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NOBODY who has over 50 dogs is anything but a puppy mill (or a "collector", but they don't usually pretend to be dog breeders). That is a factory farm, not an ethical dog breeder. I don't need to see it to know that even if these dogs are kept in spotless conditions, they are no more than livestock used to produce more livestock for money, these are not pets, they are not working dogs and they are not show dogs, they are puppy machines. It is shameful to treat an animal as people-oriented as a dog like this, and there is simply no ethically valid excuse for farming dogs as if they were sheep or cattle or CORN, without health tests, without proven conformation and ability, without attention to making the best crosses through pedigree research, without any qualification other than working gonads. This is sickening, and the fact that people try to defend it out of ignorance and misplaced defensiveness is even more sickening.

I know ethical breeders who spend YEARS planning a single litter. If this person actually understood the breed and knew ANYTHING about ethical dog breeding, she wouldn't be owning 50 dogs and churning out puppies like a factory assembly line, she'd own a few dogs, show and work them extensively, health test all her breeding stock (not "OFA pedigree" but THIS DOG'S OFA#) and happily share the results with prospective owners, breed with specific goals (OTHER than making money off puppies), plan litters carefully and breed to dogs outside her own backyard and offer a contract that was actually meaningful. This person does none of these things, and additionally spouts bizarre theories about things like why dogs have white on them, therefore she is not an ethical dog breeder, she is not a knowledgeable breed fancier, she is a BYB/puppy miller.