How you can help stop Puppy Mills
- Adopt your next pet– If you are planning on getting a new family pet then consider adopting one. Even if you are thinking about getting a certain breed just check out your local animal shelter. If you are not satified, then check other shelters. If you buy a puppy from a pet store or online, you are more than likely supporting a puppy mill. I guarentee you that there is a puppy waiting for you at a animal shelter, waiting for you to come take it home.
- Don’t buy a puppy online or at the pet store- Buying a puppy from a pet store or online is helping support puppy mills. It increases their profit and makes puppy mills more stronger. Not buying animals from pet stores or online, it can really make puppy mill profits go down and slowly helps close down puppy mills.
- Spread the word- Educate your family, friends, co-workers, the public about what puppy mills are really about. Tell them the ways that can help slow down puppy mill bussiness and share to them how important it is to adopt from an animal shelter.
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/actions.html
The website above tells you more ways to help stop Puppy mills.
Puppy Mill Breeding
Puppy mills are all about breeding, all about creating more and more puppies so they can sell them to local pet stores. But did you know that female canines start breeding at the age of six months? This is a VERY young age for dogs to start breeding. Its unhealthy for dogs to breed at such a young age due to the amount of nutrients they do not fully have yet. Female breeders never have rest between each breed. They usually breed about 4-5 times a year and thats about all they can breed because they have no energy yet. Do you know what they do to those poor dogs? They shoot them. They shoot them and take them to the landfill. The female breeders have it the worst. They breed then die. They don’t have time to play, they don’t get to relax in a warm place, they don’t have a yard to run in. None of them know what its like to be loved, no decent food, no clean water, no vetenarian care. Can you imagine the life of the puppies? Just as worse. Can you imagine seeing your mom one day then the next you get taken away and you never see her again? Can you imagine not seeing your brothers and sisters. Going to one place to another. Puppy mills are a living hell, its the worst thing I could ever imagine.
Article: PUPPY MILLS: Misery for Sale
In this article it informs readers how really awful and how much puppies are in danger.
“The sad faces peered from plastic crates stacked four high and crammed into the back of the broken-down truck in Tennessee. The air conditioner was not working, and the temperature inside was 100 degrees. A mechanic heard whimpering and discovered that 1.50 purebred puppies constituted the vehicle’s cargo. Four were dead; the survivors, traumatized and suffering from heat exhaustion, could barely hold up their heads.” In a newspaper there was an article about this incident. More and more people started hearing about this and couldn’t believe it. The animals were property from a man in missouri, the truck was on its way to deliver the puppies to a pet store to be sold. Can you imagine traveling from missouri all the way to Tennessee? All crammed up in a crate with other frightful, sick, puppies? Some puppies passed out from heat exhaustion, others on the death edge from starvation and sickness. Having no air conditioning, and no food or water. Especially from the long ride across america. And the worst thing? Tennessee probably wasn’t even the destination for the puppies. It was a miracle that the truck broke down. If not for that miracle, if those puppies did arrive to the destination…more puppies would have died.
“Life is miserable for the puppies but still worse for their mothers. “They are kept in tiny cages their entire lives and receive no care and are inadequately nourished,” says Dug Hanbicki, a companion animal specialist for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The dogs are bred during first heat and every six months thereafter until their reproductive capacity drops at the age of four or five; then they are killed, asserts Hanbicki and others working for reform.” From the time that the female breeders are born, when they hit about six months, they have to start breeding. Which is absolutely BAD. The females aren’t fully grown and doesn’t have all the nurtients they need to breed. Which causes them to become exetremely weak and sick. Those mothers never got to feel love, never had a family that fed them right and gave them clean water and a nice warm place to sleep. They never felt comfortable, never got to play and be energized. Most of them never get to see the light, to breathe fresh air, never had a warm place to sleep. Those mothers never got to have a playful and wonderful life like puppies SHOULD have. All they do is get breed and die.
Rescue Vs. Pet Store
Think about it. Rather than spending hundreds and thousands on a puppy from a Pet Store, go to a local animal shelter and check out the puppies they have. Not only do animal shelters have rescued animals but they vaccinate and spay or neuter the animals, along with a simple adoptation fee. If you buy a puppy from the Pet Store chances are your puppy has a diesease or infirmities such as; ticks, heartworm, fleas, pneunomia, kennel cough, intestinal parasites, chronic diarrehea, and much more. Not only the chances are high of getting a puppy with a diesease but also getting a puppy that is filled with fear, anxiety, aggression, and exetreme shyness. When getting a puppy from a animal shelter, the puppy would be a normal puppy that you would see in the movies, all filled with energy and joy, so playful and bright. And most of all, feeling loved because you gave the puppy a home. A rescued puppy a loving home. Don’t get me wrong, the puppies at the pet stores also need a home. But the more you purchase a puppy from a pet store the more profit puppy mills will get. Which means more torture and misery for the puppies at the mills. But not buying a puppy from a pet store is good, believe it or not. It helps lower the profit and it will leave the puppy mill producing fewer and fewer puppies. I believe every animal deserves a good home, but adopting a rescued would be the best thing to do.
Puppy Mills
Puppy mills is a dog breeding facility that mostly, only cares about making increasing profit rather than the health of the animals living in the cages. Most of the time, the puppies would grow up and spend most of their time in a crowed cage with other puppies with barely any room to play in, barely any room to move. The bowls for their water and food would be contaminated, crawling with bugs. This would leave the puppies malnourished. Puppies from the puppy mills are mostly found with ear infections, tooth decay, swollen/bleeding paws, dehydration, blind, and more. Most puppy mills have NO veterinary care to help aid the puppies, and most do not have climate control or protection from the weather (heat,snow,rain,etc). Puppy Mills also have no clean up control, which means for periods of times puppies would be surrounded by their and other puppies urine and feces, which can cause more dieases. But to minimize clean up, puppies are usually placed in wired floored cages that injures their paws and legs, leaving untreated due to no animal aid then increases in chance of infection. The behavior problem that puppy mill pups usually show are fearful and lack of socialization from humans and other animals.
Adopting an animal from a local animal shelter
If you are thinking of adopting an animal for you and your family, your local animal shelter would be the best start in my opinion. Instead of going straight to a Pet Store check your local animal shelter first. Most Pet stores recieve their animals from puppy mills. Puppy mills are the worst place to get animals from. If you are not familiar with puppy mills, it is absolutely something you and others should and need to look into if you are thinking of getting your new furry little friend from a Pet Store. The photo below is an example of what puppy mills look like.
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