No -— “the Bubbas down South” are actually really good at spaying and neutering their pets and working digs. I should know -— I have practiced here in small town Texas for 35 years. The puppy mills are in the the midwest mostly. The dogs that are being transported and sold in the northeast by rescue groups are mostly adult dogs, not puppies.
Puppy mills are not what I am talking about. I am talking about all the “rescue” dogs sent to the North from the South.
Somehow those dogs start out as puppies too and if the Bubbas were so good at neutering and spaying their region wouldn’t be our primary source of “rescues” at this point.