[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Hunte situation
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:44:10 -0500
It occurs to me.... perhaps they see the "bigger picture"....
Hunte Corporation is a broker, as I keep saying. They do not breed
puppies. They take puppies from the breeders
who work with them, screen the puppies for any health problems, treat them
if possible, socialize them, and then
ship them to market. It's a very clean, well-run, very well-staffed
operation. As I also keep saying and others do too, if Hunte weren't
shipping a good product, he'd have been out of business long ago, instead
of having grown his business.
Moreover, if Hunte weren't offering their breeders a good price for their
puppies, they wouldn't have any breeders working with them. On the
contrary, not only do they pay very decently for puppies, but they offer
their breeders a lot of support. Hunte's objective is not just to
mass-produce puppies but to deliver a good product.
You say it's hard work raising puppies. Then you say the brokers make tons
of money for doing nothing but providing a clean building, veterinary
care, and staff to take care of the puppies. Uh, the maintenance of clean
kennels, the veterinary bills, and the staff doesn't cost nothing. The
overhead is enormous. Any labor-intensive
work--and I can hardly think of anything more labor-intensive than raising
animals--is very high overhead. The biggest cost is labor itself.
Sure, when everything goes right, it's fun, it's rewarding. Which is why
Mr. Hunte likes his work, as do most people who raise animals whether as a
hobby or commercially. People who like their work tend to do well at it.
Like Mr. Hunte.
You think the CB's don't care if puppies are sick and defective and have to
be PTS or they don't care if they have to PTS an adult dog? You're
making assumptions about something you don't know. For most CB's, a bitch
about to whelp is as much a source of anxiety and nervousness and pleasure
when it all goes well as it is for any hobby breeder. They don't want to
lose their animals any more than you or I do, except for the CB, it's loss
of income, as well as an emotional jolt.
As for brokers, most CB's sell directly to the pet shops. AFAIK, Hunte
Corporation is very unusual in that it
brokers, but doesn't breed puppies. It might even be unique.
The obvious reason Hunte and all CB's would not want PAWS like legislation
is just what I said already. If PAWS (don't think it won't be back!) is
enacted and mini-PAWS follow on the state level, as seems inevitable, the
first breeders to hit the dust will be the private breeders. The CB's will
be left standing, but not indefinitely. They will be the next targets of
all AR-driven breeding limitation laws. As it is, much of the fancy
supported PAWS, because it already believes the CB's should go out of
business tomorrow, that only me and my three best friends should be allowed
to breed AND to own good pets. (Everyone else, all us great unwashed, can
make do with rescues.)
The CB's, politically aware and organized, can see the future, and a future
in which they can't stay in business doesn't
make them any happier than it makes any of us. Armageddon might come later
for them than for us private breeders, but it will come eventually. So
they don't want PAWS, either.
In fact, they don't want any ARistas messing around in their perfectly
legal, already highly regulated businesses.
Mr. Hunte could help us, if he wanted to. The CB's could help us, if we
weren't so snobby about them. That's my only shtick. It isn't a question
of whom I admire or not, it's survival here, and I'd like to think the next
time I want to
breed, if ever, or just get a nice puppy from a good breeder, that those
possibilities will still exist.
And yes I recall the accident with the semi truck.... it was tragic to be
sure. So was the loss of 18+ dogs in a house fire of a professional handler
in CA some years back. You think accidents don't happen to the "good
guys"??
Okay... flame away....
Ginger Cleary - Rome, GA www.rihadin.com <http://www.rihadin.com>
"Laws against something 'that other guy' does will eventually get US because
we are all someone's 'other guy.' " Walt Hutchens,2007
-----Original Message-----
In a message dated 1/28/2007 11:57:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
I agree with this statement, but it may not have been possible legally. I
don't think our Board, any of them supports or condones what this man does
for
a living. But what if "we" did deny his membership, he sued (he is worth
millions) and we got into a protracted legal battle with him....our little
club
that fights tooth and nail for every entry, every penny....we spend HUGE
money to fight his membership...and in the end, he gets in anyway, because
we
simple have NO BASIS to keep him out. Our club would be worse off, and he
would win anyway, at our expense. Then what?
Kathy
_Victory German Shepherds_
(http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com/index.htm)
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