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[quote=Anonymous]So many of my friends and family with rescue dogs have ended up with really reactive or neurotic dogs. Granted, some friends and family have difficult breeder dogs, too. But it did sway us. I suppose we could have gotten a rescue puppy instead of an older dog to avoid the trauma rescue/shelter dogs have endured, which is what we mostly were worried about.

What I don’t understand about the argument is what the end game is for “rescue only” folks. Isn’t the plan to eventually have all dogs be wanted dogs? To not have the need for shelters, pounds, and rescues, because dogs are all part of families? That means no puppy mills, no unscrupulous breeders, and all pets spayed or neutered. What you are left with is ethical and responsible breeders of working dogs and pets. So I got my dog from the source that I find to be the long term solution - a family where dogs live inside, no cages or pens (aside from whelping and little puppies) where any one female has a couple of litters over her lifetime and no more.[/quote]

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