What are we supposed to do with all the MALL/PET STORE dogs????

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MUD WRANGLER brings up a good point......he....answered the question below and answered what are we supposed to do with the mall dogs???

They are dogs, that need a home..........etc...........

What are we suppposed to do?


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Answer 1

No you don't "write them off"

You wait them out. Eventually they end up in rescues and shelters that call rescues to help when needed. As long as you purchase them there is still a demand. They may not get into rescue fast enough for you but if you wait they will. As long as the petstores can get a buck they will continue to pay for them via puppymills and backyard breeders.

Not to worry petstores will not "kill" them theirselves. They turn them over to vets and shelters to do it and there is always someone ready to dial up a rescue.

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Not true shelters have to take them if they are county run. Vets have to take them if they are paid to. Shelters make their money via government and adoptions. Those petstore designers are a hot commodities. Everybody wants the "designer breeds". Most of the time we already have those patient people waiting and they never end up being publicized.

Ive got three "bogle" puppies in my house right now that Im just waiting to get old enough to alter. Many of them we get when their "ailments" become visable before they are sold. We treat and adopt them. We have three shitz something at the vet and a pug (pug is already going to one of our youngest volunteers) All because people listened and didn't pay for them.

Small dogs and no matter the mix are always a hot commodity. Highly adoptable in a matter of a week. Just picking the home thats best. No rescue or shelter will pass that up.

Answer 2

We adopt the ones that really need a home...the ones in shelters. Most pet store puppies end up in shelters as it is, whether they grow too old and no one wants to buy them, or the person that bought one gets tired of it or can't take care of it anymore, which has happened.

It's a chain reaction: people stop buying from pet stores, pet stores stop buying from puppymills, puppymills suffer (abomnible wrath, one can hope).

This past weekend my hubby and I were doing Christmas shopping, and there was such a commotion in the pet store that we went in just to see what was up. Apparently they had just gotten a whole bunch of puppies in that morning, in time for Christmas (ugh!). As the (ignorant) shoppers oohed and aahed, the employees were writing the breed names or if it were a mix, the price, and some other things. Apparently every puppy was 'non-shedding', and the lowest price I saw was $250 (they also had mixed kittens going for the same price). As we walked past the employees when we left, I said (loud enough for them to hear) that by claiming the pups were 'non-shedding' was false advertising and the place was a disgrace.

Answer 3

They are innocent animals that do deserve good homes BUT, if you or any one else buys these dogs from pet stores or from the mall another puppy will have to be born to replace the one that was sold. How about that?? Did you think of that?

So if no one buys the puppies from pet stores or a mall ect then the store will shut down because they will have no customers and the mills will be put out of business eventually.

But everyone must stop buying from the pet stores.

Once the pet stores are shut down and the puppy mills are shut down then the rescuers or humane society will come in and care for the dogs and they will find good homes for them.

Answer 4

Lets do some math,each year in the US alone approx. 500,000 dogs are sold at pet stores . Another 250,000 + are shipped to pet stores but die on the journey to the pet store.
So in one year if EVERYBODY stopped buying these dogs ,then the mills would stop sending them to pet stores. The pet stores only buy more dogs to replace the dogs they've sold. If they dont sell any, then they simply wouldn't buy anymore. Yes all dogs deserve a loving home but when you "rescue one" your just adding to the problem. Personally I would rather euthanize 500,000 dogs once then have these dogs enter shelters, have the breeding dogs continue to live their lives in cages. But it takes a combined effort , everyone must boycott these stores that includes not buying anything from a store that sells live dogs and cats. If you "rescue " a dog from a petstore then it helps the individual dog but harms the overall cause which is to stop puppymills.

Answer 5

So you're saying better to kill off well over 1 million dogs per year to save a hundred thousand? It's very sad but if we find homes for them, millers & bybs will have no reason to stop producing more and more.


1/2 of the dogs IN the puppy shops will go to shelters if they aren't sold anyway so you would be adopting a slightly older pup than you would have purchased anyway! The only difference... NOT SUPPORTING the criminals that abuse these helpless animals.

Answer 6

Not only should we not buy the puppies as this just creates a demand (and therefore supply), but we should not buy anything from their store in terms of supplies. Actually, it probably wouldn't hurt to write to the malls themselves and let them know of the atrocities of puppy mills and say you will be boycotting their entire mall. Unfortunately, no matter how you slice it, buying those pups just creates more misery on down the line. It's an all over bad deal. :-( I would also suggest to those stories that instead of selling puppies, ask if any local rescue groups would like to come down on Saturdays or whatever to have adoption days.

Answer 7

We are supposed to NOT buy them because if we buy them we are just supporting puppy mills, giving them money to produce more puppies to fill the pet shops. We have to look at the big picture. If we continue to buy puppies from malls/pet shops, there will ALWAYS be puppy mills behind them, keeping dogs in HORRIBLE condition, just using them for breeding purposes. If we stop buying them, they have no reason to produce them, and hopefully they will go out of business.

The best thing we can do is educate as many people we know about pet stores and puppy mills, and encourage adoption. I work at a vet clinic, and we just had a puggle puppy come in yesterday who was rescued from a puppy mill. This poor pup had scars on her legs, and her ears were chewed off by the other dogs kept in the cage with her. Luckily this puppy mill was shut down, and that is our ultimate goal, to get the puppy mills to shut down.

Answer 8

This is a great question. Bottom line, we are not supposed to support the puppy mill breeders. Stop supporting, and maybe one day enough people will get screwed over that no one will ever purchase from a pet store. Too many people's emotions are played with. My sister suffered for a long time because her puppy died at only 19 months.

STOP SUPPORTING PET STORES OR BACK YARD BREEDERS PERIOD. DO YOUR FREAKING HOMEWORK PEOPLE!

Answer 9

It's kind of a Catch 22. If you buy a dog from a pet store you are giving the puppymills a reason to keep producing.

But....if you don't buy a dog from a pet store, it is still in need of a loving home.

That's a tough dilema. I would still only get a dog from a shelter. There are many more dogs in shelters than in pet stores. At least pet stores are temperature controlled.

Answer 10

The chain has to be broken somewhere. If the gullible public would stop the demand and purchasing of these pups the pet stores would stop the demand from mills and the mills won't want to be stuck with what they mass produce. Somewhere the existing pups will suffer but the only way to clean up this mess is to stop the demand and break the chain! Stay out of pet stores!