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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone is willing to sell you a dog … it’s probably a puppy mill.

And never, ever buy a doodle of any kind. It’s just a mutt. [/quote]

Rescues and shelters sell the animals.   [/quote]
Rescues are non profits. They charge an adoption fee that serves two purposes: recouping some of the money they’ve spent on veterinary care, dog food and other expenses, and making sure you’re a serious adopter (not buying the dog to use as bait for dog fighting, you probably have money to cover regular veterinary care). They make sure dogs are healthy, groomed, dewormed, up to date on shots, and spayed or neutered if they’re old enough. The rescue I adopted from incurred all of those expenses for my dog, plus a dental exam and cleaning. The neutering alone was more than $400. The adoption fee was only $350.[/quote]

So, basically the same expenses as breeders.  That is still selling them.  They cherry pick dogs they know they can resell.  [/quote]
Sales have a goal of turning a profit or at least breaking even. Rescues have to have fundraisers because the adoption fees don’t cover all of their expenses, even for all the healthy, adoptable dogs. When there’s a dog with special medical needs, they don’t pass the cost of the medical treatment on to the adopters, and they don’t adopt the dog out until it’s medically stable. Rescues raise funds to cover expensive surgeries that adopters wouldn’t consider paying for. They’ll pay to treat medical conditions that occurred when the dog wasn’t even under their care.

Breeders are only paying for medical expenses for the first 8-12 weeks of puppies’ lives. They’re not spaying and neutering pups and having their teeth cleaned. They’re generally not paying for x-rays or ultrasounds or surgeries. They don’t cover the costs of treating the medical issues that arose from someone else’s neglect and abuse of animals.[/quote]

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