corgi Connection of Kansas, who discloses to donors that she buys auction dogs. “Some are of the opinion that you’re putting money in the breeders’ pockets. Others say you’re saving the dogs from a life of breeding. My opinion is that if people are willing to donate and it doesn’t take money out of my regular rescue, I will do it.”

“There are very good, responsible rescues that just love the dogs … and I think there are malicious, lying, cheating rescues that are in it for the money.”

Bob Hughes, owner of Southwest Auction Service, the biggest commercial dog auction in the country

JoAnn Dimon, director of Big East Akita Rescue in New Jersey, says that buying breeding-age dogs not only cuts into overbreeding but also makes it harder for commercial breeders to profit in the long run.

“That breeder is going to make thousands of dollars off that [female dog] if he breeds her every cycle,” Dimon said. “I just bought her for $150. I just took money out of his pocket. I got the dog, and I stopped the cycle.”

The majority of the $2.68 million The Post documented was spent since 2013 at Southwest Auction Service, the biggest commercial dog auction in the country, with some additional spending at its smaller, only remaining competitor, Heartland Sales. Southwest originated in Wheaton, Mo., in 1988, and Heartland was founded in Cabool, Mo., in 2003, as a marketplace for breeders. As the last remaining government-licensed auctions, they let buyers and sellers see hundreds of dogs at a time and are a legal part of the country’s puppy supply chain. They are regulated by the U.S. and Missouri Departments of Agriculture and open to the public.

RESCUERS BUY DOGS FROM BREEDERS AT AUCTIONS

Documents obtained by an industry source reveal a shadow market:

The dog rescuers put the puppies up for adoption as rescue dogs.

Commercial breeders produce specialty puppy breeds.

The breeders sell their puppies at auctions, often to rescue groups.

The customer may not know the dog was bought at an auction.

“I’m not going to lie about this: Rescue generates about one-third, maybe even 40 percent of our income,” says Bob Hughes, Southwest’s owner. “It’s been big for 10 years.”

Hughes said his auction is open to everyone but people with cameras because “our customers don’t want to be on animal-activist websites being called ‘puppy mills.’ ”

Hank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland, says rescuers usually account for 15 to 25 percent of his business. He says he gets fewer rescuers than Southwest because he often bans from his auction rescuers who publicly call breeders “puppy mills.”

“At our auction, I think 75 percent of the people who sell dogs, and the rescues who come to our sale, will do things the right way,” he said. “The particular rescuers who come to our sale, they’re a blessing. For the most part, they buy dogs that breeders don’t want, and they’re not paying a lot of money.”

Jolene Roper takes two German shepherds for a walk at National Mill Dog Rescue in Peyton, Colo., on March 9.

Hughes says he sees those types of rescuers at Southwest, too, but also those who use auction purchases to rake in huge online donations.

“I honestly think there are very good, responsible rescues that just love the dogs and want to get them out of the breeding industry,” Hughes says. “And I think there are malicious, lying, cheating rescues that are in it for the money and the glory and the funding.”

In early February, Grosenbacher’s auction brought in $132,000, while Hughes notched his biggest sales revenue ever, taking in more than $600,000. One rescuer, Jessica Land, who helps operate Dog Ranch Rescue and Lone Star Dog Ranch in Texas, paid $8,750 for a pregnant French bulldog at Southwest, an invoice shows. Land declined to comment for this article.

“The French bulldog that Lone Star paid $8,750 to buy in February was pregnant with five fetuses,” Hughes said. “An ultrasound showed it. Now, if there’s five fetuses worth $2,000 a puppy, that’s $10,000 in puppies and the mama’s a young female, so a breeder would say, ‘I got all my money back in one litter and own the dog for free and she’ll produce for another five years.’ ”

After this article was published, Lone Star posted on Facebook that it adopted out the five puppies for $1,850 apiece, and the adult dog for $1,350, a total income of $10,600. The group wrote that after paying medical expenses it would lose $2,421 on the deal—including possible refunds of as much as $750 should all the adopters, in the future, choose to spay or neuter the puppies.

“For rescues like ourselves who take care of all the vetting the dog needs no matter the cost…THERE IS NO PROFIT,” the group wrote in its post. “You see we actually take care of every medical need that these dogs have that have never been addressed.”

