Not a rescue puppy....

I am a volunteer dog walker at the local animal shelter. Yesterday was our really big to do black and white event as a fund raiser. People were bidding thousands of dollars on Pittsburgh Penguines' autographed jerseys, hocky stick, plus all kinds of fancy food, band, and all of that.
While voluntering at the event, the conversation went to how many and what kind of dogs we had.
One of the peer volunteer said to me " I didn't know that you had a puppy. Where did you get your puppy?" I didn't know what to say. I did tell them that Charlie was from the breeder and reason why I went that route. I still got chewed up... and was told " I hope you didn't go to PetLand for the hybred! " I do care for the animals at the shelter, and I do my best to provide what I can for them. I try teaching the leash walking, I bath, brush and trim them, walk them hours in the middle of the winter with snow piling up on my head, whatever I can to make them more adoptable, I do. I thought I made a good decision that rescue is not going to work - at least for right now because of the personality of my old Chow Chow and the fact he is not neutered ( due to my ignorance in earlier time and too old to go through now) plus I went through some fear phase of thoughts that he is not going to make it through the winter, and felt as needing a second dog in preparation to ease the event if occur as soon as possible.....

Sorry, It may sounds like I am trying to justify my decision. But I always feel guilty that my puppy is not a rescue.

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