The Debate on Auction Dogs

Best Friends Animal Society, a very large and politically active rescue in Utah is a leader in the no-kill movement.

They felt compelled to post their

POSITION AND RESPONSE REGARDING THE OCTOBER 2010 SCHINDLER AUCTION.   Under normal circumstances, I would agree with most of their position points.  This auction is different, though.  The sheer quantity of dogs being auctioned is staggering.  This is just the beginning of the "dumping" that will occur when Prop B passes and these commercial breeders must reduce their "stock" in order to comply with these more stringent requirements.  This horrible situation has gone for so long that it will take a long time for the dogs currently in the system to cycle out.  As that happens, rescuers are rallying to meet the needs of the dogs who will lose the only home they have ever had...a home in hell to be sure.  There is an obligation to find an alternative for these dogs to end the misery they currently face.  If we just turn our backs on these auctions, the dogs are not just going to continue on...they will die from starvation, inhumane euthanization, abuse and neglect in numbers even higher than now.  Look at what happened in Nazi Germany when people became afraid or were politically coerced into ignoring the plight of the Jews in the concentration camps.  Certainly these are not people, but the crimes and holocaust  suffered by these dogs are just as sickening.  Politics be damned.  It's all about the lives of these dogs and generations to follow.  Perhaps our grandkid's generations won't ever hear the word "Puppy Mill"...imagine.