Pocket puppies is despicable. To get puppies that are marketable, the parent dogs are inhumanely treated and many of the puppies do not survive, or they are born with defects and they end up getting drowned by the breeder within days of being born. These “pocket puppies” are mutations. Absolutely inhumane.

Several interesting blog posts that outline the “retail rescue” scam for dogs, cats, and horses where rescues pop up everyday.

The scammers in animal rescue (and it IS documented) go from flat broke to enriched with money and material goods from those gullible and naïve people who NEVER ask questions before donating or sharing a rescue FB page, and who appear to be “addicted” to rescuing as long as it is a “crisis”, exciting, full of drama, and has a timeframe that “these animals MUST be rescued now!” (sales technique used to project a sense of immediacy/urgency, and in ‘rescue’ projected as a life and death scenario, even when it often is not, unless people HELP from afar via PayPal, ChipIn, GoFundMe, etc and where they NEVER meet the actual players at the rescue.

These retail rescue crooks are living high on the hog because of their willingness to lie, embellish, not answer legitimate questions, etc.

And the worst part is that if they end up with un-useable animals, they KILL or “disappear” them because they are NOT in the business of keeping un-useable animals and maintaining them for months or years.

https://4graceandtruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/donation-funded-animal-orgs-you-want-the-publics-money-then-you-have-to-answer-some-questions-first/

Hi Steve,
When I was a child Collies were very popular and although we had a shelter-dog at the time, we wanted to add a Collie to the family. Now keeping in mind that my parents were not particularly savvy about dog selection, but they had enough sense that if they were going to get a purebred dog, that they would start with the source, that being the breeder.

Even in those days, around the early 1960s, there were “dog shops” where one could go to the mall to buy a puppy, like they were picking out a pair of shoes. The stores had “royal” names like Puppy Palace, which belied the awful truth about the dog-factories where the puppies were born, or the deplorable conditions in which the “breeder-pairs” were kept.

I remember my mom saying how important it was to talk with the breeder, meet the puppies’ parents, and most importantly, get to select a puppy from the litter! She also said that if, say the average going price for a purebred Collie was (in 1960) $75.00, then why would one go to a pet-shop and pay the same amount give or take a few dollars? In other words, what breeder, knowing that her puppies had a particular value would sell wholesale to a pet-shop? The answer is that a breeder, even a “hobby” breeder would not, but a dog factory would. And while the majority of these places are houses of horror, even if they were pristine, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re factories, mass producing dogs without regards to careful selection for health, conformation and “temperament”. What’s more is that a knowledgable breeder will begin socializing her puppies to daily life, long before they are ready to transition to their new homes, at which time the new puppy-parent can continue the educational process. However, what I saw on the video of Mr. Boron’s pet-store, were puppies isolated in their “suites” which is no different than keeping them in cages, except it appears more sanitized. Do these puppies have appropriate playtime and socialization? Does someone live at the facility 24/7 or are the pups left alone like pieces of merchandise? Does he have someone on staff with an education in animal behavior, animal husbandry, nutrition? He said that his puppies sell for between $600.00 and around $4000.00; again, if the puppies had that value, the breeder could sell them to the public herself!

Bottom line, no matter how you spin it, these facilities are DOG FACTORIES that “manufacture” a product. And in this case, they are manufacturing tiny “mutant” dogs that can fit in a pocket! YIKES!