Ahh I feel so stupid right now. I have an idea of what puppy mills are but I'm not entirely sure... help? :c
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What is a Puppy Mill?
"Puppy Mills", also known as "commercial breeders" in the eyes of the government, breed thousands of puppies a year for sale to pet shops across the country.
In a world of "pregnancy for profit," most of these dogs are forced to live their entire, sometimes very short lives, in dark warehouses . . . in tiny, crowded, and indescribably filthy conditions. Females are bred continuously until they die.
Between pregnancies, hundreds of dogs compete for attention and food - their bony bodies a testament to inadequate food and water, substandard housing, insufficient exercise and infrequent, if any, veterinary care. Puppies are taken away from their mothers as young as four weeks of age, packed several to a crate, with little food, water, or ventilation and transported to pet stores across the country.
Many times the puppies arrive at the pet stores malnourished or ill; some never make it at all. The people who buy these puppies think they are taking home a healthy, well adjusted companion animal. But sadly, many times they discover they have purchased a dog that has a personality problem, disease, or genetic defect - caused by over breeding, inbreeding, or the unsanitary, squalid conditions at the puppy mill.
Several puppy mill/commercial breeder facilities that are not the filthy norm. The dogs live in fairly clean areas, kennel runs and some even in the house. This does not sound like a typical mill now does it? It is though. It is, because these dogs are bred every time they come into season without doing any genetic testing and they are not even necessarily bred to the same breed.
These dogs may not live several crammed into a wire rabbit cage, may get groomed or may even sleep on someone's bed doesn't change the fact that they are bred every single season until their little bodies are failing.
Bottom line...a puppy mill, or, to be politically correct, commercial breeder, is in business to crank out as many puppies as they can to sell to pet stores, flea markets, on the side of the road, individual ads in the paper and now through internet classified ads.
What is a Puppy Mill?
http://www.hua.org/prisoners/puppymills.
Hundreds of thousands of puppies are raised each year in puppy mills.
Mills are distinguished by their cramped, crude, filthy conditions and the constant breeding of unhealthy and genetically defective dogs solely for profit.
Very often the dogs in puppy mills are covered with matted, filthy hair, their teeeth are rotting and their eyes have ulcers. We have seen many dogs whose jaws have rotted because of tooth decay.
The dogs are kept in small wire cages for their entire lives. They never are allowed out. They never touch solid ground or grass.
Many of the dogs are injured in fights that occur in the cramped cages from which there is no escape.
Many dogs lose feet and legs when they are caught in the wire floors of the cages and cut off as the dog struggles to free themselves.
Very often there is no heat or airconditioning in a puppymill. The dogs freeze in the winter and die of heat stroke in the summer. Puppies "cook" on the wires of the cages in the summer.
Female dogs are usually bred the first time they come into heat and are bred every heat cycle. They are breed until their poor worn out bodies can't reproduce any longer abnd then they are killed. Often they are killed by being bashed in the head with a rock or shot. Sometimes they are sold to laboratories or dumped. This is often by the time they reach five years old.
Puppy mills and pet stores maximize their profits by not spending money on proper food, housing or veterinary care.
The food that is fed in puppy mills is often purchased from dog food companies by the truck load. It is often made of the sweepings from the floor. It is so devoid of nutritional value that the dogs' teeth rot at early ages.
Dogs in puppymills are debarked often by ramming a steel rod down their throats to reputure their vocal cords.
Puppies are taken from their mother when they are 5 to 8 weeks old and sold to brokers who pack them in crates for resale to pet stores all over the country.
The puppies are shipped by truck or plane and often without adequate food, water, ventilation or shelter.
Many of the puppies do not survive the trip.
Innocent families buy the puppies only to find that the puppy is very ill or has genetic or emotional problems. Often the puppies die of disease. Many other have medical problems that cost thousands of dollars. And many have emotional problems because they have not been properly socialized in the mills. Don't bring this misery into your home.
