Your Sick New Dog by Melissa Jackson Williams
Puppy mills have become an area of great concern for those who legitimately breed puppies for animal rights activists all over the United States beyond. Puppy mills basically seek to "mass produce" puppies from relatively few purebred studs mothers. This is wrong for a number of reasons. First of all mothers themselves are "overbred" to the point of exhaustion then often put down because they can't produce any more. The puppies produced in these places are often kept in deplorable conditions with overcrowded cages too little food or water as well as inadequate access to veterinary care grooming.
Human contact is sparse to none in these mills many puppies don't make it. While life is only like this temporarily for those dogs that are sold those that are there for breeding are stuck in such conditions until they are deemed unfit for further breeding. At this point they are often killed or sold to another breeding facility. In essence a puppy mill is puppy factory.
Despite the horrors of these conditions many loving pet owners animal lovers unwittingly buy animals from puppy mills. Of course you don't want to buy your dog from a facility that advocates such conditions but unfortunately you may still; literally hundreds of thousands of puppies are basically "manufactured" sold from these types of facilities every year. Depending on where you purchased your own puppy you may have a puppy mill in your house without even knowing it.
Puppy mill puppies get sold to the public in a number of different ways. Many pet shops in fact purchase their puppies through puppy mills. Therefore when you walk into a pet shop there's a good chance that the adorable puppy you're taking a look at started its life in a puppy mill. Still other puppy mill sales occur on the Internet or through breeder sites online.
Many of these ads stores even indicate that the dog was raised on a farm or with a family. There is no way of proving this these claims do very well at fooling many families with the best intentions who are looking to do their part to end puppy mills.
If you want to stop puppy mills from doing their business take heart; you certainly can do your part. Legislation is underway in many areas that would put a stop to puppy mills but there's a fine blurry line between legitimate breeding operations that have a lot of dogs the actual definition of a puppy mill. In fact many legitimate breeders who simply breed a lot of dogs are wrongly accused many puppy mills falsely identify themselves as legitimate breeders are left to their own devices.
Those who want to do their part in putting puppy mills to a stop can do so in several ways. First off don't buy dogs or cats for that matter from a pet store.
Consider giving a loving home to a puppy or kitten from a shelter instead. You won't get a purebred animal true but you will get an adorable family member for a fraction of the cost you would pay for so called "purebred" puppy mill offspring you'll know you'll be giving a loving home to some puppy or kitten who may otherwise be euthanized because there aren't enough homes to go around. If you want a tiny dog you can do this simply by choosing your pet carefully. Yes even if you want to "bring a baby" home you can do that. Avoid newspaper classified ads when it comes to purchasing your pet too. Oftentimes puppy mills sell their animals this way.
Puppy mills are an animal lover's worst nightmare. No dog deserves to live in such conditions but the issue can never end if these businesses continue to profit from their cruel endeavors.
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