sure, but those are edge cases. You’re equating the entire profession with their worst representatives. Besides I’m all for outlawing that kind of breeding, because the demand for them won’t disappear.
if you sterilize 100% of all pets, where else are you supposed to get them? I’m talking long term in the context of the article. of course you can go the adoption route too. I’m just talking about how they would reproduce.
Because pets and stray pets are an ecological disaster, especially if they freely reproduce in the wild. It’s fine if you keep them at home, but not if you let them roam free. cats will kill anything they come across just for fun. entire species and ecosystems have been wiped out because of this.
Our neighbor had freely reproducing barn cats that he didn’t care about at all, so you’d have sickly cats all over the neighborhood, regularly finding dead ones. It isn’t fun for them either. It’s best for everyone involved to leave their reproduction to breeders.