Visualize walking into a pet store and having puppies give the heartbroken looks in their considerable big teary eyes. People get tempted to take these puppies home because they just plead and hit every nerve. However, many people do not look at the puppies and wonder where they came from. By spending money on a puppy from a pet store, individuals begin supporting an ugly industry. This industry is known as puppy mills. Puppy mills are known for, “a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs” (“ Puppy Mill FAQs”). They are also easily distinguished by their inhumane environment and the continuous reproduction of unhealthy and genetically ill dogs solely for financial gain. The modern rate of puppies in puppy mills, “produce more than 2,000 puppies a week” (Zara). Puppy mills make dog’s life mistreated lives, however, this can be changed. All puppy mills should be banned, because of their cruelty to the poor innocent animals.
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Because the puppies are never allowed out of their cages, this can cause dogs to become mentally unstable. It is not uncommon to see dogs barking and running in circles. They have no social interaction with people and are never given toys or treats. This also makes it difficult for the dogs to become a part of a forever home. When they do find their forever home, “puppy mill puppies often arrive in pet stores and in their new homes with the diseases or infirmities ranging from parasites to pneumonia” (“ Puppy Mill FAQs”). With pet stores not aware in the first place of the animals arriving with the diseases they don't inform people about the future troubles the animal might come in contact with. Sometimes they have a hereditary disease and the problems would not start showing up until the animals get older in
Because the puppies are never allowed out of their cages, this can cause dogs to become mentally unstable. It is not uncommon to see dogs barking and running in circles. They have no social interaction with people and are never given toys or treats. This also makes it difficult for the dogs to become a part of a forever home. When they do find their forever home, “puppy mill puppies often arrive in pet stores and in their new homes with the diseases or infirmities ranging from parasites to pneumonia” (“ Puppy Mill FAQs”). With pet stores not aware in the first place of the animals arriving with the diseases they don't inform people about the future troubles the animal might come in contact with. Sometimes they have a hereditary disease and the problems would not start showing up until the animals get older in