petshop chins from breeders?

[Jessi]

Okay, I got a rescued a chin from a girl who couldn't take care of him. He's a really good-looking healthy chin. I might want to breed him sometime maybe. I called the petshop they got him from to ask where they usually get their chins. A lady said he was from a breeder that doesn't deal with the public :confused: I was like, "Um, okay?" She knows the basic history of him from the breeder. It just sounds like a guy that breeds them but instead of selling them to people directly, he sells them to the pet store. Would he still be good for breeding?

[equus_peduus]

Try to see if you can get some contact info for him and ask him about the chin and his background. I wouldn't breed if you don't know if his bloodlines have a history of malocclusion, for example, or other heritable diseases. Just because he came from a breeder doesn't meen he's breedable... An animal is sold because the breeder didn't want to keep it in his own herd to start with (which doesn't mean that it's a bad quality chin, just that it's not what the breeder is looking for at the time)

[Micahsmom]

There are two opinions that people generally have: no because you don't know its background; and yes because he has the qualities you want to breed. If I were in your place, I'd try to contact the breeder directly. If they give you the run-around, maybe they are hiding something. There is always a HUGE risk in breeding chins without a known background, especially from a petstore. But this is an ethics question, so you can only look to yourself for the right answer. :) good luck.

[Jessi]

Equus (sp?) what kind of chinchilla is in your little pic thingy? Mine looks like that! Not to get off subject O.O;

[equus_peduus]

He's a white mosaic. There's a full-face picture in my profile. I'll be taking some better pictures of him in a couple months when a friend of mine who has a digital camera and is chin-crazy comes to visit :P

[msfedx]

I have one near me that sells chins and they are usually fairly pretty chins, so I once asked the owner of the store where she got them, she answered a breeder, I asked who where, backgrounds pedigree? and all of that, she pretty much told me nothing the only thing I could get out of her was he was from Va. and knew what he was doing cause he has 1.000s of them he knows what hes doing she says and prices high-top dollar, so needless to say I never got any from a pet store. I still like to stop in there and peak at them though, it bothers me that they are all together and I would say 6 months to 1 year old, so you could wind up with a pregnant chin, pregnant to a brother or something. I have seen anywhere from 1-4 in there at a time, a fairly big aquairian about 3 foot by 3 foot and a foot high covered by screen always clean and water and food. I wish they had more ventilation though,.

[queenkayla]

theres one breeder near us that sells his to petstores. he only sells 'pet' quality tho. i remember a friend and i had stop by a petstore where she had gotten her chinchilla from and we asked where the chinchilla came from and all they told us was from a breeder that lives near by. so we left and i havent been back there since.

[starleomach]

Big Breeders sell their lower quality animals to pet store, and since they are the lower quality they should not be bred. Ususally you can buy a great quality male from a breeder for just a little more than the petstore sometimes less. theoretically the point of breeding is to improve the animal.

[Princess Sarah]

There is a breeder near us that also sells to a petstore I have been to. I don't care to much for the petstore, They dont seem very caring for there animals. But I saw a beige chin at the store, So i asked where did you get the chin from? They of course said a local breeder, i asked where, who, what is the chins backround? As I waited for about 20 mins for the woman to come back.( Because she had to tal to the owner, to ok the release of any info.) (Plus she had to ask if it was male or female... lol) When she did finally come back she told me the breeder was from North Hampton, and the breeder was a woman. She was so Rude to me too, like i didnt have a right to ask. The chin wasnt well taken care of his cage was set up badly, and buy the looks of the cagethe chin was eating to plastic off the bars and trying to escape... yu can tell a depressed chin when you see one!
But If you could get ahold of the breeder that would be the best thing to do. Or even if you could talk through the owner of the pet shop, maybe they could get you info on your chinnie. Good luck!

[WestCoastChins]

Most of the time the pet store won't want to tell you what breeder the chin came from, and if they tell you anything, they won't want to be specific.

Breeders generally sell their lower quality animals to pet stores, and you have no idea what their history is.