Like the drug trade, the designer dog trade is worldwide, lucrative, often criminal in nature, (notwithstanding animal cruelty,) deceptive, (a lot of bait and switch), appeals to those who lack empathy for the dogs and their customers, and subscribe to a business model that invests nothing in the “product” while gauging the highest prices from their buyers. Sometimes the dogs offered for sale are actually stolen.

I have been ranting about this for a while, and even wrote a book about it, as the trend to have a designer dog exploded exponentially, leaving customers brokenhearted and puppies broken bodied.  Here is an example that just came across my desk courtesy of the Scottish Sun: a convicted cocaine dealer was released from prison in Scotland, fled to Dubai, and uses his old drug network to sell and transport English and French Bulldogs!

The only way to stop puppy mills, Craig’s list peddlers, and Instagram fakers, is to just not buy them. Don’t create a demand for this “supply”. This “supply” has feelings and feels pain.

So please, adopt a shelter dog.