We MUST continue to educate

Looking for a young, fully intact male, plott hound or plott hound/cur mix. The age could range anywhere from a few months old up to 1 year old. He must be fully intact! We are looking to breed him to our catahoula leopard female once he is old enough. Willing to pay a rehoming fee if needed. A bonus would be that I can have one before Christmas, or that the pup's parents were hunting dogs. (If not, its not a problem) :) Thanks for reading! I will be looking until I find one!
Email me with some info if you have any and I will get back to you ASAP. (My email is hooked to my phone).
Thanks Again! :)
Merry Christmas!

This ad was posted on Craigslist. Ads such as these make my blood boil. I bet I can describe the poster of this ad to a T. I can bet he, and yes I am sure it is a male, has never worried about his unaltered female have mammary cancer. Testicular cancer in an altered male never entered his mind. The thought that we kill hundreds, if not thousands of dogs in this area each year because homes cannot be found for them doesn't faze him. In fact, he wants to bring even more of those dogs into the equation.

We must continue to educate. Does this mean the ads like the one above will go away? No, it doesn't. It doesn't because there are always going to be young men out there who believe altering a dog changes the dog's personality. There are always going to be young men out there who mistakenly believe they can breed characteristics from a dog they like into another dog simply by breeding them. There are always going to be young men out there who think because animals are property they can do whatever/whenever they want and no one has the right to tell them they can't.

When you have unaltered pets, you will get babies. Many times the babies are not the breed you are looking for. There have always been puppies. We will always have puppies. Unfortunately we cannot legislate peoples' private animals except for licensing purposes. We can push for stronger legislation against puppy mills and backyard breeding operations.

We can educate. We can start with children and move forward. We can schedule seminars and classes for kids to help them and their parents realize what more puppies are doing. We cannot stop these kids from growing up into testosterone filled young men who want what they want. Maybe if we can catch them young enough, we can change the machismo associated with breeding dogs and these ads will disappear in our lifetime. We can always try.