I know exactly how you feel. I try to avoid pet stores that sell puppies because I always want to pick them up and rescue them. It is puppymill country around here, we've got tons of puppy millers and it is just so sad that this continues to go on every day. You want to save them but at the same time you know that if you do you are taking a chance on getting a really sick puppy plus you free up the room for another puppy from a puppymill to take its place. It is a lose - lose situation.
And you know what else bugs me. Is that like you said, the petstores price these puppies so high when you are getting a puppymill puppy who may be really ill. So you are paying alot of money for a poorly bred sick puppy. Yet you can get one for half that price from a good reputable breeder. I don't get it?? Do people not know of breeders or are there never any in the area?? |