Editor: I would like to comment on your front-page story “Purse puppies pay high price,” (The Times, Feb. 16).
I applaud Linda Lanyon and her fellow pet lovers for their hard work and dedication. I am a dog lover myself, and all of the dogs that I have shared my life with have been adoptioned from rescues or shelters exclusively.
Every shelter or recognized rescue that I have worked with has had one common rule. All of the animals that they release for adoption be spayed or neutered either prior to adoption, or as a condition of the adoption contract. It is part of being a responsible pet owner, and helps to keep even more dogs from being the victims of human whims, and irresponsibility.
Therefore, I was surprised to see that “Chester’s mother” had been adopted by a family in Victoria and had since given birth to a litter of pups. It is my fervent hope that the mother was impregnated prior to being rescued, and adopted out under that understanding to responsible people who will have the pups spayed and neutered as appropriate before finding them loving homes.
I strongly hope that Lanyon’s rescue group did not adopt out an unspayed dog that has since been bred by the adoptive owners.
Bryant Ross,
Langley
