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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  The other part of this that has not been discussed is the sale of dogs to class B dealers. These are people who sell animals for research labs. In many cases they want purebred animals so they can see the reaction to different animals. |
About 4 years ago I watched an HBO documentary on a kennel, in Missouri or Arkansas, I think. It was a guy that went undercover and worked for the kennel while secretly filming. The kennel owner was a class b dealer and bought dogs at auction for reselling to medical research. I know the show has been discussed here before.
This show was my introduction to a small bit of the dog business world. A few months after it aired was when I got Ruby (my first dog). At the time I didn't really know anything about puppymills or how people liked to breed the tiny dogs, because their puppies sell for more.
But, because of that documentary, I did know breeding her was never a consideration (even though uninformed people would ask me about breeding her) the thought a puppy I might have been responsible for bringing into this world, would ever go to medical research, made up my mind real quick!
It took every bit of constraint I had not to turn around and slap the woman at the auction here that was buying for medical research!