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In reply to the discussion: I hope everyone who thinks it's OK to "just breed her once" or "just buy one dog" reads this all the [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)Apparently much of the problem here is from California, which has such an over-abundance of dogs in its shelters that it's shipping them all over the country. (Not just to Oregon and Washington.) Why does CA in particular have so many unwanted dogs? Maybe they should be spending more money there promoting spaying and neutering campaigns. But it's not the fault of responsible breeders in Washington that too many Chihuahuas are being sold and abandoned in California.
http://www.dogstardaily.com/blogs/cindy-bruckart/impact-importing-dogs
And here's a website of one of the many orgs that imports dogs from shelters all over the world and imports them to shelters in the US -- this org, specifically to Northern California. From there, they get shipped all over the country if they're not quickly adopted out.
If these orgs wanted to do some real good, they should also be putting efforts into spay/neuter campaigns in these other countries, not just shipping their excess here.
http://cwob.org/rescue.html