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@imagebeastmarkbeast It depends on the specific region (their specific answer might be different, but I'd guess it's the same theme), but in my city most of the dogs available in shelters are undersocialized Mastiff or Husky type dogs. Because it's a city, many people live in condos or...

@annaliseh Not the OP, but you see more of it more in Western Europe than in North America. Jo Laurens in the UK (who has a book called "Force Free Gundog") works GSPs, Weims and Slovakian Pointers, for example. I'm in Canada (Southern Ontario), and my experience here is people are about 85%...

@gnobody "Appeasing society" can mean so many things. If your municipality limits households to three dogs and you keep four, you can expect a fine. If the reason you have four is because you inherited a tiny 18-year-old dog from your 101-year-old grandmother, most people will be sympathetic to...

@deryon Eh, I've been out in the field with many people who use ecollars the appropriate way, and I've still seen more than one well trained dog run through ecollar stims. A friend's five-year-old Toller ran through and ended up chasing a train, which went about as well as you can imagine...

@nabthefool If this will be the first dog you do sports/shows with, will better breeders give you a show-quality puppy? To be fair, I'm in Canada and am involved with a different breed, so this may not be representative of your situation, but one of the questions I see breeders ask of any...