[gemy]

I have not experienced this bias first hand. But I do think if you want to source your dog from a shelter or a breed specific rescue that is great. But it does not make you a more worthy dog owner than one who buys from a reputable breeder. Your worth if you will as a dog owner is how you treat your dog over their lifetime - it does not come from where you found your dog.

I am a purebreed dog breeder and I Promote purebred dogs from good breeders. I believe that my owners are a cut above the average person who on a whim go to a pet store - or to a shelter to buy/adopt a dog.

I believe that good breeders do not contribute to the dog overpopulation problem. Poor breeders do. Be they commercial breeders - or puppy mills etc etc.

It is hard to figure out why there are so many dogs surrendered. There is no oversight and reporting of factual number from all sources across the country. There is no auditing of these numbers to ascertain the veracity of the numbers reported. There is no reliable sourcing of where and from whom the dog was bred by.....