As Mother's Day approaches, The Humane Society of the United States asks supporters from around the globe to remember the mother dogs suffering in puppy mills, spending their lives in
cramped wire cages, often with barely enough food and water to stay alive as they churn out puppies for sale at pet stores and online.
Many spend their entire lives inside
cramped wire cages, typically receiving no medical care or even a pat on the head.
The legislation was a response to appalling conditions in many large commercial breeding kennels, where dogs spent most of their working lives inside
cramped wire cages, stacked one atop the other, and got little grooming, veterinary care or exercise.
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The dogs housed in the state's commercial breeding operations typically spend their lives in tiny,
cramped,
wire - floored
cages that are stacked on top of each other, often outdoors, with no protection from the elements.
Dogs at puppy mills typically receive little to no medical care; live in squalid conditions with no exercise, socialization or human interaction; and are confined inside
cramped wire - floored
cages for life.
Non-stop video images showed dogs in
cramped and crowded quarters, turning exercise wheels like
caged gerbils, wallowing in mud, suffering from untreated illnesses and injuries, being unable to walk on solid ground after a lifetime on
wire floors, showing fear of people, and victimized by having pipes rammed down their throats to destroy their vocal chords to stop barking.
Under current AWA regulations, breeding dogs can spend their entire lives in
cramped, stacked
wire cages.
These poor dogs were confined in
cramped, barren
wire cages with little food and water and no protection from the elements.
More than 170 dogs and puppies were intensively confined in
cramped, filthy, barren
wire cages positioned over months of accumulated waste.
The breeding mothers and fathers are usually kept in horrible conditions, either outside, regardless of weather, with no shelter, in filthy,
cramped buildings, or in
cages with
wire bottoms that barely have enough room for the dog herself.