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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here, I also volunteer to do the bookkeeping for a local area rescue group.  It is entirely volunteer run.  Volunteers go to shelters down south, pull dogs that they think can be rescued - meaning they aren't aggressive, and if they have medical issues, they are medical issues that we can address - and we get them into vets and fosters down south.  Every few weeks, we pay someone a small fee to transport a van full of these dogs to the DMV.  Fosters here in the DMV then take the dogs home and we keep them until someone applies to adopt the dog.  We charge about $300 in adoption fees which helps cover the costs of vetting, transport, supplies.  NO ONE in the rescue group is making any money.

The dogs we pull aren't puppy mill dogs that's true; But when I hear people talking about buying dogs from "reputable breeders", it just makes me want to cry.  There are so many abandoned dogs that need homes.

I have fostered a dog through them who had a seizure disorder; someone adopted her and she's happy now.

I have fostered a dog through them who had a blown out ACL that the org paid to fix.  Happily adopted now.

I have fostered a small dog whose pelvis had to be completely rebuilt because someone had kicked it and broken all the bones.

I fostered a dog that was left tied to someone's front porch for weeks and weeks and not fed.  It was a bag of bones.

Last weekend I saw a dog at the foster rendevouz that had had acid thrown on it.  The dog was still sweet and nice to people.

It never fails to astonish me how resilient and loving these dogs still are.

The problem is not the rescue groups buying the used breeding dogs.  The problem is the demand for the puppies of the used breeding dogs.  Now I do agree there are some shady rescues out there.  Do your research and go with a reputable rescue group or shelter.  For heaven's sake, please, please don't contribute to the problem by encouraging breeding of any dogs anywhere by buying from breeders.

A good test is if the group you are getting a dog from insists on spay/neuter before giving you the dog.  [/quote]

I will always buy my dogs from the best breeders, because they are the only ones who are working toward the health betterment of dog breeds. Responsible breeding means:
 - only breeding dogs who have had a rigorous health screen for genetic diseases, 
 - never breeding a dam more than twice in her entire life and only after she turns 2,
 - care 24/7, 
 - less than 5 dogs living in the owner's home, not in a kennel, 
 - video feed to clients so that we can observe everything, 
 - daily handling of the pups from birth to get them used to vets and groomers, controlled exposure to all kinds of noises and experiences.

Thank you very much for saving dogs' lives, PP. I am grateful for the work you do.
However, if you care about the dog as a species, you MUST realize that work has to be done on several different issues simultaneously. 
You work in the short term to save many individual lives. This is wonderful!
Good breeders work the long-term goal of cleaning up a hundred years of ignorant production of dogs purely for cosmetic purposes, which has led to the GS' and Golden's lower back and leg paralysis, the brachycephalic breeds' breathing problems, the CCKC's heart disease, etc. They register their dogs with CHIC, which is an online health database for dogs, where markers for every single major inheritable disease is noted. You can look a dog up, as well as his ancestors, and see whether that line is healthy enough to breed.

These are the breeders who do NOT make money! As you can imagine, breeding two litters for every dam when you have 2 or 3 dams is a time-consuming hobby, not a business! Usually the price of the puppies recoups the costs of vet care and the rest. [/quote]

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