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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Why some people buy dogs from puppy mills but say they're rescue dogs

    Dog rescue groups have long denounced commercial breeders for mistreating animals.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Apr 12, 2018 • 1 min read

    Dog rescue groups have long denounced commercial breeders for mistreating animals. But one reporter found that some of the same rescue groups who criticize breeders are buying dogs from them at auctions, sometimes for thousands of dollars, and selling them as rescue dogs.

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    Backroom deals between animal shelters and dog breeders
    1. 0:00How would foreign policy change under Mike Pompeo?
    2. 8:09What the California National Guard will do at the border
    3. 17:49Why some people buy dogs from puppy mills but say they're rescue dogsYou’re reading this
    4. 25:24The last Nazi war criminal in the U.S.
    5. 36:29The strange journey of 'Louie Louie'
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