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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was telling an acquaintance that I have two dogs. That’s all I said. She asked me, “Are they rescues?”

I told her no, and that I got them from breeders. (Both[b] responsible show breeders[/b], but I didn’t tell her that.)

This woman had the nerve to turn her nose up at me. Like, WTF?

These [i]aDoPt DoNt ShOp[/i] people are so unserious.

[NP][/quote]

American show breeders breed for looks. That's irresponsible[/quote]

Oh, shut up. You people are insufferable. Responsible breeders breed for the health and betterment of the breed according to the breed standard.

You support puppy mills.

[PP][/quote]

My dog came from a place where people don't get their dogs spayed or neutered and let them roam free. There aren't "breeders" in the sense of someone who's picking a dame and a sire to procreate. But there is breeding in the sense that the boy dogs and girl dogs find each other and do what nature inspires them to do.

I don't know of anyone who would describe that situation as a puppy mill.

I am also confused by people equating rescues (which get their dogs from all sorts of places, depending on their mission) with county pounds, which have stay and surrendered dogs. IME, the pound does less screening of adopters and charges a lot less, but that's because they get county money.

My dog needed to be neutered and treated for heartworm before he could be adopted. The rescue (rescue rescue rescue) that did all this charged hundreds of dollars, but I'm pretty sure it was less than the rescue paid in vet fees.[/quote]

Many of the rescuses take the dogs from the shelters and sell them.  [/quote]

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