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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because, when you have a dog bred for yourself (which is what going to a breeder is), you're sentencing to death the dog that you would have adopted (which is what you would be doing).

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19:58 here.

And... there's lots of misinformation out there!

1. Rescues directly enable the dog industry by buying dogs at puppy mill auctions, and indirectly by transporting and distributing puppy mill dogs, for a small charitable donation, thereby feeding demand.

2. In the larger scheme of things that practically no one understands, what's truly important is to protect the future of the dog species. Saving individual dog lives is nice, but completely inconsequential next to that critical long-term goal. What's important is to control and clean-up breeding. Puppy mill and backyard breeding create dangerous genetic illnesses that are passed down and accumulate in breeding lines. They are the modern day continuation of the purely esthetic breeding that started in the early 20th century, when people didn't know about genetic diseases. Now we know better. Good breeders do not breed dogs that test positive for a myriad of known genetic disease markers. They are the ones who should be respected and extolled for saving the species in the LONG-TERM. I understand this because I'm a geneticist. If you want the dog species to survive, you need to support good breeding practices, and that means testing for preventable genetic diseases and only breeding dogs that test negative for those.

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1. This is factually not true
2. If you are a geneticist- what do you think of this study esp the Inbreeding factor of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever? http://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/12/1445#abstract-1[/quote]

DP. Point number one is absolutely true. Rescues support auctions and puppy mills, either directly or indirectly.

If you don't believe me, do you believe the Washington Post?

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

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