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There are enough dogs already.
Correct, there are enough dogs, except once the shelters are empty, people have no choice but to go to breeders. We've seen this happen before. That statement does not exemplify for lawmakers how to regulate an industry that is permanently a part of our society. It doesn't tell buyers to consider their plans to get a dog seriously. It doesn't encourage shelters and breeders to engage in ethical placement of their dogs.
An increase in adoption from shelters is something we can all agree on, but a decrease on intake to shelters is where the homeless dog problem is taken on directly. Looking at half the equation only helps dogs half of the way. Dogs deserve the best lives and that includes preventing them from ending up in a shelter to begin with.
This is about preventing dogs from going into shelters. Surely you don't want more dogs in shelters, yet this rhetoric ignores all of that.
@Kyle @MummysLittleBloodSlut
Except when the shelters are empty, the rescues import dogs from 3rd world countries.
If you want to keep paradoxically making the market more ripe for backyard breeders by spreading misinformation by all means, keep doing it.
But people working to educate prospective dog owners to be responsible and prevent dogs from being abused to begin with will always be on the right side of history.