it saddens me that so many shelter/pound animals get put to sleep due to the pathetically strict regulations of those places. i do however see the reason they say "breeders contribute to the problem" because there are so many "bad breeders" who ARE in fact in it for the money and they see that as how ALL breeders are, which is wrong.
i've over heard, in a shelter, in person, a shelter employee tell a black family they could not adopt a pit bull mix there due to the dog fighting/aggression issues associated with them. i got so pissed at hearing that that i snapped at the employee telling them they had no right to make that kind of judgement based on the family's skin color. the family tried to calm me down saying they understood the reason but i was like
"oh hell no, it is NOT ok! that is just racist & wrong on so many levels! ANY breed of dog can be aggressive especially if they're not raised properly."
people can be really stupid...
ok that rant is done...
i hate stupid people.