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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

no?

also, the key difference is they don't generate more dogs. they reduce the number of available dogs. [/quote]

Yes and no. They aren't the ones breeding animals but they are the ones out there shipping in "adoptable" dogs from Puerto Rico when the shelters are full here. They are often ones that help breeders who have "unsellable" dogs become "adoptable" dogs with only a small profit discount.  Breeders can absolutely also be rescues. It's a tangled web these days. Unless you are adopting a pit bull from a city shelter, odds are the dog has been cherry picked to be "adoptable". [/quote]

Interesting how they cherry pick such a wide range of dogs, in terms of age, medical condition, and temperament.

But I’m intrigued to hear more - what does the nonprofit rescue get out of picking some dogs to adopt but not others? And are the cherry picked dogs in need of a home?[/quote]
They are cherry-pickig dogs that can be adopted fast (or at least have enough interests from fosters to keep them out of shelters). I see that looking at the lists of adoptable dogs at local rescues that ship dogs from the South - mostly puppies and young dogs under 3 yo for large-breed dogs; older dogs are mostly close to purebred (I've seen GSD, rotties, poodles, coonhounds, etc), and small dogs of almost all ages. 
Older pits or unknown mutts over 50 lbs are rare guests, and most of the times were previously adopted as pups/young dogs and them returned.
So, yeah, rescues do triage too, they don't have unlimited resources to save all or keep dogs forever, especially if rescue is mainly foster-based. 
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So, basically you're saying that rescues don't rescue EVERY dog... okay? [/quote]
Yes, they don't save every dog. It doesn't mean they shouldn't try at all or they're "dog re-sellers" that encourage puppy mills as some of the PPs suggested [/quote]

and rescuing SOME dogs is better than breeding MORE dogs.[/quote]
Absolutely!
Signed,
Foster, currently have 3 foster dogs from the South in my care[/quote]

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