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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why? Because the dogs have a much higher chance of being adopted if they bring them to the DC area. Many of the rescue pets are brought to the DC area following natural disasters in their home state...there's a huge surge in available pets. If they couldn't bring them to other parts of the country they'd have to be euthanized.

Meanwhile there's a huge demand to adopt pets in the DC area that isn't met by the local supply - and regardless of how you might feel about it, people looking to adopt pets are often looking for specific breeds or puppies/young dogs and might not have the experience, skills or desire to adopt a pet with a history of abuse, difficult behaviors or health issues. Denying a chance for adoption to highly adoptable pets isn't likely to increase the supply of homes for difficult to adopt pets.  Instead, many DC-area families that would have adopted a pet are more likely to turn to purchasing pets from breeders or traveling longer distances outside our area. Presumably the goal is to get more pets adopted in the US overall rather than focusing only on the DC area and not caring about what happens to animals elsewhere - right?[/quote]

The rescue I adopted from that ships dogs from SC also ships them from Puerto Rico. I mean at some point, it stops being rescue and it just starts being an intentional pipeline to support the careless breeding of a lot of puppies. Pits/hounds from SC and chihuahuas from PR. There’s no indication they have a plan to stop that flood of puppies or replace the system with something more sustainable. They built a whole permanent facility in SC. That’s not “rescue,” that’s making those puppies business as usual. If it weren’t a nonprofit, it would be a puppy mill. It’s like the uber of puppy mills - the breeders are all independent contractors. [/quote]

This is a good point. There's a market, and a demand. Until there's less demand, the supply will stay high. [/quote]

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