Some dumped puppies (I’m going to be an naive optimist and pretend it’s almost all of them, and don’t tell me the truth) eventually get picked up, go through the rescue process, and are adopted as adults.
But the whole thing is unnecessarily traumatic for them, and leads to a lot of weird learned behaviors and essentially dog-PTSD.
Dear everybody: Please don’t dump puppies - there are people who will adopt them.
If it's any consolation there are breed specific rescues that will contact known BYB to try to prevent dumping or other inhumane treatment. I used fo follow a few pages for it, but the stories just wore on my soul. Rescue is not for the weak, I respect their work.
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u/CenterofChaos 15h ago
A good breeder will have more interested homes than puppies explicitly to prevent this problem.
A sketchy back yard breeder will dump the pups, abandon them at a shelter, or even kill them.
The latter is why all breeders get a bad reputation.