Two female huskies at Sugarfork.

‘I’d never sold a dog for $10,000’

The Southwest auction may be the country’s largest, but finding it requires knowing that it’s there. It is held behind a gate and down a dirt driveway, in a barn on private property. It is in a part of Missouri so rural that the 2010 Census showed the nearest town — Wheaton — had only 696 residents.

Prospective buyers park in a dirt lot, then go inside to register for bidding cards. They sit in bleachers that surround a table down in front, where dogs and puppies are brought out from a room in the back. Sometimes, the auctioneer puts one dog up for bid, and other times, a whole litter of puppies will be on the table. Some of them play while the people all around put a price on them, and children in the bleachers — whose parents are bidding — eat snacks and watch.

At any given auction, as many as several hundred dogs and puppies might be sold, with bidding starting in the morning and running until dinnertime, even past sundown. At most auctions, various breeders typically offer anywhere from a handful to two dozen dogs, so the mix available for bid can run the alphabet from Akitas and Australian shepherds to wire fox and Yorkshire terriers.

HIGHEST PRICES PAID PER BREED BY RESCUERS AT DOG AUCTIONS

Invoices from Southwest Auction in Missouri, received from an industry source, show people affiliated with dog rescue organizations paying high prices to buy some of the most popular U.S. purebreds in a practice they refer to as “puppy mill rescue.”

* Will Yoder, a commercial breeder, bought two Cavaliers at Southwest Auction for $7,550, but sold them an hour later in a post-auction deal when a rescuer offered $10,000 per dog.

The auction at Southwest on Nov. 22, 2014, was different — and showed that a breed-specific rescuer, flush with donated cash, will pay five figures for a single dog.

An Alabama breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels was going out of business, so the sale would have more than 130 Cavaliers. There was serious money in play that day from Cavalier rescuers. One rescuer’s GoFundMe.com campaign had netted $188,815, and another’s YouCaring.com fundraiser brought in $157,955. “Don’t Let These Sweet Cavaliers go to a Disreputable Home,” a rescuer wrote on the YouCaring.com site, warning donors of the “many other less than reputable breeders at this auction.”

For the first few hours that day in Missouri, rescuers won every bid. Then Will Yoder, the Cavalier breeder from Iowa, broke through. He says he does not support or usually attend auctions, so he can still remember the moment that he won two Cavaliers, for $3,600 and $3,950.

“There was just dead silence,” Yoder says. “This was, like, the first dog that went to a breeder that day. The pressure was on. The first dog just went to a horrible puppy mill. That’s what they’re thinking.”

As he waited to pay at the checkout counter, Yoder says, a rescuer approached and blurted, “So, how much profit?”

“It was like, they hate me, and they assume I hate them, and she just walked up and looked at me,” he says. “I knew what she meant: What do you want for your dogs? I looked at her and said, ‘I’m sorry, but they’re not for sale.’ ”

Yoder left with his two Cavaliers, but online pleas had already gone out to raise more money to buy his dogs in a post-auction deal. A forum run by Cavaliers Co UK, in Britain, listed the email address of Alabama-based rescuer Angie Ingram and said she was a person collecting PayPal donations.

Comments on the forum emphasized the urgency: “Money is still being donated, hopefully an agreed fee for the dogs can be met with the money that is still coming in!!”

Cavaliers Co UK and Ingram did not respond to requests for comment.

“I didn’t think they would actually pay it. But it’s not their money, so money wasn’t an issue. I’d never sold a dog for $10,000, so I just thought, ‘Let’s see.’”

Will Yoder, a commercial breeder, bought two Cavaliers at Southwest Auction. He sold them in a post-auction deal.

Yoder says he was oblivious to the crush of fundraising. He was heading home to Iowa, sitting in the passenger seat with his Cavaliers in the back, when he reconsidered.

“I told the driver, ‘They really wanted those dogs,’ ” Yoder says. “We were just talking, and I said, ‘Money is obviously not an issue for them.’ ”

Yoder called the auction owner by cellphone and said he’d take $10,000 per Cavalier if the rescuer still wanted them.

