I hear ya! The time to adopt is every day. Not when there’s a big story, but when the animals are sitting alone in a kennel at the pound. Those faces are just as sweet and need just as much love as any other.

Yeah, the Atlanta Humane Society got a bunch of those puppies, too. So many people showed up at the Atlanta HS for those puppies that there were fights. Seriously. 40 puppies to be adopted per day (over a three day period)… 600 people in line before the HS opened on day one… and people were cutting in line… it was nasty, according to the news. They had to call in the police for crowd control.

Sheesh. And yeah, ditto what da Goddess said.

I just hope these people lining up were truly looking for pets, and not dogfighting fodder. {spits and growls in anger}
Hopefully the adoption agencies can screen out such rejects of society…

You know, I had a hard time getting a dog this go round.

-Local SPCA not an option here. Filled with pitbulls, pitbull mixes and 12 year old cockapoos.
-My next resort was to go to the same Corgi Rescue that our last dog came from, but they had a lack of foster families and were temporarily closed. The next nearest corgi rescue operaton was 7 hours away.
-I tried reasonably local pet fostering places via Petfinder and you know what? Those people are nutty. They are run by eccentrics who arbitrarily change rules and are difficult to deal with.
-Then I played my insider card by going to a man I know who fosters Westies and after weeks of pereparation, I was a day away from taking ownership of a great 6 month old pup. Too bad the aforementioned rulechangers decided to give the dog to someone else.
-Puppy stores - no.
-So I did finaly end up buying a puppy from a bredder, a path I never planned to take.But in the end, I got a great dog that I’m totally happy with.

Maybe all those people lining up still have their optimism intact and really expect to take the dogs home. Hope they keep them once they get there.

Yea it’s kinda funny how people come out of the woodwork in situations like this. It’s great and all, but kinda odd.
Makes you wonder if when they ran out of the puppy mill pups if the other people in line went on to adopt a “regular” shelter dog……Anyhow I’m glad you are approaching it so level headed.
you have the banana man too!!

The Italian Greyhound rescues are great. They take in and find foster homes when nobody thinks they can take anymore.

When puppymills get busted or sell off their stock IG rescue is right there getting the IG’s so they can get them into rescue. They don’t want the dogs put into homes right away because of the issues that puppymill dogs have . The foster homes work with the IG’s until they are ready for a real home.

Because most of those that got those puppymill dogs will be turning them back in because of the issues. People don’t really understand the emotional trama those puppymill dogs have gone through.