Sentences with phrase «kennel is a puppy mill»

Remember not every kennel is a puppy mill, rescues and shelters have kennel inspections too in some states.

HSUS, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and other animal rights groups planted and cultivated this «most kennels are puppy mills» idea in the public consciousness to legitimize themselves in the eyes of animal lovers and to collect tens of millions of dollars in donations.

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Puppy mills are like dog - making factories, with the mother dogs spending their entire lives in cramped cages or kennels with little or no personal attention or quality of life.

Regardless of what the pet store owner tells you, and regardless of the fact that the dog they're selling has AKC (American Kennel Club) papers... dogs sold from pet stores ARE from puppy mills and NOT from quality breeders.

I have been to kennels and seen 5 - 15 bitches all locked up and been bred with one so called stud dog, do you call this betterment of the breed, year right, I call it a puppy mill, no wonder the authorities are wanting to shut down these breeders, and rightly so.

A puppy mills is a commercial business, the kennels are usually overcrowded and there is little or no attention for the puppies needs.

It was breeders in Switzerland, in the Fortunate Fields Kennels, that restored the German shepherd dog after puppy mills in America made it difficult to find good breeding stock for these dogs.

I am trying to find out how we can get laws changed to regulate the breeding (puppy mills and puppy stores), to make spaying and neutering cheaper or free so it's available to everyone — so that there will be fewer dogs going in to the kennels.

Yes there are big and small puppy mills but the big picture is that in the end there will be very few dogs available as to many have cashed in on fighting against kennels, making it impossible for kennel owners to have kennels yet making their own money.

Also named are Hunte Kennel Systems & Animal Care, Inc.; and Hunte Delivery Systems, Inc., subsidiaries of Hunte Corporation, the notorious puppy mill operator and distributor, that supplies the puppies sold by Petland.

Pets from puppy and kitten mills are kept in crowded, unsanitary kennels and many don't have adequate access to veterinary care, food or water, animal advocates say.

A day after Auton and 61 other dogs and puppies were rescued from the deplorable conditions of various puppy mills in the Midwest, the little Shi Tzu mix was nestled safely in the arms of Kennel Manager Rosie Tombolo.

Some online kennels are actually puppy mills too, so do your research before doing business with an online kennel.

This scene is common at puppy mills — this dog was in Pamela Baldwin's Samples Creek Kennel, in Missouri.

The majority of pet stores that sell puppies are getting those dogs from puppy mills, which are dog - making factories where mother dogs spend their entire lives in cramped cages or kennels with little or no personal attention.

** The USDA is responsible for the oversight of all puppy mills (kennels) in this country.

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

A person answering the phone at the Lourances» kennel said simply, «If you are talking about puppy mills, then you are not talking to me.»

The day Morty was rescued from the deplorable conditions of a puppy mill, this little Shih Tzu mix found himself nestled safely in the arms of one of our exceptional kennel managers who noticed immediately that this adorable dog was struggling to breathe.

OldDog Haven in Washington State says, «She was in worse shape than most of the puppy mill dogs, just from neglect, and she would have died in that kennel all alone.»

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.

Since the Continental Kennel Club makes it much easier for interested individuals to register their dogs with them, it should come as no surprise to learn that it has picked up a reputation for being associated with puppy mills.

Lisa Peterson of the American Kennel Club said it is important to seek reputable breeders or breed - specific rescue groups, because puppies sold through pet stores are frequently the products of puppy mills and may not be appropriately screened.

Puppy mills are facilities (kennels, farms, breeders), licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that produce pet store puppies for distribution in the United States and other foreign markets.

Coprophagia is quite prevalent in dogs raised in kennels or in puppy mills.

As we have for many years during our televised broadcast, The Westminster Kennel Club will continue to make the following announcement: «If you are planning to add a dog to your life and have come to look over the best of the best, please note, no dog you have seen here (yesterday or today) came from a pet shop, or was the «product», if you will, of a puppy mill.

