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Originally Posted by MyPemCharlie
If we can put the pet shops out of business, the brokers and largest puppy mills will follow due to lack of demand.
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Chris, there is the flaw in your logic. It is not the retail suppliers, or the brokers or the commercial kennels driving the market of demand; it is the consumer, the puppy buyers. In the time you have been on GoCorgi how many threads have you seen asking advice on if a corgi might be right for them or how or where to get a corgi puppy? In spite of all the recommendations, suggestions, advice on making a responsible, educated decisions; the majority of the time what is the outcome? They go to the first place they see an ad for puppies for sale, order from internet broker or internet store or some kitchen breeder who thinks everybody should have a corgi. Nine out of ten times, that is what happens. But once in a while, the advice does reach someone.
Until people begin putting half as much thought into adding a puppy or a dog to their home as they give buying the latest techno toy, game system, refrigerator or car; then there is always going to be a market for the pet store puppies and the brokers and commercial kennels will stay in business along with the kitchen breeders, internet store fronts, byb's, etc. Responsible Breeders cannot, nor would they really want to fill the demand for purebred puppies.
Shutting down pet stores and/or brokers and/or commercial kennels is not going to address where the problem really lies, and that is on the consumer/puppy buyer end. Shelters are full because of owner irresponsibility, retention and relinquishment problems, not because of a surplus on the supply side.
As a side note, corgis from responsible Breeders are the lowest percentage of dogs I am contacted about for rescue, just above them are pet shop purchases. The majority of the rescues I see come from horsey types who have corgi litters just because it is part of that culture, byb's, kitchen breeder types and other random type breeders.
This is not saying I support pet shop purchases, nothing could be further from the truth, just that if one wishes to address a problem, then the actual source of the problem needs to be identified and the true problem is John Q. Puppybuyer.
Debbie