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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any dog that gets out of the shelter is a good thing. That allows more dogs, resources and time to go to other dogs. Why is that bad?[/quote]

Well, it’s because the “adopt don’t shop” movement, while well intended, has made it harder and not easier to find an ethical breeder. But then at the same time, people need family pets and most of the strays and unwanted puppies in America, thanks to effective spay/neuter laws in the North, are pit and hound mixes. People want smaller, easier dogs as pets. So you get a lot of rescues that can “poof” sanitize any dog into being an “adopt don’t shop” dog, including the ones they buy from breeders and auctions. Mostly those are people trying to do the right thing but there are probably also some bad actors genuinely masquerading as “rescues” too. I don’t mean the rescue in the OPs post, I mean people selling dogs as being “rescued from a puppy mill” or whatever and they’re just buying them.

The problem is that neither the rescue or breed people are willing or able to articulate a sustainable, long term vision for how best to supply the suburbs with healthy, suitable family pets. So the market gets kind of warped. [/quote]

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