Persuasive Essay On German Shepherds

When getting a new dog most people will first resort to buying because it is easy to walk in a store and get one right then and there. What people do not realize is that these stores get their dogs from a very cruel place. They are called puppy mills. “Puppy mills are commercial breeding facilities that mass-produce dogs (and cats in cat mills) for sale through pet stores, or directly to consumers through classified ads or the Internet,” (PAWS, 2017).

With already set regulations on puppy mills, people say there is no reason to have any additions on the rules. There is a kennel license, which restricts how many dogs someone can have depending on how much square footage of land he or she owns. This regulates the amount of dogs that can be held for breeding and to keep the area clean and safe enough for all the dogs involved. People are required to go through a moderately long process to achieve their license, to ensure that these dogs will be okay. Puppy mills are also known for keeping pure breed numbers up, such as beloved German shepherds, poodles, Welsh Pembroke corgis, and Labradors. Having mixed breeds can be healthier of course but as Sofia Jeppsson had said in her article Purebred Dogs and Canine Wellbeing, “However, in the long run such a strategy would severely deplete the

Silver labs were a combination of a Labrador Retriever and a Weimaraner as people started breeding them. They always have the diluted D gene turned on (dd). This combo would produce a dog that would essentially look like a lab and if bred to a chocolate lab, then the results would look and most likely act like a lab. Two parents with the DD gene would only give a d gene and the puppies would all have the DD gene and would therefore come out with a silver coat color. http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/silverlabs.html

Pit bulls are a type of dog, the breeds commonly referred to as pit bulls are: American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, and Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

The deciding factor is not breed, it is ownership. Irresponsible ownership in the form of poor care, neglect, etc. results in a potentially dangerous dog. Irresponsible owners will just get a dog that is not banned

During the decade that I bred, raised, and placed English Bulldogs into their new forever homes, I ran into many issues both with the dogs and the people I encountered along the way. Although I researched the breed thoroughly prior to the purchase of my own English Bulldogs, I still managed encounter health and temperament issues of the dogs, as well as the common greedily natured people wanting to breed them to make a quick buck. There are, however many wonderful owners of English Bulldogs that love their dogs immensely; often treating them as they would a child and spoiling them rotten. These types of people were the very reason I began to raise English Bulldogs. Since I too had experienced the great love of this breed, I decided to

The supermarkets, local grocery stores or dollar stores! True, you'll only find food that won't give your puppy what he/she needs to develop and gain proper nutrition. You don't want to give your puppy foods with cheap ingredients, artificial additives and preservatives, and other fillers or junk foods, right? So, here's a quick over view of what and where to find puppy food suitable for your puppy's taste buds and nutrition.

Shouldn’t all animals have the right to live? Dogs could receive and give happiness if they were not put down. Animals do not really have a chance to actually live life.Many places simply do not have enough room for all of the animals, so they resort to euthanasia to control the population. There are many dogs and cats that are euthanized only because they take up room.

The German Shepard is noted in the Bible as the guardian of the flock. This dog doesn't herd as much anymore, but it does herd flocks in France, Italy, and Germany. It existed in Germany as far back as 7th century AD and this dog is constantly on guard. Sometimes the dog is too much on guard and will attack ferociously. The German Shepard is working all the time and will assimilate and retain training. They are the protector of the herd or flock.

Berger Picard or Picardy Shepherd is a French origin breed of dog that nearly came to extinction during the World War I and World War II. It is still a rare breed of dog. If you want to own this breed, be ready to shell out approximately $2,300. This shaggy haired breed of dog is very alert, energetic, loyal and people oriented. They make a great family pet, if socialized and trained properly during the early years. Berger Picard’s weighs just 60-70 pounds on an average and have the life expectancy of 15- 16 years.

Every animal has their own level of intelligence, take a rat for example, they are extremely intelligent and are capable of learning quickly. All throughout this paper, I will talk about what tools to use and how to train dogs, cats ferrets, rats, and even Monkeys. Most animals that we are able to have as a pet are trainable but not all.

If you are looking for a new family member but you have to have a German Shepard that is the only dog you have ever wanted the ASPCA is there to help so you don’t have to go to purchase a dog through a puppy mill. All you have to do is go to the ASPCA website and go to adopt a pet and type in the breed you would like and it comes up with hundreds of dogs of all different ages of that breed. Transition:

For being man’s supposed best friend, humans too often make choices to benefit themselves instead of dogs. People decide what traits make a dog cute and disregard what traits make them healthy. Dog breeding is a harmful practice for dogs both biologically and culturally due to superficial standards. These dogs are bred to be cute, but that cuteness can inadvertently carry a gene that can lead to disease, or even the cuteness itself could be debilitating, such as with the poster pug’s flat face makes breathing significantly more difficult. Dogs are living, breathing creatures and the standards set for their reproduction should factor their well-being into the standard of the dog.

Going into depth of the most popular and common of the police dogs the “the German shepherd only came into being a little over 100 years ago. A German shepherd enthusiast,

The origins of the breed came from various sheep dogs found in Germany during the last century. In the second half of the 19th century, dog breed fanciers began to fix the type of sheep dog found in Germany that would eventually form the basis of the modern