Are Our Rescues "Too Good"???

I just read an email this morning from our beloved pug rescue of Northwest Arkansas, and it seems to be a trend I am noticing, even from the HSUS a few weeks back. Breeders and puppy mills retire, sell out, retire some of their dogs, cash in all of their chips, and then basically drops dogs, or in the case of the HSUS, everything, into the hands of cash strapped rescues and shelters.

Now, I have nothing against the rescues in these cases. They do wonderful work day in and day out. The Pug Rescue was even at our birthday party on July 26th.

What seems like a problem to me is that these folks make all of their money on these dogs, breeding them over and over, and then when they are done with them, lob them over the fence at a rescue to deal with. Now, I do know what the alternative is. These rescues step in when often these animals might go to a kill shelter, and might not make it another 30 days, but it just seems so crass to me that they have the audacity to wring every cent they can, then leave them as some one else's responsibility.

I think there needs to be a disposal fee (I know that sounds bad) that breeders and millers have to pay for someone else to take over the ownership of these dogs. Some fee to help with food, medical care, and the myriad of other costs associated with rescuing these dogs and rehoming them. They won't pay it - unless it's a requirement to be licensed by the USDA for a kennel. The requirements are so weak as they are now anyway. This just seems fair to me. You have to pay to have the junk yard take your old beater from you, or to dispose of anything else. There are the folks that just go dump their trash somewhere off of their property, like in a ravine, or out in the woods, because they are too cheap to take it to the dump. There are some pretty stiff penalties for this "Illegal Dumping". Why don't we charge the breeders and millers to take "their garbage" off their hands too?