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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  This is really bugging me. Various members of OKYR have come on and given very passionate defenses of buying dogs at auctions. The point is not whether your heart is in the right place. The point is that you are giving money to puppy mills!
This fact cannot be changed regardless of the motives of the people who "outed" OKYR, which dogs have been rescued, or how much of your own money and time you have dedicated. You may be a wonderful person, and you may have done these specific dogs a service. BUT -- another dog(s) will suffer in its place. Maybe you won't be the person eight years down the line picking up the next female that's been used up and spit out on the block. But that dog is getting created, even if it's not standing before you now.
How can someone say it's wrong to buy at a pet store, but okay to buy at an auction? If this question truly has an answer, I would love to hear it. |
like i said before.. this is a lose/lose.... there is no answer.. but in MY MIND i feel that the dogs we take out have another shot at life.. they will be replaced whether i go or not.. the millers maybe make $10 off me after their fees are all taken out.. so i do not really view that as a profit..