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Originally Posted by maximillion1   I completely agree!!! I have a 5 month old Yorkie Poo  , and honestly, I can't imagine my life without him and I don't remember my life before him!  He is affectionate, super smart, almost completly house broken and he is graduating from his puppy class in 2 weeks with flying colors. When shopping around for a new pooch, it amazed me how "true" dog/furbaby lovers talk so much crap amount mixed breed dogs as if they were a lower class, they deserve just as much love as any purebred and to be honest , it also amazes me how so many "dog lovers" will convince you not to get a "mutt", but I would think that if everybody decided to only buy purebred dogs, that it would certainly keep the shelters well populated...don't you think? You seem like a responsible person, if you want to raise a pack....feel free, every animal needs love, not just the ones with "pure genes" and everyone else that is so concerned about rescue pups, why don't you go adopt one? |
Maybe if the puppy millers and backyard breeders stopped pumping out the mixes (or dogs period) there would be less in the shelters. Maybe if people stopped making excuses and educated themselves and stopped buying from petstores, mills and BYB. Maybe if puppy millers and BYB realised that's what they really are and what they are doing is wrong there would be less in the shelters.
I see so many BYB on here and all over the net that for some reason do not think they are or a part of the problem.
I think buyer need to beware, be educated and stop the process. There is so much more to stopping the over pet-population then just adopting, there is also trying to do your part before the animals end up in the shelters. You can't support bad breeding practices then complain no one wants to adopt the ones who are the results.