Puppy
mill dogs are bred excessively, receive no vet care or socialization and haven't met a groomer.
In puppy
mills dogs are bred for quantity, not quality.
Not exact matches
ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Pet stores in New York state would
be prohibited from buying
dogs or cats from puppy
mills and other large commercial
breeding facilities under a legislative proposal announced Thursday.
She
is aiming to crackdown on commercial
dog breeding facilities known as puppy
mills and ensure that pet dealers
are selling healthy animals from safe sources.
Previously pet stores and so - called «puppy
mills,» where
dogs are bred for commercial sale,
were regulated by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
By working with several city councils in our region, San Diego Humane Society recently helped pass legislation banning local pet stores and other commercial businesses from selling
dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, and rabbits that
are obtained from puppy
mill farms, commercial catteries, and other large
breeding establishments.
Chows can
be good with children but
are not usually recommended, as they
were once considered one of the most dangerous
dog breeds, mostly due to bad breeders, puppy
mills and the isolation they experienced as puppies.
Because of how
dogs sold through pet stores and / or born in puppy
mills are bred, housed, handled, shipped, homed, and raised, there
are many possible reasons underlying the problems they show as adults.
Puppy
mills are large - scale
breeding facilities where hundreds of
dogs are kept in deplorable conditions for the sole purpose of churning out puppies.
Unlike puppy
mills, where profits
are placed over the well -
being of the animals, a responsible breeder
breeds only a few types of
dogs and
is knowledgeable about the
breed and its special requirements.
Answer by Reality Check written in crayon Unless he neglecting or mistreating his
dogs,
breeding crap
is not against the law... or puppy
mills and bybs would not exist...
Puppy
mills are large commercial
breeding facilities that can hold up to a thousand
dogs at a time — usually in highly stressful and unhygienic conditions.
The bills would also place an upper limit on the number of intact
breeding dogs that may
be housed in
breeding facilities, to prevent our state from becoming a haven for inhumane puppy
mills.
Breeding dogs in these
mills are typically kept in small wire cages that leave them with very little space to move or turn around.
It may sadden you to know that your new canine companion more than likely comes from a puppy
mill, which the ASPCA defines as «a large - scale commercial
dog breeding operation that places profit over the well -
being of its
dogs — who
are often severely neglected — and acts without regard to responsible
breeding practices».
Puppy
mills are large scale
breeding facilities where
dogs are treated like
breeding machines.
Not only
is this untrue, but the conditions of many
breeding facilities or puppy
mills (which supply pet stores that sell
dogs)
are nothing short of horrific.
There
are also ads on here for NextDayPets with over «300
Dog Breed Profiles» How do unsuspecting readers know this
is not a puppy
mill?
The ASPCA
is on the ground assisting in the removal, transport, sheltering and medical treatment of more than 130
dogs from a large, substandard
breeding facility — frequently referred to as a puppy
mill — in Needham, Alabama.
HSUS defines a puppy
mill as «a
dog breeding operation, which offers
dogs for monetary compensation or remuneration, in which the physical, psychological and / or behavioral needs of the
dogs are not
being fulfilled due to inadequate housing, shelter, staffing, nutrition, socialization, sanitation, exercise, veterinary care and / or inappropriate
breeding.»
Though Franki thought she'd adopted the puppy from a sweet couple who
bred dogs and sold them for extra money, she quickly found out that Vivica's health problems
were signs the cute pooch
was bred in a puppy
mill.
Those animals certainly have their issues, however it
's the
breeding dogs who finally get rescued after years in the
mills that motivate her stance.
Because many puppy
mills do not take the proper precautions when
breeding dogs, genetic diseases that could
be identified during professional medical screenings
are often missed and passed down to future generations.
Puppy
mills are dog breeding operations which provide substandard care at best.
Puppy
mills are dog breeding...
These poor
breeding practices
are what fuels puppy
mills that potentially generates substantial income for unscrupulous
dog breeders.
Puppy
mills create a surplus of popular
dogs and then either sell them for testing or euthanize them when they
are too old to adopt out unless they can serve as a
breeding dog in which case they will live in a cage with little human contact and never know the feel of grass under their feet.
Here
's what my research says, «A puppy
mill is a commercial facility destined for
breeding dogs that sets priority of making money over the well -
being of animals.»
Puppy «
millers» usually can not answer questions about the
dogs they sell, have no idea what proper
dog care
is about and do not have any med certificates (to them it
's cost) or health guarantees and have no or very little history of
breeding a particular
breed.
The overpopulation of pets
is an unfortunate consequence of large scale
breeding practices (puppy
mills, etc.), consumer demand for particular
dog and cat
breeds, and less than responsible pet ownership (backyard
breeding, refusal to spay / neuter, impulse acquisition, etc.).
A large
breeding facility or a puppy
mill will often have problems with parvo and other diseases because so many
dogs are kept in cages next to each other.
Sadly, the facial deformity that Lily had
been born with — a direct result of irresponsible
breeding practices at the puppy
mill — prevented this beautiful
dog from eating properly, and she lived for just fifteen months after finding her new home with Strader.
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.
Many of these Yorkie owners would
be astonished to learn that this groomed, pampered
breed began life as a working
dog as their Scottish masters moved south of the border into England's Yorkshire and Lancashire counties to work in the mines and
mills.
Puppy
millers are cross
breeding with no care for the health of their animals in their charge and when you cross certain
breeds that have both hereditary diseases which will only show up when the
dog is 3 or 4 and it will it
is pretty devastating.
Any
dog that
is bred for the single and sole purpose of profit
is a puppy
mill dog.
Aspca
is correct about 98 percent
are sick puppy
mills are dangerous and
breeding more
dogs or cats
is the reason why we have to put animals down its sad but true
In some of the largest puppy
mills, up to 1,000
breeding dogs can
be held.
Answer by Stephanie B puppy
mills are were they
breed a whole lot of
dogs and then treat them terribly alot of times pet shops get their
dogs there
With the current number of puppy producing
mills everywhere in the world, it
's an understatement to say that it
's DIFFICULT to find a genuine pet
dog belonging to a genuinely friendly
breed.
«These
dogs were kept in tiny cages and forced to
breed continuously for the profit of the
mill owners.»
WE»RE insulted that anyone would overlook the facts and hold hundreds of thousands of
breeding dogs captive in puppy
mills based on one unfortunate experience.
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.
A new campaign launched by media agency Rokkan and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
is hoping to educate society that most puppies found at pet stores, or purchased online,
are produced in so - called puppy
mills and that the reality of the conditions found at these
breeding operations
is far from
dog treats, sunshine and rainbows.
As I began surfing the Internet to learn more, I anticipated reading about strict new regulations that would dramatically limit the number of
dogs per «
breeding factory» along with regulations that would enhance the physical and emotional well
being of
dogs unfortunate enough to wind up in puppy
mills.
Unfortunately, the majority of pet store puppies originate from puppy
mills, or farms where the
dogs are bred in mass quantities with no regard for their health or well -
being.
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.
Dogs used for
breeding in puppy
mills are severely neglected, their health and well -
being is ignored for years and, when they've had so many litters that they can't keep going, the puppy
mills often kill them.
Remember, the
dogs participating in Westminster
are not the product of puppy
mills but
are bred by responsible breeders that love these animals.
Puppy
mills are commercial
breeding facilities that raise
dogs in factory - farm - like conditions, putting profit above the welfare of the animals.