Adopt, don’t shop!
We’ve always encouraged people to adopt the homeless dogs at the shelters instead of buying from pet shops or from breeders. Some of the puppies sold at the pet shops are from puppy mills and from greedy breeders who are just selling pups for the money. They don’t care about the dogs’ well-being. Dogs from these greedy breeders are not cared for, and are placed in small and filthy cages. Some of the pups even come out as malnourished and deformed. And most breeders would toss the runts and deformed puppies to the trash.
However, just recently, a breeder was discovered to have been breeding deformed dogs litter after litter.
Jane Beller, a dog rescuer in Oklahoma, saw an online ad of five 2-legged dogs for sale. In most cases, deformed puppies are a result of an accident, a genetic flaw that couldn’t be controlled. So thinking that these poor dogs are deformed by accident, Jane stepped forward to help find them good homes. But the owner of the puppies told her that they cost $75 each.
Two-legged friends w/ a four-legged attitude. Now, @BellaOKC and @SafeHavenOK could use your help – full story at 5! pic.twitter.com/PZrY72jI9h
— Bill Schammert (@BillSchammert) July 1, 2016
Jane told The Dodo, “I messaged and said that I was worried about people getting them for novelty, so I asked her to surrender them.” But later on, she found out that the woman selling the puppies was a breeder, and that the puppies come from separate litters. She also found out that other rescuers have been trying to deal with this breeder for years. They have taken and saved dogs from her which had the same condition. It became clear that this woman knew that breeding the dogs would cause this defect, and yet she has repeatedly bred these dogs.
There are no details as to how many dogs she has bred with this kind of deformity, or whether she’s breeding the dogs with the intention of selling them like that. The breeder is going through tough times so she could no longer care for the dogs. The dogs are now under the care of The Bella Foundation and Safe Haven Animal Rescue. They are going to pair the dogs to foster families. They are also raising funds to get wheelchairs for these dogs so they could move around easier.
Watch the video below for the full story.
Awww…the poor babies! Although their legs are deformed, thankfully they are all in good health. We sure hope that these dogs will go to good homes very soon!
For more of this story, please read the news report at http://okcfox.com/. You can also read more about this story at The Dodo.
