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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/investigations/dog-auction-rescue-groups-donations/

“An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.

The result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the breeders, two groups that have long disparaged each other. The rescuers call many breeders heartless operators of inhumane “puppy mills” and work to ban the sale of their dogs in brick-and-mortar pet stores. The breeders call “retail rescuers” hypocritical dilettantes who hide behind nonprofit status while doing business as unregulated, online pet stores.

But for years, they have come together at dog auctions where no cameras are allowed, with rescuers enriching breeders and some breeders saying more puppies are being bred for sale to the rescuers.

Bidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation’s two government-regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents The Washington Post obtained from an industry insider.”

But even if a rescue is not doing this, they are shipping tons of irresponsibly bred pit and hound mix puppies, mostly, from the South all the time to be “adopted” up here. Once you’ve created a pipeline like that, what is the incentive for southern states to prevent the breeding of those puppies? Why would they make any policy changes?

At the same time, they’re telling people not to buy dogs from breeders. But they’re not articulating any sort of plan for how people should acquire pets if the southern states got their acts together. And the reputable breeders aren’t doing anything to help people find them, in fact they seem determined to make it as hard as possible. 
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Anything more recent on the topic? Or maybe you can name any of the local rescues that part of that group of 86?[/quote]

I got my wonderful dog from Lucky Dog, in recent years. They had like 20 pit mix puppies outside a petsmart and they were touting their facility in SC.  And listen, I like dogs! I like rescues! But it makes no sense to me to say Amish puppies are unethical but a pipeline of pit bull puppies from SC is virtuous just because one is a business and one is a non-profit, unless the non-profit sees the 20 pitbulls outside a Petsmart as a temporary, necessary, problematic stop gap on the way to a more sustainable system to generate healthy pets. But I see no evidence that they see it that way.

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If they sell those pitbulls it profit for them….[/quote]

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