“I was just curious,” Yoder says. “I didn’t think they would actually pay it. But it’s not their money, so money wasn’t an issue. I’d never sold a dog for $10,000, so I just thought, ‘Let’s see.’ ”

Within minutes, the auction owner and Yoder say, the deal was done: Documents show that Ingram paid $24,200 to buy the two Cavaliers for which Yoder had paid $8,305, with all the totals including the auction’s fees; the check was one of four that Ingram wrote that day, totaling $218,325 for 54 dogs, according to documents submitted by lawyers for Ingram and others in an Alabama libel lawsuit filed in the wake of the auction.

Southwest Auction’s owner says the dog sale held in early February was his biggest ever, generating more than $600,000. Dogs up for bid that day included a pregnant French Bulldog that, according to this invoice, a rescuer paid $8,750 to buy.

See more documents involved in reporting this story.

Ingram and six others sued several other rescuers alleging that they libeled the plaintiffs by publishing statements on a Facebook page called Beware Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, accusing them of using donated money to buy dogs for themselves and duping donors about rescuing Cavaliers.

“The Beware page and the information posted by others lacked any factual support and the unconscionable allegations contained therein were and are false, defamatory and libelous,” the plaintiffs complaint states.

Documents show that bidders now affiliated with the nonprofit Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, where Ingram is listed as animal welfare program director, have paid $406,872 buying 172 dogs and puppies at auction since 2014 — an average price of $2,365 per dog. Last year, more than half the dogs the nonprofit group says it saved were bought at auction, according to a link the group posted on Facebook showing that it has placed dogs in homes in 14 states.

Following this article’s publication, the group posted on Facebook that it pays an average price of $1,600 per dog at auction.

“We have NEVER profited off an auction dog,” the group stated in its post. “We are in the hole with EVERY single dog that we rescue from auction. We know this going into it and it is never about the money, it is only about saving lives.”

As for the two Cavaliers bought for $24,200, Ingram adopted one, and another rescuer adopted the other, both animals becoming personal pets, court documents show. Ingram and the other adopter each paid a $300 fee.

Lisa Thompson, co-founder of Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, said that on the advice of legal counsel, no one from her group would respond to The Post’s questions.

Yoder was thrilled to talk. He said he could not believe so much money was raised so quickly, or that he ended up with so much of it, given to him by people who say they despise commercial breeders.

“I was just like,” he pauses, chuckling, “this is crazy.”

One of Sugarfork’s female huskies. French bulldogs after mating at Sugarfork.

An elusive marketplace

Rescue groups generally are organized as nonprofit charities and raise money through fundraisers, adoption fees, grants and bequests. Shelters and rescue groups connected to the auction bidders have annual revenue that runs from $12,000 to $1.5 million, and they charge adoption fees that range from $50 to $1,850 per dog. The individuals who run these organizations receive salaries as high as $78,000, but many receive no compensation, according to tax forms.

The rescue movement used to include only shelters, but today it has an expansive network of home-based nonprofits, too. The noticeable increase in the number of such rescuers at the Missouri auctions began around 2005, about the same time that the nation’s rescue movement began to evolve. That is also about the time that self-described “puppy mill rescue” began to move into the mainstream.

Social media is boosting the “puppy mill rescue” movement today, with some rescuers seeking donations specifically to buy auction dogs. Amanda Giese, founder of Panda Paws Rescue in Washougal, Wash., posted several Facebook videos after spending $18,140 buying 32 dogs at the Southwest auction on Feb. 18, 2017, an invoice shows. Giese tells viewers, sometimes through tears, that she bought the dogs to save them from lives of sickness and torment in facilities with 400, 500 or 600 dogs that live in “rabbit hutches.” She is shown with Siberian husky puppies that she purchased, asking as she unloads them from the back of a van, “Do you want to touch green grass for the first time?”

Two of the Husky puppies that Giese bought, documents show, came from Sugarfork Kennels in Goodman, Mo., which has sold puppies to pet stores and directly to consumers since 1999, and which invites buyers to visit the kennel. At least one of Sugarfork’s grassy, sun-drenched enclosures, where big dogs such as Huskies run and play, is the size of a ballfield.

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Giese, reached by telephone, said she could not respond to The Post’s questions.

