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Originally Posted by megansmomma  [/COLOR]
I hate to jump into the middle of this but Millers, puppymills, dog auctions, and pet stores all go hand in hand. It pretty much breaks down like this millers own puppymills, they bring their "stock" to the auctions to sell or purchase more, auctions sell to puppy brokers or other millers and then on to the pet stores. I hope that makes sense...... |
Ah yes. That's what I assumed.
What I meant by 'good intentions or not' was that rescues go to do what they do: rescue. Even though rescues will have good intentions (just like the family buying the little puppy from the pet store because they feel sorry for it) this all still leads to demand. I know millers and probably stores will go to auction to get pups to make money from and although rescues aren't supposed to be making money off homing ANY pet, this still fuels supply and demand... right? Rescues might as well be brokers to recoup costs! In the end in almost all paths, the pups lose. Maybe not the re-homed ones, but the ones that take the places of those bought at auction.
Here we are back at square one.