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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some outlet did a huge expose of the practice of buying "rescues" from breeders and how it perpetuates the dog production business and costs donors huge amounts of money.  I think it ws The Post, and I think it was pre-covid.

[back after googling] - here's an article that points to the Post article. No idea how/if this has changed over the past 7 years.

https://philanthropydaily.com/the-big-business-of-dog-rescue/

But I do agree - I hate to be so hard hearted, but there are too many dogs, and shuttling them from one area of the country to another does not seem to be an efficient use of resources.  [/quote]
That article is 7 years old, anything recent? You keep bringing it up every time to support your point that rescues are buying puppies.[/quote]

The facts haven't changed, and the article cited is sound. If anything, this same phenomenon has gone unchecked, and is likely worse. If you didn't believe it then, you probably won't believe it now, but there's the reality for you.

DP. Wow, some of the comments below are clearly from people who know the industry....
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The non-profit pet rescue business model is broken. It cannot work. Basic economic and psychological principles prove it.

Animal rescue organizations are [always, sometimes, occassionally. You decide…] pet shops masquerading as welfare agencies. They’re just the predictable byproduct of the “pet shops are inhumane, breeders are barbaric” movement. Same coin, different side. Rescuers simply took the same business model (get animal, house animal, sell animal) and called it something else.

Problem is they took a commercial transaction-which has rules, and regulations and at least a modicum of transparency and turned it into a transaction based solely on emotion. A cute puppy face, heart-wrenching story of a life tied to a tree, with a little guilt thrown in equals a customer willing to donate (see: “pay”) $500+ for a puppy. “Adopt, dont shop” and the rest of the rhetoric was a brilliant marketing scheme not to promote the rescue mentality but to eliminate the commercial competition.

Many of these rescues are “non-profit”, a distinction that allows them to operate in a nebulous gray area in which few regulators can/will tread. Potential customers see “non-profit” and automatically assume the organization is doing God’s work, saving the meek animal, salt of the earth type work on a shoestring budget. Sometimes that’s true, sometimes not. But give it time and the less-than-reputable will learn that non-profit doesn’t mean there aren’t chances to make money for themselves personally, especially in an under-regulated industry where the wares cant speak up and complain.

Finally, the disreputable rescuers (which many will become, eventually) are financially and/or emotionally incentivized to actually do the opposite of their purported mission. Easy money motivates them to keep the supply chain alive and well, which means fewer sterilized animals and overcrowded cages. Doing anything less would mean fewer animals (and therefore fewer unwanted animals–isnt that what they sayreally want) and therefore less money

-DP[/quote][/quote]

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