18/09/2026
Someone called me a puppy farmer for how many dogs we own,
Funny saying that when we haven’t even had a litter of pups with any of the dogs we own,
And our dogs get health tested
And our dogs get vet care
And our dogs get well looked after
And our dogs are a certain age before they breed due to caring about their development
And our dogs don’t get mass produced of puppies for money 👏
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THE PEOPLE vs. RESPONSIBLE BREEDERS
Now appearing in the Court of Facebook, where feelings are evidence, memes are peer-reviewed research, and whoever shouts “ADOPT, DON’T SHOP!” the loudest automatically becomes an expert in genetics.
Barrister: State your occupation.
Breeder: Preservation breeder.
Barrister: So—you breed puppies for money?
Breeder: Absolutely. I recently spent £6,000 producing £10,000 worth of puppies. I’ll be ordering my yacht from Argos as soon as I’ve finished scrubbing puppy diarrhoea off the utility-room wall.
Barrister: Shelters and rescues are overflowing because people like you keep producing dogs!
Breeder: Of course. My health-tested puppies, sold with lifetime support and a contract requiring them to come back to me if their owners can no longer keep them, personally drove themselves to every rescue centre in Britain.
Meanwhile, Dave from down the road’s second “accidental” litter of nine is advertised on Facebook Marketplace alongside a second-hand sofa and a set of alloy wheels.
But apparently he's just an innocent victim of “I didn’t know that would happen”.
Barrister: Everyone should stop shopping and adopt mutts!
Breeder: Brilliant. Let's stop deliberately breeding healthy dogs to written standards and allow genetics to operate like a Bank Holiday weekend in Blackpool.
Barrister: Purebred dogs aren't necessary.
Breeder: Neither is Wi-Fi, but let me know how you feel about that when Sky goes down during the football.
Barrister: Breed standards are just vanity.
Breeder: Yes, those silly little details such as structure, sound movement, predictable size, stable temperament and the ability to perform the job the breed was developed to do.
Completely pointless… until your advertised “small, calm family dog” turns out to be 40 kilos of adolescent chaos with the prey drive of a fox and the energy of a Labrador that's just discovered a tennis ball.
Barrister: Mixed-breed dogs make wonderful pets!
Breeder: They absolutely can. Nobody said otherwise.
But if every responsible breeder packed it in tomorrow, where exactly do you think future generations of dogs are going to come from?
Eventually every dog will be a brown mystery called Dave.
Dave's DNA test will come back:
6% Chihuahua
14% Husky
20% livestock guardian
9% terrier
11% spaniel
30% “something involving a sheep”
And 10% “close the gate and pray.”
Barrister: If everyone adopted, eventually rescue centres would be empty.
Breeder: Wonderful!
And after responsible breeders have disappeared, where will future dogs come from?
Barrister: Rescue centres.
Breeder: And where will rescue centres get them?
Barrister: From people who breed dogs.
Breeder: So your master plan requires people to continue producing dogs irresponsibly so that there will always be dogs for rescue, while simultaneously attacking people who breed responsibly?
Barrister: That's not what I said.
Breeder: It's rather remarkably close to what you said. You just wrapped it in a slogan, added a sad photograph and hoped nobody would apply basic arithmetic.
Barrister: Responsible breeders should simply stop.
Breeder: Right then.
No more carefully preserved Labradors.
No more Poodles.
No more German Shepherds.
No more Border Collies.
No more Chinese Cresteds.
No more Dachshunds.
No more of the hundreds of breeds developed over generations for particular purposes, temperaments, working abilities and characteristics.
Barrister: We'll still have dogs.
Breeder: Certainly.
We'll have Dave.
Part hound, part cattle dog, part sofa assassin and entirely capable of clearing a six-foot fence before you've finished your first cup of tea.
Barrister: So you hate rescue dogs?
Breeder: No.
That tired accusation is what people reach for when their argument has collapsed faster than a cheap garden chair at a village fête.
Rescue a dog.
Buy from a responsible breeder.
Do both.
Support responsible rescue.
Support responsible breeding.
Just stop pretending that making one good choice requires publicly flogging everyone who made a different responsible choice.
Barrister: I'm offended.
Breeder: Being offended isn't the same as being correct.
It simply means the truth arrived without a trigger warning and a cup of tea.
⚖️ CASE DISMISSED.
Reason: The prosecution presented one slogan, three memes, absolutely no understanding of genetics, and a moral halo tilted so far sideways it nearly knocked over the court usher.
Adopt responsibly. Buy responsibly. Breed responsibly. Commit for life.
And please stop acting as though purebred dogs grow naturally behind rescue centres and are harvested every spring by magical rehoming fairies. 🧚🏼
