Dogs are usually held in small,
crowded wire cages and provided with the bare minimum of care required to keep them alive.
HSUS investigators found stench and
crowded wire cages; website offers to ship puppies, without the required USDA license.
Breeding dogs in such facilities are typically confined to tiny,
crowded wire cages and provided with the bare minimum of care required to keep them alive.
According to KPAX News, most of the dogs at the kennel lived in
crowded wire cages — their feet had never touched the ground.
Not exact matches
More than 26,000 mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids were saved after PETA revealed horrific abuse at the major pet - trade supplier U.S. Global Exotics, Inc., including animals confined to severely
crowded and filthy soda bottles, milk jugs, litter pans, cattle - feeding troughs, and barren
wire cages as well as employees putting hundreds of sick, injured, and dying animals in a freezer to die slowly and painfully.
They are often
crowded together in small
wire cages and typically receive little social contact with people and little or no professional veterinary care, even when open sores or other wounds are evident.
The film depicted puppy mill dogs living or existing in filthy deplorable conditions, almost all in
crowded cages too small for them to move around much, if at all. The
cages often had chicken
wire for flooring. The dogs were covered in waste, matted and starving with open wounds and other injuries.
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.