KellyCTargaryen

Could you give some examples of specific insights/breakthroughs a person has experienced during your games? I’m catching up on your other posts currently.

There’s an issue in corgis currently where irresponsible breeders mix in Aussie or cardigan to get blue Merle, for money of course. Breeding back to Pems for a few generations means they can come back on tests like this as 100% Pembroke, and use it as proof their blue Merle Pems are purebred. How does your test account for this?

I literally just today emailed to try and find an update to this report: https://www.aspca.org/sites/default/files/oig_audit_33002-4-sf.pdf

I’m going to go read your links now, but I think the obvious question is, what can we do? Agricultural lobby protects commercial dog/cat breeders because to regulate those animals would open the door to regulating the treatment of cows/pigs/chickens/etc. AKC quietly lobbies against regulation because they are taking in a LOT of money from registering mill puppies. States that outlaw the sale of puppies in pet stores except for rescues haven’t solved puppy mills either, as mills can just make a 3rd party shell “rescue”. And I’ve seen pet store owners lobby local reps to follow similar laws, along with increasing restrictions on hobby breeders (making it so, with the above type of law, they continue business as usual but elbow out their competition, responsible breeders). People find puppies after one google search and buy directly from the mills. Even responsible breeders are starting to think we should defend commercial breeding facilities, because animal rights advocates see all breeders as evil anyway, we should “protect our own” before their rights (as preservation breeders) are the ones they go after next

I so wish this thread had more activity for you, I wonder if you could cross post to other animal/advocacy subreddits.