Sentences with phrase «buying dogs at auction»

The premise of this story is that people are buying dogs at auction from breeders in an effort to «rescue» them.

Animal - welfare groups, including the ASPCA, HSUS, say rescuers are misguided in buying dogs at auction because the money they pay only encourages more breeding on a commercial scale.

The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) applauds the Washington Post exposé by Kim Kavin (April 11, 2018) detailing the corrupt practices of rescues and shelters buying dogs at auction from the same breeders they disparage as puppy mills, then transporting them cross-country where they market these same dogs as «rescues.»

The group also said in an email to The Post that buying dogs at auction «goes against how we operate at Bailing Out Benji.»

People have been sucked in to the practice of rescuers buying dogs at auction and are quick to donate and adopt, with no awareness that they are making matters much worse by doing so.

Most rescues which buy dogs at auction see nothing wrong with it and are proud of their behavior.

Many animal welfare organizations have an issue with rescue groups buying dogs at auctions.

The kennel owners will take that money that is paid to buy a dog at auction and use it to buy more dogs and perpetuate the cycle of misery.

Never buy a dog at auction.

This morning, The Washington Post published an article that I wrote about rescuers who buy dogs at auctions.

Buying dogs at auctions is wrong.

Not exact matches

But if we want it to stop, we must not buy mill dogs at auctions, in stores, from newspaper ads or on street corners.

Although we are all very sad for the dogs who are sold at consignment auctions, it is wrong to buy them.

Sell puppies or adults through third parties, including but not limited to: online brokers, newspapers, auctions, pet shops, catalog houses, laboratories, dog - fighting operations, or any wholesale dealer in dogs (a dealer being a person who regularly buys dogs for re-sale at a profit), or to any person who sells to any of the above.

«Selling DOGS at Auction flies in the face of» Buy from a Responsible Breeder» and makes the average pet owner question the worth of American Kennel Club registration.

About 50 of the 86 groups that The Post linked to auction bidders made no mention of auctions on their Web pages, 20 described what they were doing as «puppy mill rescue» or «auction rescue,» and 10 mentioned words such as «bought» or «purchased» at auction but did not say online how much they paid per dog.

Bidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $ 2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation's two government - regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents The Washington Post obtained from an industry insider.

Strader is among those who say buying dogs for high prices at auction is not a form of rescue at all: «People who call this puppy mill rescue?

rescues and shelters have been seen at dog auctions buying litters and pregnant dogs, taking them back to their shelter or rescue, make up some sad story and then sell the puppies and mother dogs.

At this auction last fall, representatives of at least a dozen rescue groups donned baseball caps — so they wouldn't accidentally bid against each other — and bought as many dogs as they could afford to keep them from going to another puppy milAt this auction last fall, representatives of at least a dozen rescue groups donned baseball caps — so they wouldn't accidentally bid against each other — and bought as many dogs as they could afford to keep them from going to another puppy milat least a dozen rescue groups donned baseball caps — so they wouldn't accidentally bid against each other — and bought as many dogs as they could afford to keep them from going to another puppy mill.

Bidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $ 2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation's two government - regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents The Post obtained from an industry insider.

The newspaper's investigation found that rescue operations, traditionally the nemesis of puppy mills, have been buying dogs from breeders at auction, using donations from their supporters to buy dogs in what it described as a «nationwide shadow market.»

Now Monroe has two dogs she's bought at the auction, and feels the protesters and the rescuers have come to an understanding: «We are all on the same side; we want to put an end to this, even though our strategies are different.»

The article reports that it is likely the success of rescue groups in reducing the numbers of dogs needing adoption that has led to an increase in such organizations turning to buying dogs offered at auctions by commercial kennels: «As the number of commercial kennels has decreased, so has the number of shelter animals killed in the United States: A February 2017 estimate put the total for dogs alone at 780,000, a steep drop from estimates for all shelter animals that were as high as 20 million in the 1970s.»

These days, only about 10 percent of Strader's dogs are bought at auction, but it was a mill - dog auction that changed Strader's life.

The dogs bought and sold at auction are kept confined in cages for their entire breeding lives ~ never getting to run or play with toys or experience affection and companionship.»

Pennsylvania law is broad in prohibiting with few exceptions: «It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell, offer to sell, transfer, barter, trade, raffle, auction or rent a dog at any public place in this commonwealth».

Some critics of rescue buying of breeding stock at auction argue that the entire practice of selling breeding stock to rescues is a fraud, because puppy mills can just hold some puppies back when they want more breeding stock, so they have no need to buy breeder dogs at auction.

Amanda Giese, founder of Panda Paws Rescue in Washougal, Washington, posted several Facebook videos after spending $ 18,140 buying 32 dogs at the Southwest auction on Feb. 18, 2017, an invoice shows.

Texas kills an estimated 232,000 shelter pets per year and this Texas «rescue group» is buying pregnant dogs from breeders at auctions in Missouri?

What is happening to these dogs after being bought for so much money at the auctions?