Rant about national breed clubs

In doing some window shopping via national breed clubs I'm finding more and
more of them are demanding you send money to them in order to find out who
their member breeders are. IMO that's stepping way over the line and I
think its unethical.

I can be heard to say at least once a year that there's a huge problem in
the accessibility of ethical breeders. They aren't growing on trees and
they don't advertise. For all the many individuals and families who set out
to purchase a companion animal each year these ethical breeders remain
largely hidden or just flat-out unheard of.

Educated dog people are forever telling people they should find an ethical
breeder. There are people on these lists whose favorite comeback to any
puppy-related question is "what does your breeder have to say?"

I understand the point of view of those pushing ethical breedres, breed
clubs, breed events, etc. but I also understand the Doe family's desire to
obtain a dog and be able to find information on that process, to include
where and from whom, without too much hassle.

How exactly does holding breeder member names hostage for cash help anyone
but the club pad its pockets? It doesn't put names or websites out there
for people to contrast & compare, get contact info, have the option to do
research, etc. It doesn't promote public education or better accessibility
to "quality" dogs. Its nothing more than elitist and frankly it pisses me
off.

I think all of you who love to get snarky with people about who they bought
their pet from should begin thinking about a possible accessibility issue on
the part of gaining good information and contacts and that not all of us in
this world are within decent driving distance to dog shows and specialties
where we can meet breeders of breeds we like.

The internet may not be considered the best research tool for dog shopping
but I, for one at least, think its great and that more breeders should
create informational websites even if they choose not to advertise litters.

I know my rant started off, and is about this breeder name hostage situation
but some people's attitudes towards others on these ngs really should take
this kind of crap into account. As for the "hostage" reference that's what
I consider this *unless* its the breeders choosing to have the club operate
in this way. If that's the case then IMO they're a bunch of elitist,
uncaring & lazy people who don't want their names out there because they
might have to be bothered by people who aren't deadly serious about throwing
down cash yet.

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Tara


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