A pet store’s closure caused 100 puppies to end up at the shelter giving a prospective dog pawrent the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rescue her dream dog instead of funding a puppy mill: ‘Lo and behold, there were two Boston terrier puppies.’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jan 16, 2026 1:00 PM EST

Karma is an interesting thing and not something that we specifically see when it comes to canine adoptions and rescues all too often. But in the case of this story karma is definitely the unseen force that guided this woman's adoption journey. For after being turned away by breed-specific rescues for one day wanting a hooman child (compelete madness, we know), she turned to pupper breeders. Of course a less than ideal way to approach things but seeing as she was set on a specific breed it seemed to be the only way this woman was going to get her dream dog.

But even with the breeders there was always something amiss, something that caused the deal to fall through. That is until one of those breeders ended up getting shut down for poor practises and lo and behold, the exact kind of pupper this prospective pawrent was looking for turned up in droves at her local shelter. Giving her the chance to legitimately rescue a doggo in need of a loving and caring home. Proof that sometimes it is best to let karma lead the way.

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    "So my sister tried to 'rescue' a puppy mill dog and wound up rescuing a puppy mill dog."
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    My sister tried to "rescue" a puppy mill puppy. My sister has wanted a Boston Terrier forever and she's been searching
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    recently. She's not sure if she wants a puppy, so she had been looking mostly at breed specific rescues. She only works three days a week, he partner
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    works nights, so someone is almost always home. They own a house with a fenced in yard. Sounds like a great place for a rescue. But none of the
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    breed specific rescues will adopt to her because she plans to have kids one day. So I suggested she approach breeders and see if they have
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  • What in the heckin heck is this madness about? A rescue will not adopt out a dog to someone who has the pawfect living situation and might want kind one day in the future? Since when did adopting a dog mean that you are to become a recluse with no children? Solely devoted to your dog, and distanced from society, so much so that one day you end up starting to knit a sweater from fur that has fallen off your pupper. No wonder people are turning to breeders, they are practically being sent there by rescues…

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    older puppies or dogs to place since it does happen from time to time. I gave her the health tests to look for, the national and local clubs to reach out
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    to, even a couple of breeders to look at. I told her to ask me any questions if she needed help. She texts me late at night that one of the
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    breeders called with an older puppy that they kept because it had cherry eye, they kept it until treatment was complete. I was a little concerned that
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    the puppy had cherry eye in the first place (I personally don't know much about it and had planned to research later), but the breeders had been
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    responsible and taken care of the puppy rather than selling it. I asked her which breeder it was. She said they were in PA. I asked her if it was
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    Lancaster area. She said it was out that way, but not a puppy mill because when she called it sounded like a family home. I warned her that they
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  • See, this is the issue with buying dogs in the first place. You do not know what the breeder is about. Sure they might like dogs, heck they might even love dogs. But when each dog represents a pay day, then the priority of things shifts. And suffice it to say that when a dog is bred and raised in poor conditions you could end up with far more problems than you know what to do with and you paid a hefty sum for the pleasure of it all. 

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    were very good at appearing like a small family breeder (which also isn't good). I warned her she would have to be very careful her if she wanted to go
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    out there and to be very critical. I then asked her where she found the puppy. Her partner found it on lancasterpuppies. I told her that it was probably 99% likely
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    that it was a puppy mill. Of course she then says she now feels she wants to save the dog. After strongly advising her to not do that, it's not rescuing it's
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    supporting the puppy mill industry. She stopped texting me for that night probably p cd at me. I just hoped she wouldn't get that dog.
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    The next day she starts texting me about the fact that they are going to shelters that day to look at puppies. I was so relieved that she hadn't decided
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    to "rescue" a puppy mill dog. So she was texting me all day about different dogs they were finding. She had given up on finding a Boston terrier, but she was
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    disappointed to find that all of the dogs were larger and mostly pit mixes. She wanted a smaller dog and isn't fond of pit mixes after getting bit in
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    the cheek by one a few years ago. She was really disappointed and I know she was still thinking about the puppy mill dog. She found one mix she
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    liked (ACD mix) but was apprehensive because of their energy levels. Then she found out there had been a mass surrender of
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    about 7 dozen puppies to the shelter after a pet store was shut down for selling parvo infected puppies. This was about a month ago and the
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    puppies were being released for adoption the next day. So she got her application in, waited in line the next day, and finally got her chance to
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    pick her puppy. And lo and behold, there were two Boston terrier puppies. So the puppy she got was still likely a
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    puppy mill dog (edit: probably definitely a puppy mill dog). she is aware that it is more likely to have health problems but the money went to the shelter (and they
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    raised the adoption fees for the puppies so that each puppy that was adopted would allow an adult dog to be adopted for free) and the whole thing was a
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    step in the right direction for going against puppy mills. So my sister tried to "rescue" a puppy mill dog and wound up rescuing a puppy mill dog.
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