How can anyone believe that one man can cure CCAC?
Everyday there are hundreds of puppies born for one reason...PROFIT
This county is loaded with "puppy mills" (not like the ones you may read about in the national news with hundreds of dogs) and "back-yard breeders". They own 5, 10 or 20 dogs and care less if the dog meets the breed standard. They care less if the dog is free of genetic abnormalities, heck they don't even understand genetics. They care less if the mama dog is teaching her puppies aggressive behavior.
They care about the money they can make, tax free at that. They feed the dogs, go off to work or where ever for hours at a time, and expect the mama dog teach the puppies. After all that's how it's done in nature.
This is time of year that I see a lot of those "Christmas Puppies" purchased from both local and national pet shops. These "teen-aged" dogs are always poor quality pure-breeds or "designer breeds" like the Lab-a-Doodle (most with C.K.C papers, some with A.K.C papers). BTW C.K.C has no breed standard, if one wants to register a Pit bull/Chihuahua mix and call it a Bullhuahua a new breed is born (tell me that's not every animal control officers nightmare...a Pit bull with a Chihuahua's attitude!). These unruly "teenagers" are rarely spayed or neutered.
Why would someone spend three, four, five, six or seven hundred dollars on a puppy to have it spayed or neutered when in 9 months or so a female dog can have a litter and make that hundred dollar investment turn into thousands of dollars?
Most of these dogs are unadoptable...Yes folks, this is a cruel world. You can send your unruly teenage child to "Dr. Phil" and if your lucky this "part of growing up" will pass (but as we all know, that doesn't happen often, most people ignore the behavior and use the excuse that it's part of growing up).
What makes these dogs unadoptable you ask...What civil minded person is going to bring a 9 month old German Shepherd, Rottweiler (no they are not Rockwilders), Pit Bull, or Labrador into their homes with their children. Some (a rarity) of these dogs have been properly trained and socialized, but turned out to be more than their novice owners could handle. Kinda like buying a Mustang GTO with a 500 horsepower engine for the high school graduate. Most have had absolutely no training (unless you consider beating an animal into submission training) or socialization (is that a word?).
Recently I visited a local pet shop that sells puppies. There were 4 or 5 puppies contained in one make shift pen. One of the puppies was downright vicious. Growling, snarling and biting one of the submissive pups. The store owner (not an employee) just ignored this behavior. After about 3 minutes of this I spoke up. The store owner acted like I had three heads. When I suggested that the store owner take the aggressive (and trust me this pup was easily identified) pup out and separate it, I think I grew 3 more heads. The store owner's response was "some people want aggressive pups". I was astonished to hear that response. Naturally, I smarted off and replied, yeah until the pup rips someones nose off their face. Yes the store owner knew who/what I am. No you cannot fix stupid.
If this store owner had anything on their minds others than PROFIT, they would have handed me the pup. Don't tell me the store owner cared if this pup was euthanized now, or a year from now after seriously hurting someone. This store owner was more concerned with the $200 they paid for the pup and the $300 or $400 profit.
People make honest mistakes everyday. Puppy mill owners, back-yard breeders and pet shops make money...Lots of it!!! More money than what the taxpayers are willing to part with.