“We have breeders that breed for the auction,” says Will Yoder, a commercial breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels in Bloomfield, Iowa. “It’s a huge, huge underground market. It’s happening at an alarming rate.
The crazy Cavalier people were among the first to launch this insanity about 20 years ago, buying up Cavs for exorbitant prices to the glee of commercial breeders. Now it’s grown into a fundraising scam.
Dude looks like a lady. Dude sounds like a dude.
I bought an empty aquarium yrs ago, from a dude who claimed he would use the proceeds to ‘rescue’ yet another woebegotten tropical fish from the breeder/retailer/whatever.
I didn’t point out the $ he got from me to do this, provided the breeder/retailer/whatever the funds to got out to *their* supplier and buy another.
rinse and repeat eh?
also, re the ‘rescue’ business has brought canine influenza onto the continent from, where else, Chirer.
I’m gonna pay the local LIEberal mp a visit and query how the FCUK could that happen given strict LIVE ANIMAL import regulations. will keep y’all advised.
There is something similar going on in regard to retired race horses. Social media pleas to send money to rescue horse destined for Canadian or Mexican slaughterhouses.
https://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/chicken-houses-and-horse-rescue-a-complicated-tale/
Feed lots have in turn discovered a new cottage industry for themselves: giving horses “one last chance” to escape a truck to the border by posting them for sale at escalated prices on social media. Many offer followers the chance to contribute part of a horse’s “bail” without having to take possession of the horse themselves, routing the payments through PayPal and eventually declaring that the horse is “safe” or “free” when the bail price has been reached.