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Originally Posted by jeanm1963  Although I do not support them supporting puppymills I cant say enough about Make a Wish Foundation, one of my very good friends lost her son to Cancer at the age of 10, they were financially devestated by all the medical bills, due to make a wish they were able to take him to Disney , a family trip to the Bahamas, he got to meet the Red Sox and they helped them with thier mortgage the last 2 months of Nicks life, they also gave him his Great Dane , I dont know where he came from but they sure did make one happy child for the two years before he passed away. Golliath the great dane would lay in bed with Nick for hours after he had chemo and stayed by him till his death. I know its terrible that they support bad breeders and or puppy mills but I think Make a Wish has its best intentions at heart. Im sure if wonderful breeders were to donate pups to the they would take a pup from them as well, unfortunatly I dont think alot of people who are getting 800-1500 dollars a dog are willing to just donate a puppy!! JMHO |
If you go and read the link to the Petland Birthday parties I too know someone who's child had Wilm's Tumor at 2 yrs old. She was granted a wish as well and I do wholeheartedly believe they are a wonderful organization that does great things for sick children. That is why I am so outraged that they are being blindly lead by Petland.
Petland is USING Make a Wish to gain exposure to sell more puppies. They do get their puppies from mills. Are you saying that because a child has cancer that a puppy mill dog is acceptable? I just cannot wrap my head around what you are trying to justify. Do you not understand the treatment that dogs in ANY large breeding kennel that are shipped around the country and sold is just not a good practice. Do you support pet shop purchases?
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no doubt in my mind that your friends son took great comfort in his great dane puppy while fighting cancer. But what about the suffering in the mills were that great dane puppy came from?
Make a Wish should be stepping up to the plate and saying that they will not accept donations from Petland and their puppymill puppies.
This thread was not started to bash MaW by any stretch of the imagination. I was stunned with their response to my email this morning.
I truly felt and still feel that they do not understand the entire scope of what it means to accept puppies that are breed in mills as gifts to grant wishes to children in their charity.