When families find that the puppies have a disease or genetic disorder (due to unhygienic breeding conditions or rampant inbreeding) or if they are unequipped to look after the dog (as was the case during the lockdown), they just abandon them on the street. The low price of these breed dogs from puppy mills actually discourages people from adopting indie dogs off the street. Gowda and other breeders DH spoke to say the trend, of late, is for beagles and golden retrievers a few years ago, there was a huge demand for Shih Tzus and other small breeds like Pugs.Īnimal activists and rescue workers say that the prevalence of these breeders actually increases the pressure on the system. The aspirational quality of these breed dogs, coupled with their representation in popular media, has fuelled the huge demand for these animals, which has led to the rise of puppy mills and unethical breeders. If you have an Audi, then you have to have a Chow Chow or a Siberian Husky at home,” said Keerthan. “Almost everyone with a dog turned into a breeder overnight,” said Gowda, who owns and breeds golden retrievers himself. The huge demand for these dogs also meant that prices nearly doubled. It is hard to estimate the number of such illegal breeding centres, but one can gauge the extent of the problem by simply browsing social media sites, where ‘dog adoption groups’ based out of Karnataka see at least 60-70 posts with photos of breed puppies, each day.īharat Gowda, the admin of one such Facebook group, said the number of dogs for sale shot up during the lockdown last year, and even this year, as more people turned to companion animals to stave off boredom.
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Over half of them are breeder discards.Īt the other end of the city, near Sarjapur, Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA) runs the Second Chance Adoption Center, which took in close to 60 breed dogs abandoned after being used for breeding last year. The CARE centre in Yelahanka rescues nearly 130-140 dogs each month, of which at least 20-30% are breed dogs, abandoned for various reasons. Most of the dogs were adopted, while some of them went to a permanent animal shelter operated by the Voice of Stray Dogs. “Then we submitted the reports to the police and confiscated the dogs,” said Aniruddha Ravindra, who coordinates rescues at CARE. All of us started puking,” Keerthan said.Īt first, the entire team landed up to take the blood tests and vaccinate the dogs, who are susceptible to various diseases when kept in such unhygienic conditions. “But that day, we couldn’t tolerate the stench. “As rescue workers, we are used to the hard smell,” said Keerthan R P, the manager at CARE, even as we stood talking at their rescue centre in Yelahanka, where the smell of urine and phenyl was strong enough to permeate two masks. Confined to the room, the dogs ate and defecated in the same space. The females were forcibly bred with indie dogs and the resulting litter was sold for a quick profit. Breeding programs for aquatic species should be family based and include new biotechnologies like genomic selection.In December last year, the team at Charlie's Animal Rescue Center (CARE) responded to a call about 13-odd breed dogs - six German shepherds, three pugs, terriers, labradors and an indie dog - that were kept chained at an abandoned building at Thanisandra near Hennur in Bengaluru.Ī 45-year-old painter Venkatesh, who moonlighted as a dog breeder, had kept the dogs chained in the locked rooms for months, with just a window for access. In 2010 less than 10% of aquaculture production was based on genetically improved stocks. However, the genetic improvement of species grown in aquaculture is far behind that achieved for animals and plants. The main reasons for the large genetic gains observed for aquatic species are their relatively high fertility and the natural existence of broad genetic variation for economically important traits, both of which allows a very high selection intensity to be applied. The genetic gain has been greater than 12% per generation for growth rate and for disease resistance when challenge tests are applied. 3rd Edition, Collegiate Press, Ames, 443.Īdvances by Selective Breeding for Aquatic Species: A ReviewĪquaculture, Selection, Advances, Genetic GainĪBSTRACT: During the last 40 years it has been shown that well planned family-based breeding programs yield high rates of genetic improvement for aquatic species.
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