Havanese Rescue – Did You Know That Some Puppy Mills Use Rescue Groups?
For the longest time, animal rescue has been shouldered, for the most part, by breeders and others genuinely concerned about animals. You could say it was not, prior to their spread, a popular undertaking, but it was needed just the same. In recent years, many animal rescue groups have surfaced, which may be a good thing if all of them actually took part in rescues and did not serve a fronts for puppy mills. The number of Havanese rescue groups have seen an increase recently, and these organizations will prove vital in your search for a good Havanese dog to adopt. What you need to cultivate is some healthy skepticism toward these Havanese rescue groups, since not all of them are what they claim to be.
You may not believe this, but there have been reports that some puppy mill operators pose as rescue groups, which then charge people a higher than normal fee for their supposedly rescued pups, or pass their unhealthy dogs at heavily discounted rates. Puppy mills are only after profit, not prioritizing the avoidance of hereditary conditions to the bred pups, breeding runt to runt for design pup whims, and are not to be trusted with health and breeding documentation they may offer (it’s likely those are false).
Various rescue groups operate in largely similar ways, at least on the surface – rescuing dogs, taking care of them, interviewing adoptive owners, and having the dog’ adopted; but there are way in which they operate differently. There are also variations in how rescues evaluate possible candidate adoptive home. That’s why you should be asking a lot of questions in case you are planning to support a rescue, take part in their operations through volunteer efforts, or adopt from them.
Ask them about their rescues, how do they get them, what procedures are in place, what criteria are used. About the potential adoptive home, does the rescue group regularly perform their screening before dogs are placed in them. About donations, how do they solicit them and how are the donations being used? It’s good to be clear on how the funds are primarily being used – for maintaining the needs of the group, or for the dogs.
In case you’re not aware of it, donated funds could also be used to buy dogs from puppy mills on the cover of saving them. You could always say this is a noble cause, as it “saves” dogs, too, but it’s also one revenue source for those unscrupulous people. Think about it, if rescue organizations did not buy dogs from puppy mills, then puppy mills would not be having another sector to sell their pups to. Which is why breeding clubs and kennel clubs usually do not support this kind of rescue group fund usage.
Though this one can be intrusive with the group’s financial spending policies, ask whether they prefer to use donated funds to help treat animals through expensive stations rather than use such amounts for rescuing more dogs.
