*Also need newspaper donations
Our dogs love to sleep on Kuranda Dog beds, but we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price for a another dog to sleep in comfort, please donate a Kuranda dog bed.
Our dogs and cats love to sleep on Kuranda beds, but we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price for a another dog or cat to sleep in comfort, please donate a Kuranda bed.
We do purchase most of our rescues from puppymill auctions.
To those of you who believe that buying animals from these auctions is only putting money in to the hands of the puppy millers, please read on.
If you have ever been to a puppy mill, you will understand the horrors these dogs live through. The dogs that go up for auction WILL be sold. SOMEONE will be making money off of the sale. It doesn't matter if we are there or not. Prices are not pushed higher because of the presence of a rescue. Other bidders (just like ourselves and the other rescues that attend) usually have a set spending limit and will bid accordingly. The only difference is where that animal will go once it is sold.
If a rescue wins the bid, that dog is free of the system from that day on. Not only are you rescuing that one dog, but all 67,000 puppies it (and it's puppies) could have produced in the next five years (figures come from the HSUS website for possible births in five years).
If another puppy mill wins the bid, the seller is still making money, but that dog stays in the puppy-mill cycle. Most of these dogs should never have been bred in the first place. Chances are these dogs will breed until they die or can't produce puppies anymore.
Doesn't it make more sense to get a few out of the cycle now? Imagine how much shelters and rescues spend on the cost involved in caring for and placing the unwanted puppies produced if another puppy mill gets them?
We've heard a lot of people say that these millers are just selling their old stock to buy new dogs. WRONG. Most of the dogs at these sell-out auctions are less than four years old! Many are between two and twenty-four months old.
Buying dogs at these auctions is the only way to get them out of the cycle humanely, legally, and with the least amount of profit for those selling.
This is what it is like at a Puppy Mill dog auction.
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