I wonder if these weird international dog rescues [as if we are short of dogs to rescue here] are just “expenses” a nonprofit’s officials can deduct ... in order to get free trips to exotic places like Nepal, and people don’t notice because they are too busy going “Awwwww, puppies!”
I’m betting they are.
Its their private donation money, its not government money.
Plus they actually do save the dogs.
As long as charities and resuces are above board and not pulling shady stuff on their donors and volunteers, their goals are fine goals.
Something isn’t just right about this. There is some money somewhere through donations.
“as if we are short of dogs to rescue here”
Our shelter (I volunteered there) was seriously short of dogs to rescue 20 years ago, it’s worse now. We used to “import” dogs from other regions if we had too few (having too few adoptable dogs effects fund raising). Any puppy was instantly gone, we had a waiting list for them.
I’m for this turn of events. Rescuing dogs from Mexico and Central America has been going on for some time but with nobody being notified that the dogs weren’t sourced in the US. As long as people know where the dogs are from, I don’t see what the problem is.
On the minus side, the big question is what the adoption fee is. I know a guy who spent several hundred dollars to “rescue” a Chinese German Shepherd. My guess was that he really just paid for a Chinese puppy mill dog. Oh well, he has his “rescue” dog and gets to virtue signal.