In the USA...one can believe and EXPECT these horrendous acts and campaign drives to "flourish" and I remember back then during my campaigning years as one of my country's leading breeder exhibitor, we screened buyers (the so called pet lovers seeking companion lap dogs) before selling/exporting any of our homebreds to local or foreign would-be owners wanting to become dog fanciers too!
I was also a foreign breed correspondant for one of America's top leading single breed club monthly magazine and I received alot of mails asking about advise on how to handle selling or buying and owning a pedigree registered dog to rescue dogs etc...
I remembered having to advise numerous times to Americans esp. those living around the Californian State to be on the lookout and never to sell their dogs for less than 800 dollars to strangers they havn't a clue to screen check on...
There were, back then, agencies buying in dogs at a flat fee of only 500 to 750 dollars to have a dog and it ends up in a research lab!!! Nice income there for those on the near poverty line...if you summarize the picture here quickly!!!
Some are willing to let their dogs go for FREE... without the faintest idea what these weird "resellers" were up to but unlike most of our dedicated breeders within the Organisation and Breed Clubs we are in, we spend more time helping out screening people that knocks on the door seeking our popular and successful breeds we are specialized in and they come to us for our sensational wins at the shows for this is money making business too with progenies sold, at our expense while they spend next to nothing to our promoting and devotion in adhering to the breed standards we dedicate ourselves in with years of costly involvement at travelling and showing etc...
Thus, NEVER sell below that price ceiling and NEVER EVER give away a dog for FREE!!! Owning a dog for companionship comes with responsibility...if a person cannot maintain oneself and is living in an outback shack on a poverty line budget... DON'T sell or give away a dog to that potential liability. Unless you are a mill farm breeder, you know what I mean to treat/consider letting your homebreds depart that way.
Regarding food, there are all kinds out there. No different to the apetite we humans have except for the digestive systems a dog has to humans and their vulnarability to hazardous meats or "soft" meats that our human system can tolerate while dogs cannot.
Not many can afford or continue to maintain a 15 or 20 kg bag(s) of dog food from *****ed names at a price tag costing an average of $75 to $95 that may last only a month depending on the size of the breed and with those with more than 2 or 3 large dogs?? It's a costly affair on that budget for the average family that is also budgetting tightly at the groceries...it won't make sense to see someone claiming he/she can maintain a dog in a healthy state for a long time....on that outcome!
Most professional handlers and breeders and dedicated owners of various breeds that care about their dogs coat and condition spend incredibly more and is always prepared to spend MUCH more just so their babies are well looked after from the care and feeding that comes with it!
We make sure we don't buy pet feed that are or have bad publicity and linked to notoreity with food meddling ingredients. THere are lots of dedicated breed clubs with their members, breed judges and Vets within the club who will make sure they are kept abreast with the latest updates of hygiene and food when it comes down totheir specific breed.
I won't feed my dogs for less with mediocre quality food or with unknown *****s trying to make into the market with allkindsof fancy give aways and toy packages etc unless they have reasonable proof of their stock being specified, documented and appraise by the leading Agricultural Ministry or breed clubs....and all the way down the breedline.
The saying remains true:
the owner may withold the truth and beat about the bush but the dog never lie once it pooped!!! 
The condition and size to the color of the faeces will reveal the quality of the feed it lives on. I'll spare you from the details here, some might throw up onto their monitor/screen if I go further on the "rear end" of the production line....
But yes, buy good and balanced food and go learn more on your own, attending dog shows....there you will get to see the true colours of what you need to know precisely and meet up with the real people dedicated to good care and food welfare of a dog's healthy needs!
Unless you have a butler at home that takes care on that front through your expandable budget set aside...dogs can and are usually living far better off than most half starved children in most poverty stricken countries around the globe...so be considerate, in exposing your wealth and pride when you glamourize your beloved breed, many cannot sustain and more so in failing to comprehend the injustice or inbalance given or shown.
YB.
