Canine Norplant

I'm feeling strangely back-lashy towards the whole "you must spay/nuter your dog unless you're a breeder or shower" thing. Not because I think there should be more unwanted puppies (awwww) -- and don't think I'm deaf to the puppy plea, but I am feeling very anti-pure breedish, and certainly very anti-AKC, and I'm not alone in my resistance to the AKC.

What I want is for people to breed for the best possible companion dogs -- and I don't mean a damn labradoodle. I mean -- you know, sometimes you meet these great mixed dogs that have all this character and you know they won't get to pass it on because if you have a mixed dog and don't fix it than you're a terrible person.

I noticed when we were looking for a puppy the relative shortage of nice, adoptable dogs at the shelter and it seems that spay-nutering efforts are having interesting effects.

So I think we need canine norplant, in case your mutt turns out the be the best thing ever the world will at least have a chance to pass it on. Maybe it would be more like a doggie IUD, which could be removed if your dog won a certain number of contests sponsored by someone other than the AKC -- like best companion dog, or best babysitter, or best paper-fetcher, or something. Because otherwise, if the spay/nuter thing was totally successful, the only choice we'd have is to pic out a dog from a fairly limited number of AKC-defined breeds.

btw: I'm not thinking of Pica when I say all this.