HSUS profiles one breeding female named CJ, typical of a brood bitch: «The dog, who became known as CJ (short for Calamity Jane), bore all the symptoms of a puppy -
mill breeding female.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
According to msnNOW,
female mill dogs like Lizzy are made to endlessly
breed litters of puppies with little care for the mother's health.
Female dogs in puppy
mills are
bred continuously throughout their lives until they no longer produce puppies, at which time they are destroyed.
The dogs living in puppy
mills live in small, filthy cages and the
females are forced to
breed constantly.
A breeder that sells to research, animal brokers and pet shops, and
breeds more than three
females is a puppy
mill.
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.
Female dogs formerly used for
breeding in puppy
mills are kept in tiny cages, and thus become used to being surrounded by waste.
Imagine a puppy
mill with 50
breeding females and a few stud dogs.
Responsible breeders will «retire» their
females used for
breeding at a young age, but farmers of kitten
mills will continue to
breed their cats at ages of six to ten years or older.
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.
Dakota, about five years old, had lived his entire life in a puppy
mill, used as a «stud» to impregnate
female breeding dogs.
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.
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.
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.