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The paper reviews the findings of multiple studies involving dogs born in high - volume commercial breeding establishments — commonly known as puppy mills — and sold to the consumer directly via the Internet, or indirectly through retail pet stores.

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.

When people purchase puppies from pet stores or through the Internet they are contributing to the cruel puppy mill industry.

The puppies who are deemed attractive enough to be successfully marketed by their breeders typically end up being advertised and sold online, through print advertisements, at certain flea markets, and in pet stores, thus generating a profit for the puppy mill industry and allowing it to continue.

The AKC makes most of its money from puppy mill registrations, mostly through puppies that go through the pet stores.

Many dogs sold in pet stores or through online retailers come from puppy mills.

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

Many mill dogs just don't enjoy being picked up, and so I try to separate out handling and picking up; in other words, I teach them first that «hands are good» through gentle petting, massage and Tellington Touch, without picking up the dog.

It is estimated that over 90 percent of pets sold in pet stores and through online sales come from commercial, mass breeding operations known as mills, including puppy, kitten, bird and rabbit mills.

When you buy a puppy online or through a pet store, you're more than likely supporting a puppy mill.

Mr. Peterson said the key differences between the amendment and the new Senate Bill 331 are added enforcement by the Department of Agriculture and tracking of puppies as they go through the process in an attempt to address concerns some pet brokers were selling dogs to stores that had actually been obtained from puppy mills.

Most puppies sold in pet stores were bred in puppy mills, brokered through puppy brokers, whose sole purpose is to make money with little to no concern for animal care or welfare.

Through Best Friends» puppy mill initiatives, we are working to convince pet stores to offer pets for adoption instead of selling mill - bred pets, educate consumers about puppy mills, and create and lobby for humane legislation.

Our mission is to raise awareness and educate the public about puppy mills and their connection to puppies sold in pet stores, on the Internet, and through other outlets.

His efforts led to the successful passage of legislation in forty - two states, through direct lobbying activity as well as grassroots lobbying efforts, including the passage of stricter animal abuse laws for horse racing, dog racing, dog fighting, cockfighting, puppy mills, and pet stores.

Some of the worst puppy mills sell puppies through pet stores and online, relying on impulse purchases by people who haven't seen for themselves where the puppy was born and raised.»

Puppy mills: Best Friends is working hard to combat puppy mills, one of the major contributors to animal homelessness, through public awareness campaigns, legislative work, and encouragement of adopting rather than purchasing pets.

The goal of the ordinance is not to target responsible breeders, just commercial breeding operations, i.e. puppy mills, who distribute through pet stores and commercial businesses, said Weitzman.

Our mission is to raise awareness and educate the public about puppy mills and their connection to puppies sold in pet stores, over the internet, and through other outlets.

If you buy a dog over the Internet, at a pet store or through a newspaper ad, your new pooch may very well be from a puppy mill — an abusive mass - production facility that churns out puppies under inhumane conditions.

Through efforts like Animal Care EXPO, Animal Sheltering magazine and The Shelter Pet Project, The HSUS works ceaselessly to help shelters reduce the need for euthanasia, all while striving to identify and address the root causes of pet homelessness through our puppy mill work, Pets for Life and other initiThrough efforts like Animal Care EXPO, Animal Sheltering magazine and The Shelter Pet Project, The HSUS works ceaselessly to help shelters reduce the need for euthanasia, all while striving to identify and address the root causes of pet homelessness through our puppy mill work, Pets for Life and other initithrough our puppy mill work, Pets for Life and other initiatives.

Dogs and puppies produced in puppy mills go through horrible things to get to that pet store.

Puppy mill puppies, often as young as eight weeks of age, are sold to pet shops or directly to the public over the Internet, through newspaper ads and at swap meets and flea markets.

Yorkies available for adoption through rescues are pets that have been surrendered by owners, found homeless or rescued from puppy mills.

Some puppy mill puppies are sold to pet shops — usually through a broker, or middleman — and marketed as young as eight weeks of age.

Through CAPS, she provided investigative evidence and reliable information about the puppy mills that supply Illinois» pet shops to community leaders, lawmakers, and the public.

To inform the community that rescuing a pet is an option by helping them find their specific pet of choice through networking with other rescues and by educating them on the detrimental effects that puppy mills and backyard breeders have on the pet population.

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.

While it can happen to any pet, its especially true of any pet that has been rescued, sheltered or puppy mill pet who may have been through so much in their lives and may just need a little more understanding and love.

2) Educates the public about puppy mills through tabling events, leafleting, social networking, workshops, pet store demonstrations and petitions.

We spend most of our time educating the public about the pet store link to puppy mills through our weekly pet store demonstrations.

Sage deserved this after all she had been through at a puppy mill and is a beautiful pet!

Puppy mills are often the source of dogs sold through pet shops.

These puppy mills continue to stay in business through deceptive tactics — their customers are unsuspecting consumers who shop in pet stores, over the Internet or through classified ads.

And puppy mills do not sell their pups only through pet stores.

Puppy mills are breeding facilities that put maximizing profit ahead of animal welfare and mass - produce puppies for sale on the Internet, through ads, by brokers or at pet shops.

And organizations throughout the U.S. are working to spread the word about puppy mills to consumers through peaceful protests, advertising campaigns and undercover investigations that expose the truth behind pet stores and online puppy sales.

There are still people out there who haven't heard of puppy mills, or who don't understand the connection between puppy mills and puppies purchased online or through pet stores.

There's an important tool to help in the fight against puppy mill puppies sold through pet stores: They're more likely to be aggressive with their owners, strangers and other dogs.

The Anti-Cruelty Society is strongly opposed to the sale of companion animals through pet stores and similar outlets (i.e. puppy mills, internet, and indiscriminate breeders) and encourages pet stores to offer homeless animals for adoption.

Puppy mill dogs are not only sold in pet stores, but also through the internet, at flea markets or advertised in local newspapers.

Purchasing kittens through kitten mill factories or pet stores only supports and encourages these businesses to continue producing more «animal commodities.»

Bailing Out Benji works hard to educate people about puppy mills through advocacy initiatives, and by holding weekend protests outside a local pet store that buys its puppies from local puppy mills.

Once notorious puppy mill operator who was shut down in 2011 found selling puppy through pet store in 2017, possibly violating prior agreement.

Even still, there are still people out there who haven't heard of puppy mills, or who don't understand the connection between puppy mills and puppies purchased online or through pet stores.

They may sort through hundreds of shipping manifests to figure out which puppy mills are supplying particular pet stores or which exotic animal breeders are selling to roadside zoos and captive hunt operations.

«Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions will continue working with local, state and national animal advocacy groups to actively address - through investigations, education, media relations and legislative involvement - Ohio dog auctions and their relationship to puppy mills and pet homelessness.»

There are not enough homes for them all, and until puppy mills are outlawed and all pet owners practice responsible ownership through spay and neuter, the surplus will continue.

You may think you're getting all of these benefits when you buy a pet through a retail store, but most of those animals come from puppy mills — mass breeding facilities with notoriously poor conditions for parent animals and their litters.

Supply drives demand, but that's the point of putting the squeeze on puppy mills through the smart marketing of shelter pets and ordinances that ban the sale of mill - bred animals in pet stores — to make animals supplied by puppy mills more expensive and less accessible.