I have just read through this entire thread and I am just beyond words! Well maybe not
It is irresponsible in any ecomony to first breed dogs for any reason other than the betterment of the breed. I am sorry but there is no excuse to not have your dogs spayed or neutered. The idea that this woman had an intentional breeding of her dogs to try to make money is just mind boggling!
First off, she took a chance that her female would have a safe delivery. What is there were complications? What if emergency vet care would have been needed during the delivery? Then what? If they do not have money for lifes necassities there would obviously be no money for a vet emergency for something that was PLANNED!
Then lets touch on the issue of vet care for the puppies. I am guessing there was none. Not responsible in any shape of form. Even the basic vet care would have cost several hundred so I am guessing no vaccines were given to these puppies.
Now you have just added to the overpopulation of animals and brought more helpless animals into this world without regard for their future.
Where do you draw the line with selling puppies to make a buck? Is it only alright to do it you are unemployed, terminally ill, need to buy the grandkids Christmas gifts............should be make a list?
If is is wrong for one person it is just wrong straight across the board! There are no "IF's" in the equation.
Don't even get me started on the Amish! Hmmm so it's alright for them to turn to breed because they have lost factory jobs! That is beyond ridiculous!
Puppymills are lucrative to the millers but what about all of the suffering that goes on in the mills? That is a very uneducated opinion to even try to state.
I am sorry but there is no way that I would ever consider breeding dogs for any reason.
I have not been able to find a job in 18 months. Unemployment lasts for 99 weeks according to the latest legislation passed by the Senate a few months back. There is help with heat, electric, and food if you make an effort to look for it . Instead this woman decided to sit in a parking lot selling puppies that were way too young to leave their mother.
Unethical and unacceptable no matter what the circumstances are in her life.
Actions like this woman's just perpetuates the suffering that goes on daily all over this country. There is absolutely no reason to ever try to rationalize breeding and selling ANYTHING on the side of the road.
Finally, I would like to point of that irresponsible breeding goes on to cost us the taxpayers that fund shelters and the disposing of all of these unwanted beloved pets that are sold.
Anyone that rationalizes that doing something unethical or illegal needs to take a look at their own moral compass.