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There are no mandatory spay/ neuter laws in Canada.
There are most certainly puppy mills in Canada. However, they are totally unregulated and unregistered so that no one even knows how many there are or where they are. As in the States, they sell, usually via a broker, to a pet store. And yes, you can go to a pet store to buy a puppy/ cat in Canada,
Canada routinely kills an enormous number of pets that wind up in public shelters. They too have an overload of unwanted dogs. It's no doggy utopia.
Strangely enough, we Americans are shifting our unwanted dogs from places where there are a glut of them to places where there is less supply. At the same time, we are also importing many tens of thousands of dogs into this country to be sold.
Satos, Puerto Rican street dogs,are sent regularly sent to New England, Mexico ships in tens of thousands of puppies each year and and a ridiculous number of more puppies come from places like Hungary and Romania.
All while American dogs die.
No easy answers to any of the problems unfortunately. But we have to get past this silliness that Canada, New England , etc.have some wonderful spay/ neuter laws and that is why they can take unwanted dogs. No, they don't. I live in New England- not a spay/ neuter law in sight. What some areas do have is maybe better education, different attitudes about how to care for dogs and their place in a family.
It's not just international transport. Groups in Los Angeles routinely ship out Chihuahuas to places like the Pacific NW where they are in short supply.
And yes, it is sad. Here it's a cultural thing---not spaying/neutering chihuahuas.
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