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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From way back: I think the way puppy mills and the shady rescue organizations work is that the "expected donation" you make when you "rescue" a dog from one of these rescues gets funneled back to the puppy mills with percentages taken out along the way.  Go to a random rescue fair, how many times are you vaguely told that some dog came from "some" rescue in the south somewhere? I think they are routed though shady nonprofit to shady nonprofit until they get to wealthy areas.

People who are blindly smug about rescuing drive me nuts. There are some good rescue organizations but many aren't. [/quote]

I don't have all the details, but friends of mine in South Carolina are part of a underground for rescuing dogs. They said so many of the shelters are kill ones, and there's so much backyard breeding, that the rescues further north rely on volunteers who each move the dogs up the coast to no kill rescues. [/quote]

Yes, that goes on too.

I think basically a lot of people who are patting themselves on the back for "rescuing" are essentially subsidizing puppy mills and backyard breeders. Plus, as another PP pointed out, the same people don't seem to have much trouble eating factory farmed meat.[/quote]

I think this whole idea about rescue organizations subsidizing puppy mills is a conspiracy for people to feel better about adopting breeder dogs.  The only rescue dogs I've ever had have been full on mutts (like hound dog mixes) that no puppy mill is trying to breed.  And I used to live in the south.  Tons of people do not spay/neuter down there, so it's not surprising a lot of rescues come from down there.  Also, pretty much everyone I know with rescue dogs tends to be more educated than people I know with breeder dogs.  Think along the lines of highly educated, top-tier attorneys who are vegetarians or actually go out to local farms to stock their freezer with free range meat.  I know some first time dog owners living in hicksville who thought they'd be all fancy and get a breeder golden and now post on facebook with #goldensofinstagram a million times a day like it's some status symbol to have a purebred dog.  They are incredibly unhealthy, overweight, and are the ones who eat factory farm garbage.

I'm sure they're not the standard, but it goes to show you these stupid stereotypes about rescue people filtering money to puppy mills and eating in humanely treated meat is not necessarily true for all or most rescuers.[/quote]

Rescuing a mutt doesn't mean you're not subsidizing backyard breeders. Honestly, use a little logic. Where do you think this supply of convenient dogs comes from? I don't care if you adopt a rescue dog, just don't think you're more ethical than somebody who goes to an ethical breeder and don't go around crowing about your "rescue" and how awesome you are. I just am so tired of the blind bragging of the "rescue" crowd when it's obvious with even the slightest bit of investigation what's going on with so many of these shady "rescues." 
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I'm seriously trying to understand this logic.  So backyard breeders are breeding mutts to give away to rescues?  There
Is seriously no logic to this.  I did a dog DNA test and my dog came back with at least 7 different, very random breeds of all different sizes.  Who exactly is breeding all these random types of dogs together and trying to sell them?  Don't get me wrong -- I love my dog, but he's not exactly something you'd go pay top dollar for if you care about lineage.[/quote]

Backyard breeders don't exist just to sell purebreds. They breed all sorts of mutts for a variety of reasons, including for dog fighting, bait dogs, "how cute they'd be," carelessness, etc.[/quote]

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