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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently no one is allowed to post any opinions against buying from a breeder on the labradoodle thread, so I'm starting a new thread here.  I'm seriously interested in hearing how anyone can justify buying a designer dog when so many beautiful dogs are available for adoption in shelters.  How do you sleep at night? [/quote]
This is like asking how someone can justify having their own children when so many are waiting to be adopted. [/quote]

Seriously.  If I'm going to lose sleep over something, it will be kids that need a "forever home", not dogs that need one.  (And I really, really love dogs.)

I do find it really irritating that I am expected to rescue a dog to support the bad habits of lots of people that should know better and yet refuse to neuter/spay their pets.  I would, however, support donating money towards a program that provides free spay/neuter for people in the South (which is where almost all these dogs come from), and also would support laws that give you a discount on pet licenses for spayed/neutered dogs, or other regulatory efforts that would incentivize spaying and neutering pets.  As it is, the current social pressure to rescue dogs enables two groups of people that I have no desire to enable:  1) people who let their dogs roam around without bothering to fix them (most of whom do not live in my neck of the woods); and 2) puppy mills that dump their excess product on rescue organizations.

Decent people that need to rehome a pet fro a good reason (like military families that get posted abroad, or families where there's a medical issue that prevents them from keeping the pet) can almost always re-home their pet through neighrborhood or social circles.  [/quote]

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