Rescuers who have been buying auction dogs for many years say it is unfair to characterize all commercial breeders as “puppy mills.” They say they consider some of the breeders at the auctions to be their friends who, for various reasons, have dogs or puppies they cannot sell in other ways, leaving them for rescuers to acquire.

“I think that as long as there are people raising dogs, there’s always going to be the adult dog that got too old,” said Jane Rosenthal of Storm Lake, Iowa, a former breeder and longtime auction buyer for numerous rescue groups. “There’s going to be the puppy with an overbite or its eye got hurt — the unsellable puppies. To me, that’s really what I always did for the most part, was pick up the crumbs at the bottom, those that nobody wanted.”

Rosenthal is a buyer who shows the nationwide reach that even a single rescue bidder can have from inside the auctions, making it all but impossible for consumers or regulators to determine a dog’s provenance. She has spent at least $150,972 buying 434 dogs at Southwest since 2014, an average price per dog of $347; and $103,304 buying 619 dogs at Heartland since 2009, at an average price of $166, documents show. She has bought corgis, Akitas, Cavaliers and many more breeds for rescue groups from California to Minnesota to New Jersey, records and interviews show.

“She has this great big van and gets dogs for all the rescues,” says Faith Humpal, president of Paws to Love K9 Rescue in South Dakota, who has attended auctions for about 15 years. “A lot of the rescues say, ‘We don’t buy dogs’ or ‘We don’t do this,’ but, yeah, they do.’ ”

Rosenthal said she is a volunteer bidder who does not consider her actions to be the same as buying dogs. She said she bids at the auctions for other rescuers who reimburse her. She said she cringes at the high prices some rescuers pay before showing off their auction-bought dogs online with descriptions such as “puppy mill rescue,” using the dogs “as poster children” to generate more donations from the public.

“You didn’t save that dog,” she said. “You paid $3,000 for it. You bought it, and you’re going to sell it. I don’t want any part of that.”

Helen Slate grooms a 4-year-old poodle at National Mill. Sonja Row cradles an 11-year-old male Maltese that has been at National Mill for just a few days. The National Mill rescue facility.

Theresa Strader agrees. She is founder of National Mill Dog Rescue in Colorado, a leading “anti-puppy mill” nonprofit organization with a website that states, “We do not pay the mills to rescue their dogs.” Invoices show that Strader paid breeders nearly $44,703 for 193 dogs at 11 auctions from 2014 to 2016; prices ranged from $1 (for a Chihuahua) to $1,325 (for a golden retriever), for an average price of $231 per dog.

“At least half of that money was groups that asked me to get dogs for them,” Strader said. Rescuers told The Post it is a common practice for rescuers to buy dogs for others. Strader used to get “penny dogs” with her personal money at Southwest before about 2013, she said, and today is disgusted by the large amounts she sees some rescuers spending.

“It became all the rage for rescuers to show up,” Strader said. “They’re creating an industry inside the industry. It’s really, really wrong.”

Strader is among those who say buying dogs for high prices at auction is not a form of rescue at all: “People who call this puppy mill rescue? That’s not honest. It’s just not.”

“The rescuers come in here with more money than the breeders.”

Hank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland Sales

The owners of Southwest Auction Service and Heartland Sales say the auction business is well-regulated and humane. Read more of what dog auctioneers said here.

Most breeders used to reserve all of their puppies and younger dogs for pet-store brokers and consumers. Now, at least some are taking them to auctions to sell to rescuers, Grosenbacher and some rescuers say.

“Originally, rescues attended auctions to get the old and the sick dogs, and we paid very little for them,” says Penny Reames, a Kansas rescuer who has attended the auctions for a decade, transferring the dogs to Northern New England Westie Rescue in New Hampshire, which adopts them out for as much as $1,000 apiece. “We don’t see those dogs so much anymore. Now it is primarily puppies who did not get bought by the brokers for one reason or another.”

At Heartland, owner Grosenbacher said, rescuers bid against each other for designer crossbred puppies such as morkies and puggles, and breeders consider the rescuers to be a reliable market for those pups because adopters clamor for them, making them a “cash cow” in the rescue community.

Kennel technician Tara York spends time with a golden retriever and her litter at Sugarfork.

