Puppy mills

I dont know about other places but here the shelters are terrible. This girl thats friends with my sister worked at one of them. She said their stuck in their cages most of the day, walked for ten to fifteen minutes and put back in the cage. She said if its a black dog, it has a week. If its not adopted its euthanized!! If its an aggressive breed it has 3 days and its put down. Terrible! I would absolutely never be able to.work at one and see these poor dogs each day! Then the shelter charges $100-$150 per dog. Gosh they must make a fortune at those prices!!! They say they want people to adopt them but holy geez, lower your prices then if you really care about the well being of the animals and not just the money! They recieve the bare minimum vet care here. If its any major health problems (blindness, hip displaysia, deaf, etc) they are euthanized immediately. No chance for a good life at all. It broke my heart when she told me all of these things. I adopted my baby off craigslist. The guy told us he was bringing her to the shelter that day. I could not let that happen, she is black and a rott! She would have had 3 days! :( If I had the money I would adopt as many animals as my house would allow just so they would have better lives. Unfortunately I am not rich. It really ticks me off with all the breeders out there who keep breeding even though shelters are packed! Quit breeding animals and there would be more love and attention for them!! I dont think it will ever stop and the poor animals are the ones suffering because of it. =( All for a little money...

My sister and I have both adopted dogs from a rescue about an hour from where we live. They take in so many dogs from puppy mill raids. My sister's Yorkie mix was a mill mom. When she first adopted her, she couldn't walk well (or any real distance at all) and she has a very unusual way of laying down when she sleeps. This comes from years spent in a cage with no exercise. Many of the dogs that arrive at the rescue have ear infections, eye infections and worse. They don't get any veterinary care because those kinds of infections don't stop them from making more babies and don't affect the health of the litter. Treating them would cost money and take time... neither of which are allotted to these dogs. They even had three sibling puppies recently that were each born blind... all because some backyard breeder was trying to generate "designer dogs" of a specific color and had no clue what they were doing. With one of the recently-rescued dogs, the volunteers thought she might have neurological damage because any time someone touched her, she would just fall over. These dogs don't know love... they don't trust people... and they shouldn't. They've been abused and it shows. Abuse doesn't just mean physically manhandling an animal. I agree with what has been said... please don't shop... adopt! It's not unheard of for pet shops to tell people that they get their dogs directly from the breeders. No reputable breeder would allow their puppies to be housed and sold through a pet shop... ever. Don't buy through Kijiji, ebay or those types of sites. Go to a rescue, the SPCA, etc., where they get the animals proper veterinary care, spay or neuter them so their baby-making days are over and where they often take the time to screen potential adoptive families to match up the right dog with the right living situation. It was one year yesterday since I adopted my Charlie and I could not be happier!

I only got to know about puppy mills and how horrendous the situation are when I saw one documentary about the puppy mills in the US. I decided that I will never buy any dog again from any pet store. Since then we only have Askals or if we have dog with breeds they were only given by friends who can no longer take care of them. I do hope that one day this will stop and will no longer be tolerable. There's a lot of dogs in the shelter who needs care. No need to overpopulate them by making the dogs breed again and again. Its so sad for me as a dog owner.

It is pretty shocking to see the condition of the dogs in a puppy mill. Those mill owners ought to be locked up for a long time. However, those licensed mills, they treat the dogs better. So in the event you are looking for a pet dog, asked the seller to show you around the mills. Those who are willing to show you around, then they are fine. Avoid those that flatly refuse your request. But before you think of buying one, consider adopting instead.

i don't know what puppy mills are but i don't like seeing puppy's or any animals in cages....

I remember in college we did some assignment on this and I was shocked at how stupid some people are. Now all my cats are either strays, abdonded, or adopted, my parents dogs were from a rescue, and my bunny was adopted as well. I would never buy from a petstore period, no matter what. Unless its from the Humane Society, and possible shelters. I know some PetSmart to rack up business post animals from shelter to drum up business thinking they care sort of speaking. But normally I reaearch the animal and where its coming from. I wont get it from say Kijiji, or any place either. I remember on a Facebook group some lady was selling Chinchillas and rabbits. I asked her the basics is it fixed, vet check, adn age she oculdnt provide that so I told her off. I went to PetSmart to buy things for the brats and my sister insists on looking at the animals. They were clearly sick, and it was so sad. One was puking stuff up and they left it in the cage. Many dont think of it, and dont care where it comes from until it gets sick then many wouldnt keep it anyways. I remember when I brought home Patches & Stripes everyone was telling me to just give them away as they cost too much money and the vet bill is ridiculous and I could find cutier kittens elsewhere. They are the most loving cats with the biggest personalities. Its sad and I always wonder do they remember their lives before. I mean you bring them home and they are here but whatever happened to them before will they remember that.

I agree. My former SIL used to work at a pet store and the only way they took puppies or kittens were from people who obviously had well taken care of pets who had a litter.

Some people are never going to care about it, and there is no way to 'make' them understand. I first heard the term 'puppy mill' 7 years ago after moving to Pennsylvania, prior to that I had not heard of them. And unless you can wipe out greed for money, you won't wipe them out. There were stories every week of law enforcement going in and clearing another puppy mill. For those that do care, not all pet stores buy from puppy mills or other such breeders. If it is a reputable pet store, you can ask, and they can tell you where the puppy came from, the breeder, etc. I have never bought a puppy from a pet store, not because of the breeder issue, but because of the price they sale them for.

The worse thing is people think they help the puppies from the petshop if they take them home! They can't see behind the beautiful pup. You know we hardly can resist to a furry ball with lovely eyes. Unfortunately people don't want to think to the backstage of the petshops. The places where there is so much pain and distress. We must do all we can to make negative publicity to puppy millers. There are campaigns against them on Facebook and we must share them so that more and more people will be aware of what a puppy mill is.