settle for less dog breeding

I love my dog. His name is Norm for normal. He's a mix and a rescue from a local shelter. Maybe he's always happy because he knows how lucky he is to have gotten to a no kill shelter and have found a family. Millions of other dogs aren't so lucky.

If dogs weren't breed and sold, more dogs would be adopted rather than euthanized. Plus, imagine if all the money spent on buying pure breed dogs was donated to animal shelters? This is in addition to all the suffering that would be eliminated if dog breeding stopped.

Inbreeding causes painful and life-threatening genetic defects in “purebred” dogs and cats, including crippling hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, heart defects, skin problems, and epilepsy. Distorting animals for specific physical features also causes severe health problems.

Dogs are best friends. A best friend loves you unconditionally. No matter how you look a best friend loves you, so shouldn't you love them the same way?