Here’s Your ‘Adopt Don’t Shop’ Swipe File

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204 – October, 2023

By Sandy Weaver

The dog-loving general public has fallen for language that automatically makes purebred dog breeders the enemy of kindness and morality. As the marketing rolls out from animal rights groups into general-population usage through social media, pithy pronouncements like “adopt, don’t shop” take on mythical, magical, and poisonous properties. It’s up to the fancy to clap back on language that makes it easier for people to vote for laws that affect the rights to own and enjoy any kind of dog–purebred or mixed, intact or neutered, and even whether litters of puppies can legally be produced.

Read on for a swipe file to use when “adopt, don’t shop” shows up in your social media feed or conversations. Educate, don’t evade.

People who adopt from a pound or rescue group are making a choice that is theirs to make. Sometimes it’s an informed choice and sometimes not. Many are under the influence of the “adopt, don’t shop” mentality.

Many are choosing to take in a dog they know little to nothing about, in the same way someone who goes to a pet store to purchase a puppy does. They’re choosing a pig in a poke and hoping for the best. Some rescues are no better than pet stores–they take in dogs and send out dogs without regard to the best interests of the dogs or the people adopting them. They just care if the check clears or the Venmo goes through, all the while trumpeting the lives being saved. But at what cost?

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204 – October, 2023

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