Sentences with phrase «most commercial breeders»

Most commercial breeders use wire flooring on their cages so the feces and urine are able to fall through the openings.

Most commercial breeders are responsible dog owners who lovingly tend to the animals in their care.

My friend tried to explain that dogs sold at pet stores typically come from inhumane breeding factories known as puppy mills, and that most commercial breeders — no matter what they advertise — are guilty of mistreatment.

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But the company maintains it holds high standards for its dogs and that there is a difference between commercial breeders and puppy mills: «We pride ourselves on our most diligent efforts to find healthy puppies.

While pet stores and commercial breeders often use the newspaper to advertise, most of the ads for puppies and kittens found in the classifieds are placed by private people.

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.

Most pet stores get their animals from commercial breeders located in the Midwest.

Shipping records prove that most of our local pet stores work with out - of - state commercial breeders «puppy mills», even though the dogs are marketed as «AKC certified» or from «reputable» or «USDA licensed» breeders.

Most breed club's Code of Ethics state that their breeders refuse to sell their dogs to pet dealers or any other commercial sources of distribution.

The HSUS's annual Horrible Hundred reports, based on federal and state inspections of commercial animal breeders, provide a window into some of the nation's most retrograde puppy mills.

Most of the breeders who sell dogs at auction are commercial, which means they have at least four breeding females, sell to intermediaries and are federally regulated.

A: Most puppies in pet stores come from licensed commercial breeders.

Thomson told The Washington Post that she and her husband regularly visit the 50 different commercial breeders, most often in Missouri and Iowa, from whom they source their puppies to vouch for their living conditions.

Unlike the others, chiefly commercial breeders looking for healthy brood dogs and studs, Strader was scouting for the dogs most likely to be destroyed if they weren't sold.