I have never encountered anti-rescue sentiment from anyone. Evah. lol
I did have some people in a class I was teaching gasp when I said Keeva was from a breeder. LOL. I chuckled.
In my area, the general sentiment is that the gright thing to do is rescue. People who do buy dogs from breeders are often kind of like, "Well, we know it was totally selfish but we just couldn't find any Shiba Inu puppies in rescue, so we're terrible people, we know." lol okay...
I... just really could care less at this point. You think I'm a bad person for buying a corgi? Ok.
I think you're really dumb, then.
But yeah, I know it's kind of shocking to see that level of ignorance and hatred from somebody you thought was a friend.