The kindest, most moral way to buy a puppy.

[PootlePoseysMa]

Unfortunately it still seems that many people are unsure about how to find their perfect puppy without supporting puppy farming either directly or indirectly. My response is to look for a rescue puppy. I do not care which rescue you choose but please, please, please do choose a rescue puppy.

I am a fosterer for Many Tears Animal Rescue. Over the last 2 years my family and I have been lucky enough to foster, love, socialise and commence training and ultimately rehome 122 rescue puppies. We have fosterered all breeds, crossbreeds, sizes, mixes of puppies. I shall try to post some vidoes and photos but I am not very good with 'technology'.

As I mentioned I am a volunteer fosterer for Many Tears Animal Rescue - please search their web page for available puppies and doggies. At this stage many 'unhappy/unsuccessful' applicants shall respond with negativity but that seems to be the way of the internet.

Pootle you do a fine job. Choice is gorgeous.
The thing is I need to consider all members of the family and what they want. We have decided on a wolfhound.
If I ever persuade DH again I will go back to looking at rescues!
My cats are rescues. I have always had rescues. I'm not a "pedigree" kind of person!!!

Wolfie, I don't particularly like greys either - the skinny lad just makes me look fatter, he doesn't give a shit whether his behaviour pleases me/us or not (he is just quite well behaved most of the time) and he is too large to sit on anybody's lap (like the DCs would like) - and still, we luffs him

It is a huge commitment and decision - took me two years to put my money where my mouth was.

You do know you will have to post on MN with photos when you get your pup, don't you?!

Pacific I am sure that I will be here begging for advice. (Ha. Research! Like reading books about babies before you have one!!)
I had a wolfie visitor recently. She sat on my lap!

Oh yes, DGround tries… He's currently warming my feet. I need to go to bed, but that would disturb him. Sigh.

Tough it out. Until he farts. Then leave or die!
Grey farts are legendary!!

Recently Many Tears had a litter of Russian terriers. They asked me if I could foster 2 of them at 8 weeks and I agreed (thinking they'd be a typical jack russell size). I was very, very wrong - at 8 weeks they were ENORMOUS !!! Fortunately they got adopted almost instantly - one was adopted by an actor from Eastenders, I'll try to find a link :-)

A great lesson to learn - not all terriers are small :-)

Ricky Grover from Eastenders - if you do twitter apparantly you'll see lots of photos of his Many Tears rescue doggie. I must admit I am dreadful because I don't watch Eastenders and I don't know how to use twitter :-)

twitter.com/rickygroveruk/status/585191451790876673

Brilliant!

I'm amazed a litter of RBTs was adopted out so quickly, they're not exactly your average pet dog especially if they've come from an iffy breeder.

it is awesome the work that all rescuers do to help the poor animals that go thro the disgusting hands of the puppy farmers, but to be honest, puppy farms only exist because we keep buying the poor puppies, who could spend a lifetime of misery in ill-health as a result of such terrible breeding /feeding /rearing practices, and cause health and phsyical risk to children/other animals and public around the family they go to.

I know there are so many amazing dpups/ddogs rescued and successfully rehomed, but for each one of those there is far more than one that really doesn't do so well.

This is no criticism of the rehomers or centres, but purely an observations from the vast numbers of rehomers that i come across where the ddog will either spend the rest of its life on medications in ill-health or suffering life-long with terrible nerves and trauma that there is no expertise to recover them from, and many also have to give up after trying so hard to help which is also upsetting for the family.

Again, awesome efforts from the rescuers, but we have to take responsibility for being the people that buy puppies from puppy farms, if we didn't then they wouldn't exist. If we arm ourselves with the knowledge required to buy such a precious animal then we would never see a puppy before making our decision, nor would we buy any dpup that we felt sorry for, which many do, sadly.

We create this situation we are also struggling to help recover, all with the best of intentions.

Aweeee the puppies are so cute!

We went for the other end of the spectrum when getting a dog and adopted the overbred mum who was dumped and put on the pts list when a local rescue took her in when picking up another dog, I wasn't really keen to get a puppy as our first dog although would consider one or two in the future but I would rescue all the way!

These are before and after pics!