“That’s the one thing that rescues will get in competition over,” he says. “They’ll stand right there and look each other in the eye and outbid each other. By and large, it’s the rescuers knocking each other out.”

Numerous rescuers told The Post that before every auction, in a secret Facebook group and in person, rescuers meet to decide who will bid on which dogs, so they do not bid against one another. But Dimon, the Akita rescuer, says the longtimers do not always recognize the newcomers — who, upon seeing auctions for the first time, are so eager to “save” every dog that they will pay just about anything. Numerous longtime rescue bidders say breeders are lying in wait for those novices, to bid them up and take every dollar of donated money they have.

Melissa McClellan of New York City-based Posh Pets Rescue, said she attended her first auction at Southwest in January and paid $1,700 for a male Maltese. The seller had listed the 11-year-old dog as “well proven, still using,” and McLellan kept raising the bid because she thought she was competing with a breeder for the dog.

What McLellan did not know was that her bidding blew right past that of at least one longtime rescuer, Laverne Clark of Powersite, Mo., who was there for the same dog.

“I could’ve gotten that dog for $100,” Clark says. “They paid $1,700.”

A husky checks on her puppies at Sugarfork.

Bans on puppies for retail sale

As of January, the Humane Society of the United States said, 250 municipalities had enacted retail pet-sale bans, which are often called “puppy mill bans” in the news media. The laws require pet stores to obtain puppies only from shelters and nonprofit organizations. Activists and lawmakers tell the public that the laws help homeless dogs and choke off income to the kinds of breeders who sell dogs and puppies at auctions.

Los Angeles enacted a ban in 2012, and California followed in October by enacting the first statewide version in the United States. Activists say it is a model for the rest of the nation to follow. Similar statewide bans have since been introduced in nine states.

But despite the efforts, commercially bred dogs have continued going to consumers in places with the municipal bans, including Los Angeles, by way of nonprofit groups and the auctions. The Post identified four California-based rescue groups tied to auction purchases, and two more that operate in the state.

An invoice shows that on April 8, 2017, Kristin Cramer — founder of the nonprofit For Pete Sake Foundation in Sherman Oaks, Calif. — placed a successful phone bid with Southwest for nearly $17,200 to buy a dozen English and French bulldogs. Within a week, a fundraising drive featuring Cramer’s dogs appeared on the Facebook page of Los Angeles-based Road Dogs & Rescue, telling donors: “The goal was to pay as little as possible so as not to line their pockets, but to save some lives and have these dogs put real faces to the horrible industry.”

The fundraising announcement did not reveal the per-dog price, which an invoice shows ranged from $675 to $2,500.

One auction seller who got some of that rescue cash was Gary Phillips of Adair, Okla., a district president with Northeast Oklahoma Pet Professionals. He is on the ASPCA’s “No Pet Store Puppies” warning website.

Phillips said Cramer paid him more than he could have made selling the same dog through a pet store. Documents show that she paid $1,750 for his 19-month-old English bulldog, which was too old for pet-store consumers and had allergies that diminished her breeding prospects.

Cramer said her single venture into buying at auction would be her last. The founder of Road Dogs & Rescue, while happy with the outcome for the dogs, called the experience “a painful lesson,” adding, “It’s too easy for rescues to be ruled by wanting to save a life at any cost.”

Phillips said that he was surprised and pleased with the price the rescuer paid, and that at least one colleague had taken note — not of the laws being enacted to try to shut down commercial breeders, but instead of where their new cash flow was emerging.

Sydney Noah, a breeder at Sugarfork, holds days-old Shih Tzu puppies. Notes with expressions of love and protest adorn a wall at National Mill. Sugarfork owner Abigail Anderson inside one of the kennel buildings.

“A breeder friend of mine said she’s thinking about saving her puppies until they get about a year old and take them to the auction,” Phillips said. “The rescue people will pay more than the pet-store brokers.”

Nationwide advocacy groups that support the pet-store bans include Bailing Out Benji, an Iowa-based nonprofit that promotes pet-store protests. Its website home page urges readers to watch a 2015 documentary that “educates about the puppy mill industry and the money that keeps it thriving.”

Terra Henggeler is the Nebraska team leader and a volunteer for Bailing Out Benji, according to recent news reports. A 2017 story quoted her at a pet-store protest in Omaha telling the media that she and other rescuers had to “fight for those dogs” inside because the shop bought puppies from “less than desirable breeders.”

