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Originally Posted by tammy8833  well here there are hardly ever any small cute breeds in shelters here. trust me i volunteer at one as well as my mom, for many years and occasionally we will get a chiuahuah or a poodle they dont even make it to the available listing, we had a yorki-poo one time and a volunteer kept that one. its always lab mixes, pit mixes (lots of pits mixes) shepherds, beagle..and for me thats not something i would be interested in. sure sometimes there are puppies available but not very often here. its like i said i see some on petfinders but they are never local.. |
From what I understand, when the shelters get the yorkies, or s**tzu's, etc... they then call the nearest yorkie rescue. And they're never hardly seen at the shelter unless the rescue's couldn't take them. Hence the reason of all the mixes in the shelters and less purebreds. If all of the neglected animals were in there, I believe it would be half and half. I don't think it's so much the dogs fault, but the owner.
I think the problem is pet overpopulation, uncontrolled breeding. People not caring and not being selective in their breeding practices. BYBer's out to make a dime, with 15 breeding dogs far from the standard, sold to the first one with the money.