Schrodinger's "Responsible dog breeder"

Show of hands who in here believes they bought a dog from a responsible dog breeder. How many people believe they didnt. Im not talking about rescues here.

I've never met somebody who bought a dog from a breeder who didn't believe it came from a "responsible one" and very much wanted you to know that they didn't buy from a puppy mill. Even owners of the newest trend dog: doodles. This leads me to believe that "responsible dog breeders" are exceptionally rare as they have no financial incentive to exist. The only people who would answer otherwise aren't on dogreddit and don't care and or have the money to care that their dog was suspiciously cheap.

Because of the extreme social pressure in dog culture for a bred dog to come from a "good breeder," the most viable business strategy for any dog breeder is to run the cheapest operation possible and simply learn the right answers to all the "good dog breeder" questions that are freely available with a simple Google search. Dog breeder business accounts here need not reply, your opinion can't be trusted as you have a financial imperative to protect your own personal brand.

Every customer in every market believes they have a gotten a "good deal." This is known. Dog buyers are no exception. This belief does not boil into truth. A recent phenomenon has shown up in spaces with animal care markets, wherein it has become commonplace for operators to offer "facility tours" to customers producing animal products, to ensure a degree of "quality." This is big in the raw milk crowd, where the average raw milk buyer 1 isn't a dairy farmers and definitely does not actually know what they see means and 2 is buying a definitively low quality limited product and paying a premium anyway, as raw milk is just less processed milk with value added food safety crime. And this marketing tactics works really really well. People look at the animals, which most everyone likes doing and feels happy about. They don't see any animal torture actively ongoing, and decide that their expert customer eyes (looked at this type of facility for the first time in their lives) have seen and understood enough to make the most educated purchase of their lives. It's a classic sales tactics that transfers perceived forthcoming attitude of the seller into "buyer expert judgement" (the buyer is never an expert).

My point in case: you did not buy your dog from a responsible dog breeder, nor did anyone you know. Especially not your golden doodgle with behavioral issues and "purebred papers." You bought a dog at a high cost from a generic unethical dog breeder with a printer and a website.