People often get tired of me talking about the cruelty of Puppy Mills. In my opinion we can't talk enough about them. So here we go!!!
WARNING VIDEOS CONTAIN SENSITIVE MATERIAL!!!
Do Not Buy a Puppy From a Pet Store or from a
Back Yard Breeder!!
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First thing we need to remember is that pet stores view dogs and cats as merchandise and not living creatures. Most if not all pet stores get their puppies from a retail distributor. That distributor is either a puppy broker, that buys entire litters from a breeder or from a puppymill, where large numbers of puppies are produced and sold each day. Puppymills do not care about the health of their adult dogs all they care about is the bottom line....How much money will each dog bring. These dogs are nothing but "Cash Cows" to them.
Some of their practices include:
- Breeding females each heat cycle, as early as 6 months old, and not allowing enough healing time in between each litter.
- Breeding unhealthy dogs with known hereditary genetic flaws or breeding until they can't produce anymore or just die from complications
- feed the dogs the cheapest foods, many times just the dust remnants from produced dog foods.
- Bowls are usually full of maggots, bacteria, dirty or just simply empty, which causes dogs to fight for food when it is available.
- Dogs are kept in metal cages barely big enough for 1 dog, much less a litter of puppies. Those cages are usually stacked on top of each other 10 high and are so old and worn that they are hazardous to the dogs causing cuts on legs and paws which leads to infection and sometimes amputation.
- Puppymillers even practice de-barking techniques, this is where the miller takes a rod, pipe or something of the like and ram it down the puppies throat to damage the vocal cords, so the puppy or dog can no longer bark, so the neighbors won't be alarmed by the constant barking and report the mill.
- Most dogs and puppies are unhealthy and sick from being left in urine and feces which exposes them to disease. Most do not get proper vaccines or vet care.
- Long-haired breeds never see a comb or brush. Ulcers will form under the solid mats of fur matted to the skin, sometimes maggots can be found in these ulcers.The validity of being a purebred is always in question.
- Most of the time dogs are not registered to any association and if they are it's ussualy with one that doesn't care about ancestry. If the puppy is registered with the AKC the puppy may have been registered under a number of a different dog.
- Puppymills may sometimes have actions. If you have ever been to one as I have you know how cruel they are. Hundreds sometimes even thousands of dogs are crated and stacked and bid on for the purpose of continuing the cycle.
- When the dogs are auctioned off or sold it's usually to another breeder who plan on doing the same thing . many times the dogs are pregnant or even delivering during the auction. Other reasons for auctions are because the females have become too old and non productive. This is mostly by the age of 5. If an auction is not an option, they are just shot, drowned, or just dumped somewhere to fend for their selves.
- Below are some video clips that are not for the light-hearted. I have seen this treatment first hand. I have been to the auctions and waited untill it was over and rescued the dogs that were going to be killed at the end of the day, had them vetted and found living homes for them.
Video Clips Of PuppyMills
*Warning....some of this video is very disturbing.
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