Sentences with phrase «are puppy mills still»

Why are puppy mills still populating when there has been such an out cry from real animal lovers?

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Among the data still unavailable are the vast majority of reports from regular inspections of animal - holding facilities that are monitored under AWA, including puppy mills and zoos.

Our successful efforts of last year are still being attacked by a misinformation campaign by breeders who hope to stop the regulation of the puppy mill industry.

Still, dog mills exist because there is demand for puppy trade — some disreputable pet stores get their supplies of young puppies directly from them.

But when you drive by a family - filled pet store selling dogs as if they were toasters, or learn about horrific puppy mills still profiting from cruelty, you begin to realize the adoption message is still not getting out strongly or widely enough.

Despite all the bad press puppy mills are still up and running in full swing.

Buster, a Westie mix, who had a tumor burst; Jazzy, a beautiful Yorkie who came from a puppy mill; and Tyra, a golden retriever mix who has been at the shelter since 2013 are still hoping for families.

John Goodwin, senior director of the stop puppy mills campaign at The HSUS, commented on the latest campaign, «We've had great success in many of our previous efforts, but the fact remains that mills are still operating thanks to support from well - intentioned but unsuspecting buyers.

DELTONA - Authorities on Thursday were still trying to locate the owners of 11 dogs rescued Wednesday from a makeshift puppy mill at a flea - infested house on Newmark Drive.Jerry Swanger, Deltona Animal Control manager, said a warrant had been issued charging John Barcero, the dogs» owner - who lived in the house along with his mother, Barbara Corretjer - with animal neglect and cruelty.

Unfortunately, we still have work ahead for us because many more dogs just like these are still trapped in puppy mills across Quebec and are waiting to be rescued.»

«Think about how long people have been seeing pictures of puppy mills and still they exist, after all this time,» says Johnson.

There are also many puppy mill type breeders who do contribute to the problem and I will still adamantly take a stand against them.

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Brandy is safe, but hundreds of thousands of dogs like her are still confined in small cages in puppy mills — mass breeding operations that house dogs in terrible conditions, solely to produce puppies for profit.

Quebec still holds the name of the puppy mill capital of North America and according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund Quebec is the # 1 capital of animal abuse.

Unfortunately, not everyone can go undercover and unveil puppy mills like the HSUS or Lisa Ling, but there are still many ways the public can help out.

Most people don't want to believe it, but the truth is the cute puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills and the mothers are still there, suffering endlessly, forced to produce yet another litter.

We may be well into the 21st Century, but humankind still has a ways to evolve — and the existence of puppy mills is proof enough of this.

While it's clear there are still several issues facing consumers about the puppy mill industry, for Missouri, it's been a huge step in the right direction.

Come on, they are still puppy mills.»

However, there is still a lot of work to do before the puppy mill industry can be brought to an end.

«When you water down the legislation to allow for some USDA puppy millers, you're still allowing puppy mill sales and it has to stop,» says Meyers.

She says the documentary is important viewing for everyone, «especially those still tempted to buy a puppy from a pet store despite the virtual inevitability that the pup was born of suffering, and the fact that buying a puppy mill puppy will condemn the breeding dogs to a lifetime of misery.»

they need to stop puppy factories for sure but there is nothing wrong with getting your dog or puppy's or kittens from a breeder a reputable one that is not a mill those are horrible but some one has to adopt them too the ones that are alive still the ones they save from mills need love even more

The bad news, according to a survey * released recently by Best Friends Animal Society, is that more than 40 percent of Americans are unaware that virtually all pet stores obtain dogs from puppy mills and nearly one in five people still chose to purchase a new dog at a local pet shop rather than adopt from a shelter or rescue organization.

We sincerely believe a majority of people who are still buying dogs do not know about puppy mills.

Yet there are countless kennels (puppy mills) with numerous cited violations that still continue to operate and keep helpless dogs in squalid torturous conditions.

These pet stores would still be able to source from the worst puppy mills in the country.

Even if you do that does not change the fact that the puppies parents are still suffering in a puppy mill, bred till dead, with little or no care.

While your stats are right off the ASAP site, it still does not address the puppy mill problem, or the auctions, or the brokers, or the pups who are culled if they aren't cute enough or young enough any longer.

The best puppy mill is still a concentration camp for the dogs / cats in them.

Titled «Don't Buy Into Puppy Mills,» this latest work contrasts the innocently imagined origins of puppies with the hidden reality that is the still - thriving puppy mill induPuppy Mills,» this latest work contrasts the innocently imagined origins of puppies with the hidden reality that is the still - thriving puppy mill indupuppy mill industry.

Most of the time, backyard breeders aren't the same level of nightmare that puppy mills are, but pride that they think they've got the best of the breed ever and ignorance of genetic science still isn't an excuse.

Using your brain over your heart, you decide; do you still want to see puppies bred like rats, without health care or socialization, to be bought in pet shops while knowing this makes you part of the problem, or do you want to stand up to for the dogs and help wipe puppy mills of the face of the earth?

Federal care standards are so minimal and enforcement so irregular that licensed kennels still include many so - called puppy mills, which breed and house animals in inhumane conditions, says Cori Menkin, senior director of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals» puppy mills campaign.

Despite the publicity given to seizures of poorly run puppy mills, there are still a large number of facilities, including shelters and animal sanctuaries, where there are major insufficiencies in basic animal care.

Had I painted her with the same brush as puppy mills, without understanding the differences; had I blamed her for the killing being done by animal shelters, when she abhors that and works to stop it, puppy mills would still be unregulated in my state.

Puppy mills are already USDA licensed and still operating.

She is a very quiet girl who spent most of her life in a puppy mill and is still learning how to trust.

This doesn't change the fact that if the puppy was bred in a puppy mill, some unscrupulous individual still profited from the sale of the pup.

Because even if every shelter embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, even if no dog or puppy was killed in a shelter again, we'd still want to close down puppy mills.

But the pet stores here in the States continue to enjoy a healthy trade over the Christmas season, with people still being conned into buying dogs before they are ready and being told that the puppies they are buying are not from the awful puppy mills shown on Oprah.

Harley is a voice for the huge numbers of breeding dogs still living in puppy mills, for which he was named American Humane Association's 2015 American Hero Dog.

«We have people who are looking to do the right thing and adopt, and we want to support them in that, not drive them to backyard breeders or pet shops,» says King, noting that there are still pet stores in the state that sell puppies from breeding mills.

«Unfortunately, there are still thousands of puppy mills throughout the country where dogs continue to suffer.

When puppy mill operators are found to be violating the animal cruelty laws, they can still remain open while they «remedy» their issues.

She spent most of her life in a puppy mill so she's still learning how to enjoy life.

Over the past two years, The HSUS has rescued more than 5,000 puppy mill dogs, and 13 states have passed laws to regulate these deplorable operations, but there is still much to be done.

This is a monumental success and a step in the right direction, but it's important for consumers to understand that puppy mills will find a way to make a profit as long as the demand is still there.

There are still people out there who haven't heard of puppy mills, or who don't understand the connection between puppy mills and puppies purchased online or through pet stores.