Less than a month before and again after that protest, documents show, Henggeler bought dogs at Southwest, paying as much as $1,500 per dog; they were among 24 dogs that she has spent $24,255 to purchase at auction since 2016, some as young as 5 months old.

Henggeler and Bailing Out Benji did not respond to requests for comment.

Bailing Out Benji issued a statement following this article’s publication that its connection to auctions is “nonexistent” and that its volunteer “went on behalf of other rescues in the Midwest to purchase retired breeding dogs at auction.” The group also said in an email to The Post that buying dogs at auction “goes against how we operate at Bailing Out Benji.” Henggeler is also a member of the Board of Directors for Pug Partners of Nebraska, which did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.

Bob Hughes, Southwest’s owner, says that what goes on at the auctions shows that nobody has the moral high ground in America’s puppy wars.

“In their minds, the rescuers think they’re better,” he says. “The industry is all alike. We’re all supplying puppies and dogs to the general public in some form or fashion.”

A poodle seeking a view leaps inside its enclosure at Sugarfork.

About this story

This investigation is based on hundreds of documents provided by an industry insider and additional open-records documents from numerous states, and more than 60 in-person, phone and email interviews with rescuers, breeders, animal advocates and auctioneers. It is the first time that anyone has ever documented—in dollars and cents—the multimillion-dollar river of cash that is flowing from rescue nonprofits, shelters and dog-advocacy groups through auctions into the pockets of dog breeders.

Kim Kavin is a member of The Washington Post Freelance Network. She is also the author of “The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores and Rescuers” (Pegasus Books, 2016), a book of investigative journalism.

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newenglandpups · 7 years ago

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My last obedience class under my current employer also happens to be the most challenging class I've ever had. All five dogs are breeds that are not very biddable and they're all owned by people who got them because they're "fashionable." Two huskies, a French bulldog/Boston terrier cross, an Akita, and a beagle. Okay granted the beagle isn't like a "fashionable" breed but they got the dog because their daughter (who is 12 btw) showed them a picture of a beagle puppy online and they thought they were cute so they went and found the first BYB beagle they could and got one. They didn't even have any toys when they brought the puppy home.

I don't even want to get into the rest of the people. One of the husky owners is actually trying really hard. They adopted the husky about six months ago and he's about two years old and I highly doubt his previous owners did anything with him. It's very difficult to get him motivated but we're making more progress with toys and games finally.

But it's just so frustrating that these people did zero research, got a dog they were not prepared for, and are now shocked to hear the dog won't just listen for no reason and they actually have to work at it. Like.... get one of those stupid little toys from the 90's if you want a robot dog. Seriously.

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sid-the-super-tramp · 5 years ago

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Top 15 dog breeds - Most popular dog breeds in the U.S

Check out the American Kennel Club's full list of most popular dog breeds in the united states (USA). Some of the topmost spots are of no surprise as they are been occupied by the same breeds for years. But few middle-order spots are quite surprising this year. Check whether Beagles hold in the top 5 positions or someone knocked them down. Do the family-friendly, intelligent Labrador holds its top spot? Also find out the positions of most King Charles Spaniel and French bulldog which surprisingly jumped several positions up, to make to the top 10 most popular dog breeds in America. Well, the rankings are based on registration numbers for the year 2017. Well, let’s find out if your favorite made it to the top 15 lists. I would also brief why these breeds made it top, what people for looking in breeds that made to so many registrations.

There are certain characteristics of each breed, which is liked by dog lovers to keep them around. Choosing the right dog breed for your lifestyle or your family can be a challenge, so let’s make it smile. Scroll down for more information on the most popular breed.

