[ThePoodlesMoody]

I understand things can go downhill pretty quickly when hoarding begins or someone's health begins to fail, and an experienced breeder seems to be able to make everything seem okay to potential buyers, and say all the right things, for far longer than they can actually keep things up.

We unfortunately see things like this all the time in rescue. I think I've talked about it before but it's never so black and white as we wish it could be. It isn't just that people are either good or bad.The majority of people have good intentions or believe they're doing well by the dogs or sometimes they know they're overwhelmed and they're too far in and too ashamed to stop. Sometimes the lie consumes them. There is immense relief sometimes for people when everything comes out in the light of day and they don't have to juggle it all anymore.

I am not at all condoning what happened at Kameo, just saying it's a sad situation all around. This is a bigger deal because of the kennel reputation, but it is happening all across the country with breeders who never had a good name to establsih themselves on int he beginning. I could drive around to amish puppy mills in southern Minnesota and find plenty of situations similar to these. I wish I could say it wasn't a thing I've seen before.

Although. On a more positive note, I will say that many of these dogs are RESILIENT and they go on to lead good happy lives. Dogs can forgive terrible livingconditions pretty easily if the humans at least spoke kindly to them and didn't physically hurt them. I have hope for these dogs.