Sentences with phrase «when dog auctions»

«Rescue Village stands firmly opposed to inhumane treatment of all animals and works for the day when dog auctions are banned and puppy - mill type breeding is regulated by laws which prevent abuse, cruelty and neglect.»

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When «spent,» a dog is likely to be sold at auction for under five dollars.

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.

American Kennel Club investigator Keith Russell drew applause at a Clermont County Kennel Club, (Ohio) meeting recently when he explained the new humane policy drafted by AKC and told the audience that the registry would suspend privileges of any breeder who donated a dog or puppy to a raffle or auction.

When dogs are no longer of use to the breeder, they're sold at auction or killed.

When NMDR goes to auctions now, they are not bidding on the dogs in the auction setting.

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.

When we go to auction under the label of rescue and we are willing to spend whatever it takes for dogs, we have accomplished two things.

The only time we have taken a dog at auction is when we have the assurance that a miller is going out of business.

But even when they don't want a particular dog that's being auctioned, they might try to stop a rescue from getting it.

Karam worries because she has been told that when the Amish breeders attending the auction know that a rescue, rather than a fellow breeder, is trying to buy the dog, they bid against the rescue just to jack up the price of the dog.

When you bid on an auction item or click the «Donate Money» button, you're joining SNPLA in our mission to save LA cats and dogs.

Years ago, when more commercial breeders existed, rescuers attended auctions to buy surplus dogs that seemed to be everywhere, longtime auction participants say.

When Last Chance for Animals and Rocky Mountain Animal Defense heard the dogs would be sent to auction, they offered to pick them up.

It started in early May, when Prairie Bark Kennels decided to sell many of its 250 dogs in advance of relocating, according to the seller statement filed with the auction company.

When dogs are rescued from puppy mills — whether it's through an auction or more traditional rescue — the dogs are usually not in the best of shape.

When lifelong animal lover Theresa Strader heard about a massive dog auction in Missouri in 2007, she thought she would check out the scene and adopt a pet or two.

When the group returned to Pennsylvania hours after the purchase, state SPCA officials prepared charges against six of the 12 Lancaster County breeders who sent dogs to the auction.

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.

And her piece features high - dollar transactions, when her own statistics show that the average price for dogs at auctions was $ 465, a price that seems similar to me to auction prices from 10 - 15 years ago.

When no longer of use, the adult dogs are killed, sold at auction or sold / donated to others.

Some breeders kill the adult dogs and cats when they can no longer breed and are no longer profitable (psychologically and physically damaged, these animals are not «considered» pets); some sell the adult animals at auctions to receive a «salvageable value» for the investment made in the animal (similar to livestock); and some give away their adult dogs or cats for free or at a discounted price to rescue groups and consumers (freeing them up financially so they don't have to pay for the up - keep of an older animal).

Famous for creating outsized fabricated objects, Koons broke auction records last year when his whimsical reflective - surface «Balloon Dog (Orange)» sold for more than $ 58 million.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

The auction record for a Jeff Koons was set in 2013 when Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 — 2000, sold for $ 58.4 million at Christie's New York.

His orange «Balloon Dog» became the most expensive work sold by a living artist when it was auctioned for $ 58 million at Christie's last fall.