Just Say NO

As most people know I am a huge animal lover and my animals are my life. I have always been this way and animals just have this simple innocence about them that seems to be lost in this crazy world. I'm someone who is against puppy mills and puppy farms. Most people don't understand what goes on behind the scenes at these places. Pet stores in which you can buy dogs they get their supply from puppy mills and farms. Yes it's most people love going into pet stores and looking at the new puppies. You would NEVER catch me in a pet store that sells dogs. Now Pet Smart does adopt out cats but they are through private rescue's that save these cats and give them a second chance at life. After you read this post I hope you will have a new change of heart and stay away from pet stores that sells puppies.

A puppy mill or puppy farm is a large dog breeding facility created to mass produce puppies for profit.

Likened to battery hens, the breeding dogs are kept in cages or pens for their entire life with the sole purpose of producing puppies for the pet shop, internet and overseas markets.

Pet shops require a constant supply of cute, young puppies and individual shops can take more than 20 a week. Multiply that by the number of pet shops found in shopping centres throughout America, China, Australia and other countries and you have the perfect distribution network for an industry producing hundreds of puppies with little concern paid to quality, health or temperament.

In Australia these farms have anything from 20 to 1000 breeding females who are kept constantly pregnant or lactating in order to keep up with demand. The health, behaviour and temperament problems found in puppies from puppy mills are well documented and for each cute, fluffy litter of puppies seen in a pet shop window their mother is likely to be suffering the fate of a puppy mill dog.

Puppies from puppy farms often have severe genetic disorders. They are sometimes impossible to housebreak. They are sometimes impossible to train. They are often aggressive, shy, anti-social and have severe behavioural problems.

Dogs in puppy farms are kept in small cages their entire lives. They breed constantly. They often have filthy living conditions, little to no veterinary care, bare minimum of food, dirty water and never see the sun. They have no interaction with people apart from when they’re put into the cage, and when their puppies are taken out of the cage. When they have exhausted their use as breeding dogs, they are dumped at pounds, on the side of the road, killed or left to starve to death.