I really don't know anything about the international dog trade so I can't comment on what people would or wouldn't do. (Twenty thousand dollars for a dog? Does it talk or grant wishes or something!?)
My response was more based on the hope I have that the CDC hasn't been compromised by the profit motive over their mission to prevent disease.
That kind of money (and I'm approximating here) is for a dog with all the documents and one that can be used for breeding (not neutered/spayed). So in a way it's an investment.
I'm very skeptical of the motivations in this case. Many countries use disease control as an excuse to implement economic policies. I doubt that the US is immune.
> That kind of money (and I'm approximating here) is for a dog with all the documents and one that can be used for breeding (not neutered/spayed). So in a way it's an investment.
I'm not into purebred dogs myself, just heard about this. One other thing that breeders must do is periodically "refresh" the gene pool. In order to do this they track down other breeders with dogs/cats of the same breed but with distant lineage (so usually in another country) and buy an animal. I've heard stories of an inexperienced breeder buying a puppy whose parents actually came from a kennel in the same town (and of course paying a ton to import said dog). You can imagine how much this new regulation is going to hurt the gene pool of the purebreds.
I really don't know anything about the international dog trade so I can't comment on what people would or wouldn't do. (Twenty thousand dollars for a dog? Does it talk or grant wishes or something!?)
My response was more based on the hope I have that the CDC hasn't been compromised by the profit motive over their mission to prevent disease.
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