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Originally Posted by ladyjane  This is a very controversial topic with some rescuers. There are many who do this and justify it every way they can; but I have yet to buy into their philosophy.
I can find at least one yorkie in a shelter on any given day in Texas, so it escapes me why anyone would drive to Missouri to get mill pups and yet there are two groups here in TX that I know do that regularly. One look at some of the websites and you see over and over the words: "puppy mill" and "breeder release".
It totally boggles my mind and also just frustrates the heck out of me. We are being inundated with yorkies and our group is so full. I cannot get another rescue to help because they are full...yet their pups are mostly from the above mentioned.
I have had this conversation with two rescues on different occasions and have never gotten them to understand how they are leaving pups to be euthanized in shelters. Their response is always that the pups they get would also be euthanized.
I have given up trying to explain it because they simply are going to do what they do anyway.
Yes, they are saving dogs....I just think that they are enabling the not so reputable breeders and mills to continue doing what they do. |
I would have to agree this with thought process as well. It is supply and demand. If rescues would stop going to dog auctions and "buying freedom" for auction dogs then their would be less demand. Which in turn would allow the rescue to focus their attention on the shelters that are putting dogs down every day. To a mill, these dogs are a supply and demand commodity and if a rescue is causing the demand to increase by pruchasing from their supply they will supply it. This is a vicious cycle on both ends.
Their response is always that the pups they get would also be euthanized.
But a mill can only euthanize so many because they have a much more limited supply and they also CONTROL their supply. If there is no demand from the mill to breed yorkies for example they will cut back on the amount of breeding females they keep. The females might be turned over for free, dropped at a shelter or unfortunately PTS but their supply will then drop because of lack of willingness to purchase. It is all about money to these people.