Rescue Mania

   I wish there were no unwanted animals, specifically dogs, and it's good that there are rescues, but it's gotten out of hand. We know dogs are being brought in from southern states and put up for adoption here.Newspapers carry these accounts on a regular basis. It must be expensive to transport these animals, but who doesn't love a dog story, especially now when our affluent living style has led to the aggrandizement of  dogs. Celebrities and do-gooders boast of their RESCUE DOGS.
   The American Kennel Club has spoken out on a related matter. There is legislation being passed preventing the sale of registered dogs in pet stores; they are being permitted to sell only abandoned or homeless animals,  in other words, rescues. The AKC is claiming that many of these rescue dogs are being imported from other countries, capitalizing on the American hunger to be saviors of canines. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but who knows what to believe.