Another sign that a puppy you are interested in getting is from a mill is that the breeder will not allow you to actually visit the kennel, but rather wants to arrange a meeting somewhere else, such as the parking lot of a local store.

Bob Baker, executive director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation, attributes the decline to the passage of the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act which raised standards of care and gave authority to the attorney general to prosecute non-compliant or unlicensed kennels (prior to that prosecutions were handled by local district attorneys more sympathetic with puppy millers, he said.)

Brokers are dealers who buy puppies from a multitude of different kennels and puppy mills and then re-sell them to pet stores.

Such attacks can be traced to the attitudes of dog registries and professional breeder organizations, including the American Kennel Club, that lobby intensively against even modest improvements to the welfare of puppy mill dogs.

DF: The American Kennel Club is simply a registry that issues pedigree papers, essentially without any policing of the sources the dogs come from — notably puppy mills.

The HSUS is now working with state officials to create new legislation in North Carolina to crack down on puppy mills like Thornton's Kennels.

«She was accused of running a «puppy mill» after 25 dogs, including newborn puppies, were found in kennels at her ex-husband's Hawaii Kai condo on May 7, 2003, by firefighters responding to a fire that broke out in the kitchen,» wrote Honolulu Star Bulletin reporter Debra Barayuga.

In addition, the American Kennel Club (AKC) and Canadian Kennel Club (CKC) must NOT be willing to issue registration certificates for the puppies born in puppy mills.

The term puppy mill really describes a kennel with filthy conditions, usually where there are too many dogs to care for properly.

Marjorie's Kennel is a breeder that has been repeatedly cited for violating the law and is listed as one of the 101 worst puppy mills in the country by the Humane Society.

that's why kennels and puppy mills and even, for humans, places like schools have such problems containing and controlling any illness, minor or serious.

While registering with the American Kennel Club is a good step, puppy mill dogs can be registered as well.

Puppy mill kennels can be anything from small wood and wire mesh cages to tractor - trailer cabs or simply dogs tethered to trees.

While you and I may have no doubt in our minds as to whether a USDA licensed kennel can be a puppy mill, it is simply our own interpretations — pet stores have a right to their own opinion, so technically, they have not lied to you.

A RECENT investigation by ABC News» 20/20 revealed that many pet stores are supplied with puppies bred under the worst possible conditions.Not to be confused with the American Kennel Club's well - run kennels, these «puppy farms» are little more than horror chambers where dogs are mass - produced for one reason: money.The dogs resulting from these cottage industry puppy mills are, as might be expected, weak, often diseased and crippled.

When rescued from this breeding kennel, Bobbie was what we would define as a puppy mill dog: physically and psychologically damaged.

Kennel cough is a frequent result of shipping young puppies, especially puppy mill puppies.

According to the March 2011 report from the Humane Society of the United States, «Update Report: Missouri's Dirty Dozen Most of the worst puppy mills in Missouri are still licensed», Smith Kennels of Salem, Missouri is one of the worst.

As the ASPCA reports, «puppies from puppy mills are prone to congenital and heredity conditions» including epilepsy, heart disease, kidney disease, parvovirus, giardia, penomonia, and kennel cough, among other troubling conditions.

The worst places to get a pup are pet shops and kennels that get their pups from off - premises sources, since these animals actually come from commercial breeding operations, nicknamed puppy mills.

Puppies acquired from commercial pet shops or so - called «puppy mills», and those coming from shelters, are also more likely to develop kennel cough.

Organizations such as the HSUS (before it joined the animal rights movement) investigated conditions at these farms and eventually were successful in focusing national attention on the repulsive conditions at breeding kennels they labeled as «puppy mills.»

Twenty years ago, people knew that a «puppy mill» was a substandard kennel where unhealthy, overbred dogs were kept in horrendous conditions.

To be clear, we at Dog Owner's Guide believe that kennel conditions and dog health, not numbers or profit motive, determine whether a kennel should be called a puppy mill.