They imply many are adopted, which I would like to believe, but I don't know.
They explicitly address this in the FAQ - dogs that age out without being adopted are taken care of for life at their site. Also, I'm not sure I agree with the "shipping" characterization - they operate on a local basis, dogs aren't being taken moved really serious distances from place to place, and they have a "home base" that they spend most of their time at.
Also lots of dogs that are excellent candidates for adoption, still get put down.
From what I can tell the people renting pets would not be good candidates for adopting pets themselves, so I don't think that the company is necessarily discouraging pet adoption. It may even encourage it, because people may become attached to a dog and end up adopting one, whereas they might otherwise not have known that they had room for a dog in their life full-time. And they're no longer breeding dogs for this purpose. So I'm not entirely sure how this practice will really hurt the situation overall. I'd be in support of a law prohibiting breeding dogs to be rented (or breeding dogs at all), or regulating the business so that it couldn't put dogs down afterward or something. But after looking at the site I just can't summon up that much moral outrage.
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Date: 2008-03-02 08:29 pm (UTC)They explicitly address this in the FAQ - dogs that age out without being adopted are taken care of for life at their site. Also, I'm not sure I agree with the "shipping" characterization - they operate on a local basis, dogs aren't being taken moved really serious distances from place to place, and they have a "home base" that they spend most of their time at.
Also lots of dogs that are excellent candidates for adoption, still get put down.
From what I can tell the people renting pets would not be good candidates for adopting pets themselves, so I don't think that the company is necessarily discouraging pet adoption. It may even encourage it, because people may become attached to a dog and end up adopting one, whereas they might otherwise not have known that they had room for a dog in their life full-time. And they're no longer breeding dogs for this purpose. So I'm not entirely sure how this practice will really hurt the situation overall. I'd be in support of a law prohibiting breeding dogs to be rented (or breeding dogs at all), or regulating the business so that it couldn't put dogs down afterward or something. But after looking at the site I just can't summon up that much moral outrage.