15 . Pembroke Welsh Corgis

Temperament: Affectionate, Smart, Alert these dogs bred to herd cattle.small but sturdy, short-legged herders.bright, sensitive dog who enjoys playing with his human family and responds well to training. lifespan: 12 – 14 years Potential health problems Intervertebral Disc DiseaseHip DysplasiDegenerative Myelopathy

14 . Great Danes

Temperament: Friendly, Patient, Dependable The AKC calls this breed “the Apollo of dogspowerful giants are the picture of elegance and balance.courageous, never timid; always friendly and dependable.Patient with kidsMakes friends easily. lifespan: 8 – 10 years Potential health problems Dilated cardiomyopathyBloat

13 . Dachshunds

Temperament: Friendly, Curious, Spunky Smart and vigilant, with a big-dog bark, they make fine watchdogs.they can be brave to the point of rashness, and a bit stubborn. lifespan: 12 – 16 years Potential health problems Intervertebral Disk DiseaseHypothyroidismEye Issues

12 . Siberian Huskies

Temperament: Loyal, Outgoing, Mischievous Most energetic dog, which requires a lot of exercise and family time.Better suited for cold temperature regions.Huskies are naturally clean, with little doggy odor. lifespan: 12 – 15 years Potential health problems Hip DysplasiaEye DefectsUveodermatologic Syndrome

11 . Boxers

Temperament: Bright, Fun-Loving, Active Developed to serve as a guard, working, and companion dog.Great dog with children due to their patience and protective nature.They are playful and loving, while still being agile and protective of home and family. lifespan: 10 – 12 years Potential health problems Boxer CardiomyopathyAortic/sub aortic StenosisDegenerative Myelopathy

10 . Pointers (German Shorthaired)

Temperament: Friendly, Smart, Willing to Please These dogs are known for being versatile hunters and gun dogs.known for power, speed, agility, and endurance,Always ready to spend time outdoors like running, swimming or anything that will burn their energy. lifespan: 12 – 14 years Potential health problems Hip DysplasiaCancereye diseases

9 . Yorkshire Terriers

Temperament: Affectionate, Sprightly, Tomboyish small size easy to carry and playfulfavorite among urbanites - easy to take care and portable weight.Have hair and not fur, making them hypoallergenic — good for people with allergies. lifespan: 13 – 16 years Potential health problems Luxating patellaLegg-Perthes DiseaseHypoglycemia

8 . Rottweiler

Temperament: Loyal, Loving, Confident Guardian They have an intimidating look.Though early training and socialization make him less aggressive, always good to treat as a guard dogThey make great guard dogs because of their bulky and strong build. lifespan: 8 – 10 years Potential health problems Sub-Aortic StenosisEye IssuesHip Dysplasia

7 . Poodles

Temperament: Active, Proud, Very Smart Very active dogs which requires exercise every day.Infrequent sheddingextremely intelligent and easily trained. lifespan: 12 – 15 years Potential health problems Hip DysplasiaEpilepsyProgressive Retinal Atrophy

6 . Beagles

Temperament: Friendly, Curious, Merry Excellent hunting dog and loyal companionThe ability and desire to track down smells, making them excellent working dogs.Beagles are loving and lovable, happy, and companionable—all qualities that make them excellent family dogs. lifespan: 12 – 15 years Potential health problems EpilepsyHypothyroidismCherry Eye

5 . Bulldogs

Temperament: Friendly, Courageous, Calm Kind but courageous, friendly but dignified. Bulldogs were looking lot different initially. Due to selective breeding, to get the 'snub' nose look they look different now. Also now people buy them for their looks, not for any of their benefit. Bulldogs will end up a very expensive dog for maintenance. Due to their allergies, skin issues and numerous breathing issues, also they can't give birth naturally must have C-sections. lifespan: 8 – 10 years Potential health problems cardiac and respiratory diseaship dysplasiacherry eye

4 . French Bulldogs

Temperament: Adaptable, Playful, Smart French bulldogs are affectionate and playful.a little bit stubborn in nature, so you’ll need to exercise some patience when training.One among top 5 positions is only due to the small size and its looks. lifespan: 10 – 12 years Potential health problems brachycephalic syndrome or difficulty breathingback problems including ruptured or herniated discs

3 . Retrievers (Golden)

Temperament: Friendly, Intelligent, Devoted

Great beauty, golden coat and trustworthy.Friendly, energetic, easily trainable and have a great personality.Loves outdoor activities anything their human partner is interested in. lifespan: 10 – 12 years Potential health problems hypothyroidismeye disorderselbow dysplasiasub-aortic stenosis

