«Generally, you are just giving the mill operators more money to purchase and breed
more dogs at auction.
Not exact matches
This is about female
dogs that will be sold
at auction when they fail to produce profitably any
more, when many have lost their teeth, fur and even eyes by the ripe old age of six.
The
dogs sold
at auction above were sold to other breeders who will continue the cycle of repeated breeding for
more years.
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.
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She commented that the
dog could be sold online for
more than the
dogs were going for
at this
auction.
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.
At the Missouri
auction site, they found
more than 600
dogs, most of them in wire cages the size of rabbit hutches, stacked three cages high.
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.
Reciprocally, auctioneers seek
more dogs of those breeds to offer
at auctions.