Sentences with phrase «females is a puppy mill»

A breeder that sells to research, animal brokers and pet shops, and breeds more than three females is a puppy mill.

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At many puppy mills, dogs live in squalid conditions, and female dogs are «bred continuously to exhaustion,» Springsteen wrote.

In puppy mills, dogs live in small cages, often in the minimum legal size allowed (only six inches larger than the dog on all sides) and female dogs are bred as frequently as possible.

In my quest to adopt a rescue dog, I came upon a female that had been over-bred in a puppy mill.

Many people who care deeply about animals are not always aware of the connection between the pet store puppy and the breeding female trapped for life in a mill.

When a female dog from a puppy mill is no longer a good «producer» (i.e. too old to have puppies), they are often killed.

The puppy mill formula is simple,... buy any registered (AKC or one of the new «fake» registries like CKC) male and any AKC registered female, and start making puppies.

According to msnNOW, female mill dogs like Lizzy are made to endlessly breed litters of puppies with little care for the mother's health.

Many of the mill dogs we rescue are about to be euthanized because they are no longer considered «profitable» by the puppy mill — a 7 - month old puppy is too old to sell at a pet store; a 9 - year old female is no longer producing large enough litters; or there are health issues that would cost money to treat.

It won't affect me, because I only have two females, but I am usually all for anything that helps shut down puppy mills!

I've been a dog owner and part time breeder for over 30 years (no puppy mills just a litter if I have a very special female, then just one litter).

Female dogs in puppy mills are bred continuously throughout their lives until they no longer produce puppies, at which time they are destroyed.

These mills turn out as numerous puppies as you possibly can inside a single year, frequently reproduction females as quickly as one litter is supplied.

The dogs living in puppy mills live in small, filthy cages and the females are forced to breed constantly.

Female dogs in puppy mills used for breeding are usually kept in highly unsanitary conditions, receive little or no medical care, and live in small cages with little social interaction.

My female Weim was adopted from a puppy mill and had many of the skittish tendencies associated with dogs from puppy mills.

Female dogs formerly used for breeding in puppy mills are kept in tiny cages, and thus become used to being surrounded by waste.

Compared to the breeder we got our GSD from, whom I'm almost positive now was nearly puppy mill, who didn't interview, who lowered the price to $ 100 because they «couldn't get rid of her» and couldn't continue breeding because the female was too obsessed with her 10 - week - old pup to worry about their male, who disappeared off the charts after we got our pup... there's bad breeders out there.

Every store denied doing so, but an eager young salesman at a pet outlet in one of the Traders Village flea markets went further to assuage our fears, telling us that puppy mills are hardly even a problem anymore because a national law passed in 2009 limits all breeders to only five female breeding dogs.

I started out with two shitzus litter mates both males and then my son and daughter - in - law adopted a yorkie, female, from the humane society that was a puppy mill puppy.

You are also sparing a female dog in a puppy mill from producing yet another litter for a pet store.

Now suppose that instead of having 25 females, the breeder has 45 females and 5 males — 180 puppies or 315 puppies — sounds an awful lot like a puppy mill to me with the puppies being the cash crop.

After fostering and then adopting a little cocker spaniel named Karmen, a breeding female at a puppy mill, Kathy realized that the best way to work with Karmen was through clicker training.

She's 8, A male yorkie, who's 6, a female yorkie who's 4, a puppy mill rescue yorkie who's about 8, and a little troublemaker Malchi (maltese and chihuahua) who's 2, lol.

When we see older female dogs arriving in to rescue who haven't been spayed until later in life, after multiple litters of puppies and / or from a puppy mill type situation, there is a much greater likelihood that they may have mammary (or other) tumors compared to those who were fixed at a young age.

In many cases, records aren't kept, which means that the owners of the puppy mill have no idea how many times that a female dog has produced litters.

Since the majority of puppy mills are focused on boosting their profits, this means that breeding females are given hardly any time to recover before being bred again.