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My issue is that it’s not like she wanted a Lab, say under 2, that there’s literally 100s of in rescues that kept saying “No, you can’t have our dogs!” It’s that OP used her desire for exact mix, male, must be young puppy, and it must be right now, to then bash rescue groups.
I guess I just don’t see a bunch of acceptable to OP puppies sitting in rescues that all turned her down. So I think it’s a bit unfair of her to come on bashing all rescues for not giving her something they don’t have?
I also find the OP’s lack of willingness to answer questions about what, if any, health info she got on the parents, if she even saw the parents, and where they kept troubling. I feel it’s a bit of playing ostrich, Sticking ones head in the sand so they can pretend to think they didn’t support one of the bad people, just one of the good ones.[/QUOTE]
At this point, why would she.
As many folks she had particular ideas of the pet she wanted, so what does it matter what kind it was.
She ran into enough rescue attitude, and probably the suggestions that, oh, we don’t have a cattle jack, how about a a peekapoo…or a newfie mastif.
I come to detest the dog scene: you either have to buy the super specialized, from championship bloodlines purebred, or accept the mutt the local shelter has.
There is no gray area acceptable.
But like with horses I come to believe, there is more out there. People who care while breeding, even if they don’t spend a fortune on health tests.
I mean, in the olden days, they managed without that as well, like with horses, keeping track of the traits.
Kind of like the idea that one has to have 5-10k of emergency funds for vet bills handy…regardless of age or condition of the animal.
But it’s cool, I suppose, price the middle class out of ownership, penalize the lower class, then the top tier is ripe for the picking.
Ownership - done!
