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.
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.