Sentences with phrase «living in a wire cage»

Many of the mill dogs spend their entire lives in a wire cage.
«The improved standards of care described in this measure will mean less suffering for thousands of adult breeding dogs which currently spend their entire lives in wire cages.
She had very little medical care during that time and so arrived in rescue with horrible dental problems, an infected former surgical site and several mammary tumors, not to mention the psychological problems from years of living in a wire cage.
Most of these breeding dogs receive absolutely no vet care, live in wire cages stacked high and never ever get to touch the ground.
Hamsters can live in a wire cage, an aquarium or a plastic cage with built - in tunnels and hideaways.

Not exact matches

«Cage Free» - Similar to «Free Range» this means that the birds may not live in wire cases per say, but they most likely live in a large enclosure with thousands of other birds with very little space.
«It was a tremendous impact on our rescue because we were about to go from keeping cats quarantined in wire cages to being able to quarantine in much more sterile, easier to clean and maintain and space saving,» Animal Life founder Bryan Rouse said, adding.
Breeding dogs typically spend their entire lives in tiny, wire - bottom cages barely bigger than the dogs themselves.
Egg hens live in battery cages, wire enclosures no bigger than an i - pad where up to 10 birds are held together... anyone with claustrophobia can sympathize with this maddening experience.
She was force bred at every heat cycle, lived in an overcrowded wire cage and received no vet care.
Sore Hocks (Hutch Sores): Sore Hocks are infected and ulcerated wounds on the underside of the feet that result most often from over exposure to wire flooring on cages or lack of movement from living in a small enclosure.
The animals kept by these businesses generally live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions — sometimes in wire - floored cages stacked in tall columns — without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization.
Teddy spent the first seven years of his life trapped inside a wire cage in a dark, overcrowded puppy mill.
Dogs bred in these facilities tend to live in small wire cages with little or no attention, no exercise and mostly lack of veterinary care.
According to KPAX News, most of the dogs at the kennel lived in crowded wire cages — their feet had never touched the ground.
Breeding dogs in puppy mills have no real quality of life, often living continually in small wire cages with little or no personal attention, exercise or veterinary care.
Why can \» t you feel sorry for the parent dogs who are suffering in wire cages, living in their own feces?
They saved dogs just like me who spent their lives living in small wire cages; never having the opportunity to run and play, not knowing what a soft bed is, or the kind touch of a human hand.
An anonymous tip in 2011 lead to the rescue of 97 dogs living in rusted wire cages in a Tennessee puppy mill.
at a very young age... the parent dogs are left behind to suffer, often spending their entire lives in small, filthy wire cages without ever becoming part of a family.»
As the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) notes on its website, «under USDA standards, it is legal to keep dozens or even hundreds of breeding dogs in small wire cages for their entire lives with only the basics of food, water and rudimentary shelter.»
Breeding dogs never get to leave the mill but spend their entire lives in tiny wire cages, deprived of basic medical care, food, and water.
If it were not for Sook, many of these dogs would have spent their short lives in filthy wire cages surrounded by the other frightened animals before becoming victims of the industry.
Strader said the dogs» owner was living in a school bus and the dogs were kept in wire cages outside with just boards placed over the tops of the cages as shelters.
Prior to being rescued, our dogs spend their entire lives in small wire cages with only one purpose in life; to produce puppies.
There are many websites that lead you to believe you are getting a puppy from a very happy place, when the truth is that the breeding dogs are living in small wire cages in a freezing cold (or scalding hot) barn out back.
A typical retired «breeder dog» is 5 - 7 years old, has spent its entire life in a small filthy wire cage, has been bred literally almost to death, and in most cases has never received any veterinary care.
For example, a dog can be kept for his entire life in a tiny, wire - floored cage that's stacked upon other cages and only six inches longer than he is in each direction.
In the documentary, Kathleen Summers, manager of The HSUS's Puppy Mill campaign, explains, «At puppy mills, dogs basically spend their entire lives in small wire cageIn the documentary, Kathleen Summers, manager of The HSUS's Puppy Mill campaign, explains, «At puppy mills, dogs basically spend their entire lives in small wire cagein small wire cages.
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.
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.
That pup or kittens parents may still be living in tiny wire cages with no opportunity to exercise or socialize with other animals or humans.
It's unfortunate but true that large - scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs bred continuously to exhaustion.»
But, as long as pet shops are permitted to sell dogs, «puppy mill» dogs will suffer horrible pain & miserable lives in a cage without ever placing their wire sore paws on the ground, without vet care, without socialization, with no love, human companionship, and no way out.
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.
Under the federal Animal Welfare Act, it is completely legal to keep a dog in a cage only six inches longer than the dog in each direction, with a wire floor, stacked on top of another cage, for the dog's entire life.
All dogs deserve better than a life a life in a small, stacked, wire cage,» said Greg Willey, executive director of the Elyria - based Friendship Animal Protective League.
At the lab, they may have had irritated or infected paws from living in a cage with a wire bottom.
The dogs are usually kept in wire cages to allow for excrement to fall away from the surfaces of the living area.
In commerical breeding facilities they live in small cages and stand on wire their whole liveIn commerical breeding facilities they live in small cages and stand on wire their whole livein small cages and stand on wire their whole lives.
At the Namyangju farm, dogs including golden retrievers, spaniels, beagles, greyhounds as well as Korean jindos and mastiffs, were being kept in filthy and deprived conditions, spending their whole lives in rows of barren wire cages, exposed to the elements and with no veterinary care whatsoever.
It's not the traditional wire cage that sticks out like a sore thumb in the middle of your living room.
In puppy mills, dogs spend their whole lives in small, filthy wire cages without adequate veterinary care, socialization, or exercisIn puppy mills, dogs spend their whole lives in small, filthy wire cages without adequate veterinary care, socialization, or exercisin small, filthy wire cages without adequate veterinary care, socialization, or exercise.
The breeding «stock» suffers a constant misery living in small hutch - style cages with wire floors.
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.
If you live in a colder climate, you may opt for a plastic or glass cage instead of a wire cage.
Breeding dogs are treated like production machines, and can spend their entire lives in small, stacked, wire cages, often without veterinary care, exercise, socialization, or meaningful human interaction.
Under current AWA regulations, breeding dogs can spend their entire lives in cramped, stacked wire cages.
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.
The animals, including nursing mothers, puppies and older dogs, were living in filthy, wire - bottomed cages — many in the dark in locations without proper ventilation.
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