{"id":949,"date":"2015-01-29T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2015-01-30T00:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T00:38:32","slug":"hypocrisy-on-parade-another-call-for-breeding-dogs-in-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/shelter-rescue\/hypocrisy-on-parade-another-call-for-breeding-dogs-in-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy on Parade: Another Call for Breeding Dogs in Shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hypocrisy on parade in\u00a0The Coming Shelter Dog Shortage<\/a>,\u00a0complete with ideas on how shelters can retain their “market share” in dogs:<\/p>\n

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The ideal thing would be for No Kill to find some way to co-opt the industry \u2013 to make sure there is a big enough supply of shelter dogs for community No Kill shelters to be able to maximize their market share. The most obvious way to do this would be to start importing homeless dogs from overseas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Another way to tackle the problem would be for volunteers to breed litters which would then be donated to their local shelter for placement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What? What… What<\/em>?!?<\/p>\n

On one hand,\u00a0the author talks about dogs not being widgets… on the other, about shelters keeping or growing their market share. The argument for shelters breeding and placing puppies is one long advertising pitch!<\/p>\n

Here’s a novel idea: if there is a shortage of dogs in shelters, rejoice! Then refocus on cats and other pets… and when that problem is solved, be thankful for\u00a0all the amazing hard work you, big-hearted pet-owners, breeders, and lawmakers have put into creating a world where pets are no longer euthanized for space — and put a “closed” sign on the front door.<\/p>\n

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Talking about co-opting an industry through importation and breeding sounds awfully business-like; the claims of advantages shelters would have in breeding and placing puppies almost sounds like an advertising pitch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}