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America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed. Pets – and staff – are at breaking point
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't expect this to be a popular opinion, but by all means, adopt the pets created by unethical breeders instead of buying ones from breeders who are ethical, cautious, involved, and caring.
All these people who are vehemently "adopt, don't shop" never like to have it pointed out that they are adopting puppy mill dogs who need to be rescued. Those dogs do need to be rescued, but we should support good breeding practices at the same time. Responsible breeders should not be lumped in with the puppy mill trash. They should be what we aspire the future of dog breeding (and buying/adopting) to be.
This argument pretends that you can’t support shutting down the mills while adopting. It also ignores the stray population and revoking of adult dogs, which is the biggest burden on shelters.
No. My argument is exactly that you should support adopting dogs while better enforcing laws against puppy mills.
Those edge cases that you mentioned are the ones that shelters should be there for (those revoked adult dogs usually didn't come from proper breeders).
All the downvoters proving that it's about being holier than thou and not about the health of the dogs. Good breeding leads to healthy dogs.