If you browse Rhodesian Ridgeback breeders websites (and probably any dog breeding website) you will find that breeders state how they breed to improve the standard of the breed.  They breed for quality not quantity.

I use to look at these statements and be quite impressed but now….. well now I think these are just words.  It doesn’t mean that the breeders actually do that.  When you think about it, of course they are going to make statements like that, they aren’t going to come out and say that they breed to make money or anything like that are they?

If a breeder knows that one of their dogs has or possibly has a genetic problem, should they disclose this problem to both potential puppy buyers, or to other breeders that might use their dog as a stud dog for breeding.

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