2 . German Shepherd Dogs

Temperament: Confident, Courageous, Smart More popular in police, military and security for their high discipline.willingness to put their life on the line in defense of loved ones. lifespan: 9 – 13 years Potential health problems Hip DysplasiaElbow DysplasiaPerianal FistulaMegaesophagusOsteoarthritiDegenerative Myelopathy

1 . Retrievers (Labrador)

Temperament: Friendly, Active, Outgoing Always a good family dog.Easily socialized, energetic, love for people and intelligent.the enthusiastic athlete that requires lots of exercises to keep physically and mentally fit. lifespan: 10 – 14 years Potential health problems Hip dysplasiaelbow dysplasialuxating patellaBloat

Health Concerns explained

Dogs do usually have pretty good health. Moreover, their human companion will never let his loved ones to get sick. But some breeds are prone to health disorders. Some due to genetics and some catch up from an environment. So let's keep them at bay. Let’s ask questions to your breeder before making your final choice. Let me explain what these diseases or disorders actually mean, knowledge is wealth, keep reading. Intervertebral Disc Disease Intervertebral disc disease is when the discs between the vertebrae bulge or herniate into the spinal cord space. Usually have trouble walking, refuses to jump, is incontinent, won’t eat, or appears anxious. Breed: Corgis, Dachshunds Hip Dysplasia An abnormal formation of the hip socket that, in its more severe form, can eventually cause crippling lameness and painful arthritis of the joints. It is a genetic (polygenic) trait that is affected by environmental factors. Breed: Corgis, Dane, Siberian Huskies, Pointers (German Shorthaired), Rottweilers Degenerative Myelopathy Disease related to the spinal cord in older dogs which eventual paralysis in the hind limbs. Breed: Corgis, Boxer Dilated cardiomyopathy Dilated cardiomyopathy is a degenerative heart muscle condition that gradually weakens the heart’s ability to pump blood effectively. It is usually associated with an enlargement of the left ventricle. Breed: Dane Bloat Bloat is a gastric dilation of the stomach caused by an abnormal accumulation of gas or liquid. Breed: Dane Hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism is a clinical condition resulting from a lowered production and release of T4 and T3 hormones by the thyroid gland. Breed: Doberman pinschers, Beagles, Irish setters, golden retrievers, great Danes, old English sheepdogs, dachshunds, miniature schnauzers, boxers, poodles, and cocker spaniels, Poodles Eye Issues/ Eye Defects Eye issues including cataracts, glaucoma, corneal dystrophy, tear duct anomalies, and progressive retinal atrophy Bree: Dachshunds, Siberian Huskies, Rottweilers, Poodles Uveodermatologic Syndrome Dog's immune system produces chemicals called antibodies to protect its body against harmful substances and organisms such as viruses, bacteria, etc. An autoimmune disorder is a condition in which the immune system cannot tell the difference between harmful antigens and its own healthy body tissues, leading it to destroy the healthy body tissue. Inflammation of the interior of the eye and Loss of skin pigmentation in the nose, lips, eyelids, footpads. Breed: Akitas, Samoyeds, Siberian Huskies Boxer cardiomyopathy The development of ventricular tachyarrhythmias, resulting in syncope and sudden cardiac death. Breed: Boxer Aortic/Subaortic Stenosis Subaortic stenosis is a narrowing (stenosis) of the area underneath, the aortic valve, that causes some degree of obstruction or blockage of the blood flow through the heart. Breed: Boxer, Rottweilers Luxating patella Luxation of the patella is movement or dislocation of the kneecap. Breed: Yorkshire Terriers Hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia is a fast drop in blood sugar levels. Breed: Yorkshire Terriers Legg-Perthes Disease The dog’s hip area begins to receive inadequate circulation of blood, the bone in the dog’s femur weakens and begins to collapse; the cartilage surrounding this can become cracked and malformed. Breed: Yorkshire Terriers Epilepsy Epilepsy, the most common cause of seizures in the dog. Breed: Poodles, Beagles Cherry Eye Prolapsed gland of the eyelid refers to a pink mass protruding from the animal's eyelid; it is also called a "cherry eye." Breed: Cocker Spaniels, Bulldogs, Beagles, Bloodhounds, Lhasa Apsos, and Shih Tzus. Read the full article

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