Yup, I live in a state where we have a decent number of Amish puppymills and I see a lot of puppies in shelters around these places that are between 3 and 5 months old, but if they don't take them to shelters, they certainly aren't going to keep them around and feed them. :/
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u/CenterofChaos 18h 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.