Thread: the killing fields

Originally Posted by brims

I've searched out and read close to 50 Maine Coon breeder contracts online, mainly from the US and not one of them did not state something like "indoor or outside on a leash". You can take anything I say anyway you wish, but the facts are what they are. Granted there are many more breaders that 50, but when that line shows up in every one of them.

Again, I have to respond. Just because you found N breeders with similar if not identical contracts - which are in all probability based on similar source documents - does not imply either that those N are in themselves reputable or that only breeders that are reputable have those contracts. What you have found is that normal practise in your location is to include these terms in a contract, nothing more, nothing less.

To me, living in the UK, a reputable breeder is one that both conforms to my expectations of animal welfare and good practise and also has gained a reputation with their peers and previous clients of the same.

There is far to much sloppy "A means B therefore B means C" going on in people's writing to justify their own opinions nowadays.