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• The rescue-only crowd insists that every dog purchased from a breeder is a death sentence for a stray. —  Gents Canine Society
• It's a moral crime and anyone who spends money on a purebred from a breeder is aiding and abetting the crime. —  Ask MetaFilter
• An equally worrying aspect of the scam, aside from the financial loss to the breeder is the fact that the puppies can often be left in the lurch as the breeder would have unwittingly told other possible buyers that the pup in question was not for sale due to a deposit being paid on it. —  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine
• He would never know how sure a breeder was his new bull -- the son of that fine creature he had imported; two cows he had spotted as not paying their board could go on for months eating good alfalfa and bran before —  Dust
• Men like Lamarck, apprehending these facts, and knowing that varieties comparable to those produced by the breeder are abundantly found in nature, and finding it impossible to discriminate in some cases between varieties and true species, could hardly fail to divine the possibility that species even the most distinct were, after all, only exceedingly persistent varieties, and that they had arisen by the modification of some common stock, just as it is with good reason believed that turnspits and greyhounds, carrier and tumbler pigeons, have arisen. —  Lectures and Essays

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