What's New in 2017?

Basically, animal activists continue to ramp up their nonsense...that every retail outlet that sells animals like puppies, kittens, cats, rabbits, whatever--- MUST be "rescued" or shelter animals.

WHY does this seem wrong to us?

First of all--- there is not any duty for any store or outlet to ONLY SELL rescued animals. Even though we are well aware that the proponents can claim there is a rational basis for it, the evidence would prove that such tactics really means that the non profit sector seeks to benefit from usually having to BUY such animals themselves, in order to sell them.

Oh sure, people can go to shelters and not find what they want.  They can go to rescues and not find what they want. So rescues then have to scramble to find what people WANT--- and what most people want, is some animal that is not damaged, not aggressive, not dumb, not untrained, not a barking forever, untrained, house soiling, overly scared, overly timid, biting, overly hyper, overly sick, overly anything bad (as in behavior, health, temperament, manners,etc.)

And no matter what the rescues claim, and the rest of the AR people claim, there are some rehomed dogs that are ok. But for the most part, people don't surrender their dogs to shelters that much. They just try to give it away or charge some small fee by pushing it on Craigslist or online.  WHY??

Because everyone knows that shelter animals face daunting odds. There only has to be one seriously ill dog with distemper or parvo to make it spread to other animals, especially puppies, and those animal which were not vaccinated.

Some people can't even STAND to go into a shelter.  What is normally there is not something most people would want, but there are exceptions.  We have owned shelter dogs, but they were not without their faults.  However, having done animal rescue for years in the past, we are very aware of how the game is played.  And in the end, many non  profits exist to make the profit.  They pay no taxes. [In order to pay NO taxes, they must obtain the Federal tax exemption; failure to do this means there is no tax exemption on the proceeds received. Meaning, the animal you buy from they is a TAXABLE transaction to the buyer, and the proceeds are taxable to the seller.  There is no non profit "writeoff" for such a transaction.]

Non profits can claim whatever they want, but unless they are highly FUNDED--- and have TONS of donations--- they are going to be pushing off dogs onto people that THEY want people to have.  In order to really match dogs to people, most rescued animals are NOT suitable for novice owners at all.

In fact rescues should almost never sell dogs to novice owners for no other reason than the new owner won't know what the hell they are doing.

Last but not least, the new proposed law for California (that all retail sold dog/cat/kitten etc) MUST be "rescued" or shelter animals --- is likely not legal, especially when it is for the entire STATE.
We have seen no one address this issue, but believe as applied it would be illegal.  When non profits are making the laws, then regulating the laws, then controlling the sourcing of animals, the sales of animals and the oversight of what can be purchased, we believe that is far too broad of a reach as far as the general public goes, since there would be little to no proof that such tactics will reduce either overall animal populations (such as unwanted cats) or that it would even affect known shelters, since no one knows how many shelters or rescues even exist, because registration and oversight does not even exist for rescued animals.  The only plausible database is that of the state/or county, and with the software used by such entities, it is very easy to manipulate that software.

Meaning, it is not a big deal to be able to manipulate the numbers of animals claimed to have come "in" vs the numbers going "out."  All they have to do is open the gate, and let out a bunch of animals that they claimed they took in--- leave.  Or they can drop them off instead of taking them in.  Most parts of the city do not have strays running the streets.

Only in certain locations, usually the poor neighborhoods, will you see animals running the streets.  Like in Los Angeles in the barrio, dogs are routinely brought in and killed and then new dogs are obtained to replace the ones AC took.  This solves nothing except to remove them from the streets.  The key to stopping this is for local efforts to alter the dogs in poor areas.  It is that simple.  But Los Angeles gave up on that long ago, after their foolish idea was put in place believing they would become "no kill" in 10 years?  Very stupid.  Of course it would never work if you don't put 10 trucks for spay/neuter in the barrio areas.