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Originally Posted by straightsilk  There are legitimate reasons to surrender a dog to rescue. But 95% of the time, the breeders are to blame. The irresponsible breeders.
Edited to add: I wasn't suggesting that any money changes hands between the breeder and rescue, but since you mentioned it, yes, rescue is big business. There's a ton of money changing hands. Mostly coming from sincere animal lovers in the form of donations to greedy, politically motivated, radical agenda'd groups. They use that money to pass more and more restrictive laws on responsible breeders and feed the machine that's pumping out "rescue" dogs. |
I can tell you that YHR has never used money donated to care for pups to pass ANY laws against breeders or ANY laws at ALL.
I don't know ANY rescue that has done that and I do know a lot.
I think before you make such claims, you need to get a list of rescue groups and then go to
www.guidestar.org and take a look at their 990s to see how much they use to "feed the machine that's pumping out rescue dogs".
Not thinking you are very well informed about what rescues *really* do. We never have a profit...EVER...we bust our backsides to get the veterinary bills paid for the pups that have been abandoned and/or neglected and/or abused. I can tell you that our members often lay out thousands of dollars and then hope to recoup it. We have a very dedicated group that does everything we can to help as many pups as we can.
You are right about reputable breeders not being the problem, but don't blame rescues for what the disreputable breeders are doing.