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Originally Posted by bigdoglover
According to a 2005 article in the HSUS magazine All Animals, 75% of the shelter population is comprised of mongrels. Now I'm no math wizard, but I can extrapolate that only 25% must therefore be purebred animals.
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interesting. not sure how much i believe the HSUS statistics. i wonder where they came from. only government-run shelters maybe? that's certainly not been my experience when going around to shelters in this area.
just out of curiosity, i went on petfinder. again, not the most scientific method, but i picked three cities in different parts of the country and started counting. i did not count dogs in breed-specific rescues. i only counted a couple pages for each, but i got 35 purebred vs 23 mixed, 26 purebred vs 26 mixed, and 26 purebred vs 24 mixed.
if the dog was listed as purebred and looked obviously mixed, i counted it as mixed. even if my numbers are off by some, which i'm sure they are, that's still a far cry from only 25% of dogs in shelters being purebred. and that doesn't count the breed-specific rescues. there are, for example, TONS of pit bulls in shelters (at least the ones which don't auto-euth), TONS of labs, etc.
byb-ing is much more of a problem than this person is making it out to be. not only the shelter issue, but the health issues and the temperament issues as well.