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    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…

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    Puppy mill puppies live in cramped cages, not having room to exercise multiple puppies die and have multiple diseases. But not just that puppies would leave their families behind when they leave. Some do not go to safe homes and it already been bad for them so it just gets worse. Health care and welfare is not a priority to puppy mills. I am here to talk to you about my concern with where you get your puppies. I have done my research and i have found out that you get your puppys from “Known…

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    An estimated 1.2 million puppies are euthanized in shelters a year (The Puppy Mill Project). These dogs are mainly from puppy mills. The dogs that never get adopted are then euthanized. Most animals in pet stores or sold on online sources are from puppy mills. Imagine being confined to a small cage barely big enough to turn around and you are never let out. You don't get enough food and water to be anywhere near healthy. You will sit in your own piles of feces. That is what it is like to be a…

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    “About 99% of puppies from pet stores come from Puppy Mills.”(Madonna of the Hills) Puppy Mills spend most of their time over breeding dogs. Puppy Mills are very unsanitary. Puppy Mills also kill a lot of dogs. So therefore Puppy Mills should be illegal. Puppy Mills should be illegal because they over breed dogs nonstop, They are extremely unsanitary, and they also kill a lot of dogs in the process. For an example how puppy mills over breed says The Puppy Mill project “Mothers are bred every…

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    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…

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    profits grow for puppy mills, more and more people are beginning to forget the humanities involved with animal cruelty. At…

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    blizzard day. Dogs loudly barking, howling, growling, whining trying to be heard by a savior to rescue each one from the horrid abuse. Each dog that lives at a puppy mill does not live at all as most are matted with fur, covered in feces from the dog living in the cage above them, crusted eyes shut, and even diseases. Bial acknowledges that “puppy mills keep breeding dogs in overcrowded, shabby, and unsanitary cages-often rows of cages stacked on top of each other. To make waste cleanup easier,…

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    It can be hard to resist that puppy you see for sale in the window of a pet shop. But a closer look into how these stores obtain these animals reveals a horrifying truth behind puppy mills. There is an enormous demand for purebred puppies in the United States. Approximately 44.8 million American homes have at least one dog as a pet (APPMA). Roughly 90 % of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills (PAWS). There are thousands upon thousands of homeless dogs throughout the United States who need…

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    second part of the problem is: Consumers purchase puppies from pet stores or on the Internet without actually knowing the history behind this puppy. 1. According to the Humane Society of the United States and the Companion Animal Protection Society, approximately nine out of every ten puppies that are sold in pet stores come from puppy mills. The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council states that pet stores sell approximately 300,000 to 400,000 puppies each year in the United States. (from…

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    my mom into the pet store. I loved pressing my face up against the glass and watching the cute little golden retriever or the labrador puppies playing. If I was really lucky, my mom would let me go to the little rooms where you can play with them. I would pick my favorite one, the cutest one, and Jane, my mom and I would play with him or her. I always gave the puppy a name, and when it was time to go, I would beg her to let me keep it. “Please, Mom,” I would repeat, over and over, and when that…

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