While buying purebred puppies can be a tempting and aesthetically desirable purchase, a majority of puppies bought from pet shops are directly from puppy mills. These puppy mills are known as large-scale commercial dog breeding facilities which give revenue priority over the well-being of the dogs and puppies, ultimately resulting in sickly and unhealthy animals. Due to this, many of the dogs that pet stores carry today have faced a life of malnutrition, disease, and abuse. Despite the immense abuse the dogs and puppies of the puppy mills endure, the large scale breeding of animals is still legal, forcing innocent animals to live in cruel conditions until they are ultimately moved to pet shops, or killed. Altogether, in order to protect the lives of innocent animals, puppy mills
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Currently, puppy mills are spreading throughout the entire country, and even overseas. Due to this, 99% of the puppies that are in pet stores or online are directly from puppy mills (http://www.humanesociety.org/dont-buy-into-puppy-mills.html Accessed 4/21/18). Despite the “cute” faces many of the animals have, each puppy was born for the pure profit of the breeders. Due to this, many mother dogs have faced years of cruel treatment by their breeders. In this, “breeder dogs” are faced with cruel treatment which includes cage confinement, frequent and forced reproduction, abuse, and cruel deaths. In many cases of puppy mill breeding, breeding parents are kept in 24 hour containment cages, where they are left unprotected from the heat, cold, and other inclement weather conditions. These dogs are also fed inadequately, deprived of water, and forced to drink out of bowls
Currently, puppy mills are spreading throughout the entire country, and even overseas. Due to this, 99% of the puppies that are in pet stores or online are directly from puppy mills (http://www.humanesociety.org/dont-buy-into-puppy-mills.html Accessed 4/21/18). Despite the “cute” faces many of the animals have, each puppy was born for the pure profit of the breeders. Due to this, many mother dogs have faced years of cruel treatment by their breeders. In this, “breeder dogs” are faced with cruel treatment which includes cage confinement, frequent and forced reproduction, abuse, and cruel deaths. In many cases of puppy mill breeding, breeding parents are kept in 24 hour containment cages, where they are left unprotected from the heat, cold, and other inclement weather conditions. These dogs are also fed inadequately, deprived of water, and forced to drink out of bowls