I'll just go ahead and say it: I'm totally against breeding animals for profit. I might elaborate on the reasons why in a later post. This article describes one of the reasons, though:
"I take the deaf, the blind, the disabled. I have never said 'no' to any dog," Rangan said. She's taken in rescue dachshunds for about 25 years, but lately she's been feeling overwhelmed. "I used to get one to five dachshunds a month. Now, it's not unusual to get in one to three a day," she said.
In the past 18 months, she's placed 560 dachshunds in new homes. She blames the growing numbers on people breeding the dogs for profit -- but not warning people of what life with a dachshund is like. "They're inquisitive. They're hunters. They're feisty little guys. People take them because they are so cute," she said.
There are too many animals looking for homes already; we don't need people deliberately breeding anymore. Fortunately there are volunteers, like the ones in this article, who devote themselves to finding homes for these surplus animals.
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