Quote Originally Posted by Longdogs View Post
Sorry, but i still can't agree. It's great if someone puts in the effort of finding a healthy dog and looks after it well. But i cannot accept that someone's need to have a dog fitting some arbitrary narrow specification overrides the killing of hundreds of thousands of others.
I think this comes back the central argument of whether we consider it our responsibility or not. You do. Some of us don't. I probably do if it's easy and fits in with me.

I'm not trying to pick holes in your argument. But I'm interested by this figure "hundreds of thousands". Are there any statistics on dogs put down in the UK? Do vets need to feed into some sort of database? Also, I guess the reason behind the majority of dogs being put down is to prevent further suffering. In your experience, what's the proportion of healthy animals that make up the total number?