PetCo can change its name to Mutts-R-Us.
seriously, the pet stores around here don’t have any dogs for sale anyway unless it sponsors an Adoption Day.
There are usually a few cats/ kittens for sale on a regular basis but no dogs.
If you want a pure-breed find a Breeder-Exhibitor, not every pup in a litter will be earmarked to show, you can acquire a fine animal with an impressive pedigree and great health background.
Our border collie is out of a Grand Champion sire & pointed bitch, both with numerous champions in conformation and skill trials in their pedigrees going back several generations.
Beautiful dog, highly intelligent, cost a lot less than most would think.
What Im doing for work now means I wind up visiting shelters and "pet stores" on a regular basis. Same thing everywhere, 30 pit bull variants and 1 angry overweight untrained 14 year old chihuahua.
There are people literally waiting around for anything else to be made available and that dog has many offers of homes to adopt it. Even ones that don't belong in the home they are being sent to. One day during a single visit to the pound I saw 2 dogs, both dogs known to have a history of aggression toward children, one of which also had bit adults, adopted by families with children. One of those newly adopted dogs was already aggressive toward the child before the family had left. These same clowns running the place wont adopt out to rural families because by their checklist, rural settings are abusive settings for dogs.
We've been looking for a dog for over a year since my Newf died. Cant find anything. Im really not surprised.
People fall for this bull about puppy mills. The fact is that much like the famous misrepresentation of an "abused" horse, the pictures used have been primarily from foreign nations and the "facts" even in those situations are over a decade old. These people supporting this type of nonsense shouldn't be embarrassed, they should be enraged they have been played the fool by leftist propaganda (again).
These laws are unconstitutional. They are an attack on your security.
Bukhari Vol. 1, #490 "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people)."
For these types, socially transforming the dog loving American society to one more acceptable to mudslimes is just icing on the cake.