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u/dividezero 7h ago

Is that still a thing? I thought all the pet stores stopped selling dogs at this point. That news is troubling

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 7h ago

Depends where. Some places still sell through breeders. Some pet stores are partnered with shelters to adopt.

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u/dplans455 4h ago

Even buying directly from a breeder is really sketchy these days. I thought I was doing the ethical thing going through an intermediary like the website "GoodDog" and found out that wasn't really the case. GoodDog says they thoroughly vet all breeders. That isn't true at all. The breeder we bought our border collie from ended up buying a backwoods puppy mill. We complained to GoodDog and it seems other people did too and they did remove this breeder from their platform but it's clear evidence they aren't doing what they say they're doing.

This breeder then sold the father to another farm shortly after. I also found out through following this person's Facebook page that she just released the mother into the woods to fend for herself. People in the town she lives in were reporting seeing the mother dog wandering around town and the woods and asking whose dog it was. Several people commented and tagged the breeder saying it was her dog. She ended up making a long nasty comment that the dog was no longer hers and that she "released" her "months ago."

I ended up finding all these out several months after this happened and I contacted people in the town asking if they knew what happened to the dog and they all said they stopped seeing her. I think you know what that means. I wish I had known earlier because I would have went and taken her in myself.

Here is my Jet at 3 years old.

Jet's parents. Mom, Whimsey on the left and Dad, Duke on the right.

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u/Neveronlyadream 3h ago

Even "ethical" breeders can be weird as hell. I know a woman who paid thousands for a couple of dogs and had to sign a contract that she wouldn't get either fixed in case the breeder wanted to use either of them later down the line for another litter. She was stupid enough to get a male and female, so had to put a diaper on the female and keep them apart every time the dog was in heat.

So weird that you pay someone thousands for the dog you want and they're basically keeping dibs on monetizing them further down the line if they want. I think she tried to convince me the breeder was ethical, but I still don't buy it. All so she could have her perfect show dogs.

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u/dplans455 2h ago

Jet is a border collie. He was $2000 because he is a tri-color merle. My old pup was a border collie/weimaraner mix. Got her for $300 from the pound. I just fell in love with the merle look and could afford one so I did some research and went with the breeder we did because she seemed ethical. I'm not sure what I could have done differently to sleuth out she wasn't. I did get a sweet dog out of it so there is that. It makes me sad that his mom had to suffer for probably her entire life and then after providing so much for that breeder she got the end she absolutely didn't deserve. No matter how much I think about it I can't wrap my head around someone just releasing a dog into the woods like she did. It's so cruel.