I’m confused, you say most of the dogs were from puppy mills but don’t understand how I would want to get rid of puppy mills? I don’t know where you live but where I am (Colorado) we have little dog shops at every corner. You can call them “breeders” or whatever but they are just “puppy mills” with a fresh coat of paint. It’s fucked up seeing hundreds of dogs for sale at outrageous prices and know that millions of dogs are put down on the daily. We are better than that shit.

Also, I “volunteered” for a county animal shelter for about 80 hours in my youth. Trust me, I know all too well what our reality is and “how bad it can get”.

Awesome! Good on you. We did the same for our 4 year old mini poodle.

Sorry, hard disagree. Stop buying brand new dogs when there’s millions put down every day.

You guys and your $2000 dogs…