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Our shelters are loaded with the usual suspects...pit bulls...and no one wants them. Ive spoken with several breeders and specific rescues, and yes, they have more applications than they can fill.
I said that backwards. I should have said, I hope the supply of dogs doesn't increase at the shelters and people who get a puppy keep that puppy instead of dumping it at the pound, and people stop having unplanned oops litters.
This was the same thing we encountered, when looking for a dog. We really wanted to do the rescue or shelter circuit...but the dogs available tended to be pits, lab mixes, hounds or elderly chichuahuas.
And so many people who were trying to rehome their pets were trying to charge 'rehoming fees'. And I always thought "you're going to traumatize your pet and charge me for the experience".
We ended up with a puppy from a breeder. I caught some grief for it here, but...oh well.
This was the same thing we encountered, when looking for a dog. We really wanted to do the rescue or shelter circuit...but the dogs available tended to be pits, lab mixes, hounds or elderly chichuahuas.
And so many people who were trying to rehome their pets were trying to charge 'rehoming fees'. And I always thought "you're going to traumatize your pet and charge me for the experience".
We ended up with a puppy from a breeder. I caught some grief for it here, but...oh well.
I fall in the “adopt don’t shop” camp for myself, but won’t judge friends (or internet strangers) that go through an ethical breeder. No one should be giving you grief. It’s gotten tough out there. I was briefly debating adopting a second dog, but it’s impossible. I guess I could get some puppy mill/pet store dog, but that is a choice I refuse to make.
This was the same thing we encountered, when looking for a dog. We really wanted to do the rescue or shelter circuit...but the dogs available tended to be pits, lab mixes, hounds or elderly chichuahuas.
And so many people who were trying to rehome their pets were trying to charge 'rehoming fees'. And I always thought "you're going to traumatize your pet and charge me for the experience".
We ended up with a puppy from a breeder. I caught some grief for it here, but...oh well.
Same here, puppies in Washington are rare. People wait for rescues to bring them here, so it doesn’t say much about your chances of getting one. There are plenty of rescue groups on FB, and the attitude seems to be adopt a dog, any dog and you’ll be wonderful for saving a dogs life. I get that to a point, but sometimes you have to be selective.
I also went with a breeder this time around, but it was the only thing that really worked. Good breeders keep the lines of breeds going and there’s nothing wrong with that. Backyard breeders, pet stores and puppy mills deserve to get shut down.
Many of the available dogs in rescues or offered privately for adoption originated in puppy mills. Not that they don't need and deserve good homes, but puppy mill dogs often come with health issues, so people need to be prepared for vet bills and possible heartbreak.
I'm seeing a lot of available older puppies right now that were probably Christmas gifts that lost their appeal when the reality of caring for a dog set in.
I'm over the "adopt don't shop" noise. Although I continue to agree with it in principle, it's become trendy to virtue signal that your dog is a "rescue." And where I live, the available dogs are older pits, "lab mixes" — which is a euphemism for pit bull mix — working breeds, and Chihuahuas. My purebred American Eskimo isn't taking a home away from a shelter dog.
A lot of these breeds would cease to exist if it weren't for ethical breeders.
Our shelters are loaded with the usual suspects...pit bulls...and no one wants them. Ive spoken with several breeders and specific rescues, and yes, they have more applications than they can fill.
I wonder why there are so many pit bulls and mixed. I would have thought the desire for a pit would have worn off by now. I see a lot of pit bulls in my area. These are dogs in good homes, probably many rescued, IDK. My nephew and his wife have three. I'm not sure if they were rescues or not.
I have had a couple Pit bulls in the past that were rescues, they have since passed. Unfortunately, I have never had any problem with "finding" dogs others dont want without going through an actual rescue. Seldom puppies though.
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