Do dog breeders provide the healthiest dogs?
Dog breeders are a breed unto their own. They are hit and miss, just like anything else in life. Some of them really take great care. An example would be the woman who was the founder of Labradoodles in Australia. She goes to the extent of playing the sound of aeroplanes to the dogs because she knows that she's going to be shipping these puppies overseas. She teaches them steps to be in a collar and a leash. She handles them, she holds them, she cuddles them, she gets them to understand what it's like to be living with humans; other dog breeders don't. With them, some of the dogs are outside. They're living in kennels; they're kept like an animal. These dogs don't have a lot of human contact. So, you have to interview the dog breeder, and the dog breeder will also interview you. A really, really good dog breeder will want to do an in-depth interview with you just as much as you want to interview them.