And the public needs to see all this too.”All across the Internet, comments were fiery about the little-known business practice that The Post’s investigation detailed, of rescuers buying dogs from breeders at auctions. Some said buying auction dogs is necessary to remove them from the commercial breeding industry, while others said the practice funds the very breeders that rescuers decry as puppy mills. Strader is among those who say buying dogs for high prices at auction is not a form of rescue at all: “People who call this puppy mill rescue? “Though my rescue doesn’t buy or save animals from auction, I can sympathize with the rescuers who do,” one person wrote. The premise of this story is that people are buying dogs at auction from breeders in an effort to ‘rescue’ them.

Source: Washington Post April 18, 2018 15:50 UTC