Posted on 04/23/2018 6:22:06 PM PDT by Norski
Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn
An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.
The result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the breeders, two groups that have long disparaged each other. The rescuers call many breeders heartless operators of inhumane “puppy mills” and work to ban the sale of their dogs in brick-and-mortar pet stores. The breeders call “retail rescuers” hypocritical dilettantes who hide behind nonprofit status while doing business as unregulated, online pet stores.
But for years, they have come together at dog auctions where no cameras are allowed, with rescuers enriching breeders and some breeders saying more puppies are being bred for sale to the rescuers.
Bidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation’s two government-regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents . . .
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Am going to say it now I HATE DOG RESCUES. Nothing more than people adopting dogs with a 501c. They have no intention of adopting those dogs out they just pretend to.
They certainly know how to turn off adoptive families... some want to be able to drop in and visit the dog for the rest of its life. Really? They want visitation rights? Only if they pay for the food and vet care for its lifetime, otherwise they can pound sand.
I’d love to adopt a dog, but I have no intention of adopting a human Snoopy too.
“Really? They want visitation rights? Only if they pay for the food and vet care for its lifetime, otherwise they can pound sand.”
You have no idea how creepy some of them can be!! Or maybe you do, I donno. One rescue I spoke with said they wanted their name mind you THEIR NAME also on the microchip I would put in the dog because “in case the dog ran out to California they would go and get it” I said “What??! NO if the dog runs off to California I WILL GO AND GET IT!” I then wanted to say “Dumb ass why do you think I’m getting the chip?” but I didn’t.
Yea they want to make house inspections and all that two and three years after you’ve adopted the dog, oh hell no! You worried okay my city has a Dog Warden call him and have him stop by and do a welfare check other than that have a good day my business with you is D O N E!
These people need a shrink or maybe a long term stay at at nervous hospital with Nurse Ratched.
...”Rescue groups generally are organized as nonprofit charities and raise money through fundraisers, adoption fees, grants and bequests. Shelters and rescue groups connected to the auction bidders have annual revenue that runs from $12,000 to $1.5 million, and they charge adoption fees that range from $50 to $1,850 per dog. The individuals who run these organizations receive salaries as high as $78,000, but many receive no compensation, according to tax forms.
The rescue movement used to include only shelters, but today it has an expansive network of home-based nonprofits, too. The noticeable increase in the number of such rescuers at the Missouri auctions began around 2005, about the same time that the nation’s rescue movement began to evolve. That is also about the time that self-described “puppy mill rescue” began to move into the mainstream.” . . .
Yep. Creepy
Some people I used to work for adopted a pair of dogs and had to sign a 25 page legal adoption. In addition to the conditions noted, the group may remove the dogs at anytime for any reason. They have an animal control officer working with them who seizes dogs and then provides them to this group to adopt out. I feel the whole thing is highly suspect.
I ‘picked up’ Dieter, a 14 YO Belgian Malinois when he was 2YO in a small town 80 miles from my home.
I have spent the last 12 years ‘untraining’ him.
He just about has ‘it’...
At 14 he has me on a short leash.
A lot of horse rescues run the same racket unfortunately.
Oh I know very well how “Rescues” have moved in on the local animal shelters.
You see after my beloved Siberian Husky died want to adopt adopt another right? Twice, mind you twice I’ve tried an can’t you know why? Each time a damn rescue has sunk their paws into it before I could adopt it!!
One was my local shelter, when I complained rescues cherry pick the best dogs out here is what a shelter worker said. “Well the rescue who is taking the Siberian Husky is also taking one of our very sick dogs that needs thousands in medical care that we can’t afford. and Yes Miss you are correct in that they seem to ‘cherry pick’ the good ones but by taking the Siberian Husky that gives the less desirable dogs a chance to be seen.”
Well my local animal shelter you made your deal with the devil, I guess you had to. So I’ll make mine. I’ll bypass you and just go to a dog breeder or an Amish Puppy mill and get the dog I want. Does it make your job harder? Oh well. I want a Siberian Husky and that is what I’m going to get not matter what I have to do to get it, do I make myself clear?
At the end of the day I don’t want to hear people tell me “use your animal shelter for pets” my animal shelter sold me out so F*** you animal shelter
“The rescuers come in here with more money than the breeders.”
Hank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland Sales
Okay get this some of these rescues won’t let you adopt if you are out of state too! Like one I found in Kentucky you can only adopt from it if you in KY IN and I think OH. Now you figure they take in dogs form other states, I know the rescue my shelter was sending dogs to was in Penn. so that gives you some idea. The dogs in this rescue could have come from W.Va but yet I can’t do and adopt from them! Sorry for my language but that is bull shit.
another scam
I’m very grateful for the rescue organization from which we got our dog. They called once to see how things were going and that was it. All rescue places aren’t the same.
You have no idea what kind of nightmare this has been. Am so glad this article was posted because it proves all long I was correct and these rescues, the majority are nothing more than people adopting and keeping the animals under a 501c. Now shelters are getting into the act and selling out.
Oh well I’ll by way of the puppy will and give them all a what for. I’m so angry now I could just spit! Dirty bastards all of them.
We supported a rescue operation of a rogue Cavalier breeder who simply bought back her own dogs at auction. It was insane. I realized then that the rescuers were only feeding the breeder’s activity.
There’s got to be some in-between here, but a good start would be for quote-unquote “rescuers” to appreciate that when you want more of something you subsidize it, and when you want less, you sanction it.
I have my Leo from the pound. He is of very questionable heritage. My other dog Marisol needed company so we got Leo. My wife looked at many dogs at the pound and Leo just gave her the look that said, “take me home please.” She took Leo home. Leo escaped from my fenced in backyard in only one day. He ran around the neighborhood for a few hours and I gave up on catching him. About sundown he was on my front porch asking to be let in. He knew that life would be good at my home. He and Marisol are wonderful friendly dogs. Both are mutts. Neither are the least bit aggressive. If someone tried to hurt my wife or I they would lay down their lives for us.
Mutts are good dogs.
ps
Bought a new fence. More than a few bucks. It was a good investment for my wonderful Leo and Marisol. Sometimes I let them in the house with me on the sofa. They cover me up with 80 pounds of love each. I like my dogs a lot.
Lot of money in rescues.
It gets even weirder: http://www.animals24-7.org/2017/03/23/the-upside-down-mind-of-a-rescue-group/
This man will be missed:
http://www.animals24-7.org/2018/02/13/retired-bob-rohde-personified-your-dumb-friends-for-45-years/
This was the way things should be run now.
I’m very sorry it’s been a nightmare for you.
This national obsession with animals is plain nuts. All this is about is people who can’t say no to a dreamy eyed pet and an industry capitalizing on it. Some people don’t need pets and then they are demonized by a brainwashed populace. There, I said it.
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