Many of the 4000 federally licensed breeding kennels have substandard conditions.
Approximately 3,500 petstores in the United States sell puppies. They sell approximately 500,000 thousand puppies a year. It is estimated that the puppy industry in Missouri is valued at 40 million dollars a year. The puppy industry in one county in Pennsylvania, Lancaster, is valued at 4 million dollars a year.
There are seven states that are known as puppymill states because they have the majority of the puppymills in the country. They are: Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.
There is federal law, the Animal Welfare Act, and many states have laws that purport to regulate puppymills but the fact is that those laws are rarely enforced.
Our research has shown that 98% of the puppies sold in petstores come from facilities that we consider to be puppymills. Petstores often tell customers that their puppies come from local breeders or quality breeders. Don't believe them, ask to see the paperwork and find out where the puppies really come from. We even heard about a sign in a Massachusetts petstore that said their puppies were lovingly raised in homes in Missouri. Those puppies actually came from the notorious Do-Bo-Tri in Missouri - a puppymill that has been cited numerous times for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
If the people of the United States refused to buy a puppy in a petstore, the misery of puppy mills would end. Please tell everyone you know about puppymills and the petstore connection.
There is no excuse for the abuse of mills to continue. Boycott stores that sell puppies.
It is a place where they breed puppies for the sole purpose of selling them for money. The places are disreputable and conditions are often poor subjecting the animals to disease and poor health
An operation that breeds several different breeds of dog for nothing but profit, with no regards to the dogs' health/temperment.
Here's a link:
Puppy mills are "breeding" centers that cage the parents in tiny cages their whole lives, forcing them to breed to young and at every heat cycle with no concern to the parent's health or the puppie's health.
http://stoppuppymills.org/
Not everyone who breeds for money is a puppy mill.
Backyard breeders are looked down upon for breeding irresponsibly, like not doing genetic testing, but there are many breeders that breed backyard that are responsible, so backyard breeder is generally just a term used to desribe irresponsibilty. Puppy mills are cruel and disgusting, not just irresponsible, so they are two different things.
It's a for-profit breeding operation where dogs are typically housed in crates and repeatedly bred to create as many puppies as possible without regard to the parents' or puppies' well-being.
Another good site regarding puppy mills is provided by the Humane Society of the U.S. (below).
its ok that u dont know. i never really knew until i started reading questions on here either. let me show u the horrors of puppy mills. i think u will find the answer to ur question on this page
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/...
hope this helps
people who continuously breed dogs for profit. the animals are in generally poor condition or sick. kept only for breeding and never free...
It is where females and males are kept and breed back to back with the sole purpose of selling the puppys in quanitees. Usually not well cared for.
something illegal! they have so many dogs having babies and poor shelters for all these animals! It is all bad! they will go to jail if they get caught doing this! If you know someone doing this report it!
Those are great links. Puppy mills are not illegal though. The US and Canadian Government has standards for puppymills (they have a nicer name for them I am sure) and many of them meet these standards. That doesn't mean they're not awful places- it just means our standards are way too low.
Before I didn't know what puppy mills were either. But here is what they are. They breed dogs for money, and all of them are poorly taken care of. Actually, they are never taken care of except for feeding. If you go on YouTube.com and type in puppy mills, there are a lot of movies on them. If you see a dog being sold in a mall, it is from a puppy mill, and if you buy it, that one puppy will keep the puppy mills going. If the dog can't have puppies any more, she is killed. So puppy mills are terrible organizations that people are supporting and don't realize it. Puppy mills are terrible.
oh, don't feel stupid. Lots of people have no idea. At least you are asking the question and are willing to learn. I will warn you, as a dog lover, this stuff is graphic and disgusting.
Do lots of research before you get a dog. Rescue, if you have it in you, or buy from a reputable breeder that lets you see where their dogs are kept and has health certificates and all that.
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