Dogdaddy69
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
It's always going to depend on the mentality of the individual breeder or breeder corporation, whatever their business set up is, but, in general, those contracts are ironclad and bulletproof. It's Contract Law. Business Law. The Legal reasons for them you'll get is protecting bloodlines, genetics, responsible breeding, yada yada yada. What it boils down to is a business protection. They make their living breeding and selling dogs, cats, livestock, whatever. If YOU have a breedable animal, that potentially cuts into their revenue stream.
Dogs are really small chump change in comparison to livestock bloodlines. Those things, you're looking at many millions, billions even, depending on the sizes of any given business entity. And, case law, legal precedent, can and does have drastic downline effects, so in general you dont often see much deviation from previous legal decisions. Because even a small deviation can have drastic and chaotic effects on entire sectors of business and industry. Think of it like The Butterfly Effect, right?
You won't break one of those contracts legitimately, legally, in one lifetime. You may violate one, but no one here is ever going to have enough time or money to crack one legally. There's too much at stake in the bigger picture. That being said, for purposes of this conversation, you own 1-2 dogs, any given breeder may decide to haul your ass into court, or not. And some will be lax while others might be very vigorus about legal action. It's a coinflip really. How much money do they want to spend tying you up in court, how much can you spend fighting it?
In the livestock version of things you have billion dollar industry going after billion dollar industry spending hundreds of millions in court cost and legal fees for years and years and years and moving the needle one way or another only in tiny increments, if at all.
Another thing to keep in mind is that most of the time, this isn't about the animal, it's the principle. There are and have been cases where the animal in question has been remanded by law enforcement, per court order. And also cases where the animal in question is destroyed. I mean, what are you gonna do? Hold off the sheriffs deputies or eventually a swat team over a dog?
Dogs are really small chump change in comparison to livestock bloodlines. Those things, you're looking at many millions, billions even, depending on the sizes of any given business entity. And, case law, legal precedent, can and does have drastic downline effects, so in general you dont often see much deviation from previous legal decisions. Because even a small deviation can have drastic and chaotic effects on entire sectors of business and industry. Think of it like The Butterfly Effect, right?
You won't break one of those contracts legitimately, legally, in one lifetime. You may violate one, but no one here is ever going to have enough time or money to crack one legally. There's too much at stake in the bigger picture. That being said, for purposes of this conversation, you own 1-2 dogs, any given breeder may decide to haul your ass into court, or not. And some will be lax while others might be very vigorus about legal action. It's a coinflip really. How much money do they want to spend tying you up in court, how much can you spend fighting it?
In the livestock version of things you have billion dollar industry going after billion dollar industry spending hundreds of millions in court cost and legal fees for years and years and years and moving the needle one way or another only in tiny increments, if at all.
Another thing to keep in mind is that most of the time, this isn't about the animal, it's the principle. There are and have been cases where the animal in question has been remanded by law enforcement, per court order. And also cases where the animal in question is destroyed. I mean, what are you gonna do? Hold off the sheriffs deputies or eventually a swat team over a dog?
