If you buy a dog from a pet store not only are you supporting millers and brokers, you are also taking away a good home from a dog in rescue or a shelter. You're not rescuing one dog in the pet shop but practically giving a death sentence or life in a cage to more pups in mills and the other dogs in rescue stay in foster care.
Also if you buy anything from shops that sell dogs you are supporting mills. I will never spend my money there.
Here in Vegas it is still legal to sell dogs here in shops. Yesterday they had a meeting at city hall to ban the practice. Who but a franchise owner of Petland said pet shop owners would lose money if dogs sales were banned. Oh boo hoo! Find something else to sell to make money. They love it bc the ROI is insane. Buy a pup from a broker or mill for a few hundred dollars and turn around and sell it for $1000-4000! |