Sentences with phrase «of most puppy mill»

The single most distinguishing characteristic of most puppy mill operators is their desire to produce puppies at minimum costs with minimum effort, regardless of what is best for the animals.

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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.

The Pet Quality Assurance Act, or the «puppy mill bill,» House Bill 1332, and House Bill 1045, a bill which would have allowed low - population counties to operate a shelter and pass animal control ordinances, would have combined to help the most voiceless of all companion animals in our state; dogs in unlicensed dog dealing facilities and unwanted animals facing abandonment due to the absence of shelters.

We have all called for enforcement of the existing anti-cruelty and neglect laws, most of us support regulations to address puppy mills and fraudulent rescue organizations and we all wonder out loud why animal abandonment is so prevalent.

But despite the appearance of being humane, most pet stores hide the fact that their dogs come from puppy mills, an industry that is anything but adorable.

This year, HSUS visited a number of Petland stores in Georgia and found they were buying from some of the most notorious puppy mills in the nation, adds Summers.

Breeders know better than most the horrors of puppy mills and are usually willing to do whatever they can to stop it.

On Friday, September 26, an investigation by Humane Society International / Canada, the Montreal SPCA and local law enforcement culminated in a raid on what our director of emergency services called «the most horrific conditions of any puppy mill our team has ever encountered.»

She is an active volunteer of the National Disaster Animal Response Team (NDART) and was deployed to New Orleans following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, to San Diego following the wildfires in 2007, and most recently to a Livingston County puppy mill bust in May 2014.

But be aware most of those puppies are coming from puppy mills.

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

The AKC would go broke if it lost any degree of puppy mill registrations, and they support the most heinous abuse imaginable to keep that money flow coming in to pay for those expensive dogs shows.

I read the most gut - wrenching article about puppy mills in The Rolling Stone last month titled, «The Dog Factory: Inside the Sickening World of Puppy Mills.&rpuppy mills in The Rolling Stone last month titled, «The Dog Factory: Inside the Sickening World of Puppy Mills.&rPuppy Mills.»

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.

While the puppy mill industry has received and justifiably so much negative attention most people who breed any purebred dog or other animal do so out of love and the desire and pride of sharing this love with others.

Of the sweet pup featured in the photo, the rescue explained that dogs from puppy mills are most often tattooed on the ear, but sometimes on the belly or thigh area, as well.

Dog auctions are a side of puppy mills most people do not know even exist.

Pam has shared Lil Olive's life — and passing — with hundreds of thousands of people across the world through Lil Olive's Facebook page with the intention of raising awareness about what the breeding industry did, and does, not only to Lil Olive, but to all the many thousands of other dogs, most of whom will never get out of the puppy mills alive.

Especially if the dog in question had suffered most of their years on earth in the crazy world of human cruelty that is the puppy mill industry.

That means that 67 Chicago businesses — 12 of them pet stores — are participating in the puppy mill trade — and you may not even know it: «Again and again, salespeople denied that their puppies came from puppy mills, and most did not comply with a law passed in 2010 by the State requiring pet shops to post in a conspicuous place in writing on or near the cage of any dog or cat available for sale the information required by subsection (a) of this section.

«We all need to reach out to those who are hurting, but offering an individual a 9 - week old puppy (that was most likely obtained from a puppy mill), falls short of obtaining hero status,» says Cari Meyers, founder of The Puppy Mill Propuppy (that was most likely obtained from a puppy mill), falls short of obtaining hero status,» says Cari Meyers, founder of The Puppy Mill Propuppy mill), falls short of obtaining hero status,» says Cari Meyers, founder of The Puppy Mill ProPuppy Mill Project.

Nearly all pet stores that sell dogs get them from puppy mills, and most of these mills are completely legal.

Authorities call this case a hoarding situation though it had the appearance of a puppy mill — most of the dogs were small purebreds.

Websites: Just like pet stores, most websites that sell dogs are selling mill - bred pets, and most of these sites market the puppies as well - bred and lovingly raised.

The suffering these animals face seems even more unjust, because most of the identities of their breeders have been kept secret by the USDA — the very agency charged with protecting dogs in puppy mills and keeping bad breeders in line.

Click here to learn about the life of a dog in a puppy mill And this additional announcement is just from god upon the most of them.

We know they provide more than health benefits, they save the lost, the love the most tragic, and they give unconditional affection, even through the horror of a situation like a puppy mill.

A representative from the Humane Society of the United States calls bill S63 «the most comprehensive puppy mill sales bill to ever be introduced».

We wanted to put an end to the whole sordid puppy mill business, and we soon realized that our most receptive audience and effective point of pressure would be at the point of sale — those well - meaning consumers who drive the demand for mill - bred pets by purchasing them in pet stores.

Most of the animals are there because they've been abandoned by previous owners or are the victims of puppy mills.

Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation at The Humane Society of the United States, issued the following statement: «Well - intentioned dog lovers are often duped into buying puppy mill dogs that were raised in the most horrific conditions.

It's the story of Lil Olive, a puppy mill survivor, and how, after more than 12 years as a breeding momma in most horrible of conditions, she changed the lives of so many.

Brokers are a key part of the puppy mill supply chain as most pet stores obtain their puppies from brokers, and not directly from the breeders.

Most people are surprised to learn that even some of the worst puppy mills are in compliance with state and federal law.

This program rescues the most vulnerable, at - risk population of dogs — elderly strays, puppy mill victims, and older dogs slated for euthanasia at animal control facilities.

Senate Agricultural Committee for unanimously passing legislation to prohibit some of the most painful and unsafe procedures commonly performed on dogs at large - scale puppy mills.

I wanted to take a second and share with you one of the most important ways to combat puppy mills here in the United States and it is pretty simple....

Some of the most popular pet stores in Arizona connecting them to some large scale puppy mills across the Midwest.

The organization took in several more puppy mill rescues with the most recent rescue of another 29 dogs from Ohio.

«Doogie's» time with us was good while it lasted, even tho his health problems, typical of a puppy mill, plagued him most of his life.

Because most puppy mill operations are seedy, their owner often try to wow you with brick - a-rack shelves of trophies and long A.K.A. pedigrees on their dogs.

In the Midwest, where the commercial breeding facilities are most abundant, we focus our energy on rescuing dogs and puppies from living lives of inhumanity inside puppy mills.

Maybe we should also teach our kids that it is most likely that the puppy in the window is a puppy that is lucky to be out of puppy mill hell.

«One of the most common things we find in puppy mills where we do rescues are dogs with missing eyes due to the jagged metal on wire cages,» said Tim Rickey, senior director of field investigations for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Most animals raised in puppy mills are housed in shockingly poor conditions with improper medical care, and the parents of the puppies are kept in cages to be bred over and over for years, without human companionship and with little hope of ever joining a family.

Puppy mills sell most of their puppies in pet stores and the classified section of local newspapers.

Most of the time, backyard breeders aren't the same level of nightmare that puppy mills are, but pride that they think they've got the best of the breed ever and ignorance of genetic science still isn't an excuse.

Springsteen — who is an ASPCA «equine welfare ambassador,» in the Jan. 16 letter said the legislation «will help consumers make informed decisions about the dogs they buy and avoid the heartbreak of buying a sick dog, and also eliminate some of the most inhumane puppy mills from our state's pet shop supply chain.»

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.»

And, I have been boots on the ground at some of the largest and most deplorable puppy mills in the nation.