This Mother's Day, let's speak out about the plight of mothers of a different species: mother dogs who are forced, over and over again, to
produce puppies for profit in puppy mills.
Victory at Westminster can lead unscrupulous breeders to
produce puppies for profit and can result in purchases that end in disaster.
Brandy is safe, but hundreds of thousands of dogs like her are still confined in small cages in puppy mills — mass breeding operations that house dogs in terrible conditions, solely to
produce puppies for profit.
These dogs were not considered sentient beings who need and deserve care, just machines
producing puppies for profit,» said ARC President Scotlund Haisley.
Not exact matches
Sirs: I have no defense
for those dishonest breeders who do mass -
produce puppies for quick
profit, except that dishonesty will be found in all walks of life.
Irresponsible = no health, temperament, or physical soundness testing; no criteria in selecting breeding pairs;
puppies raised away from (almost constant) human contact;
puppies sold to brokers, stores or other «middlemen»;
puppies sold to anyone that has the right amount of money; no follow - up on
puppies sold; does not take back ANY animal they have EVER
produced; does not know the history of their breed; makes new «designer» breeds
for profit; only breeds F1 crosses of new «designer» breeds.
If sick
puppies are accepted, then sick
puppies will continue to be offered, in lieu of seeking to prevent sickness and disease, and more dogs will suffer to
produce a
profit for those who care not
for the welfare of animals at all.
If you truelly love dogs or a breed you will educate yourself about the subject and lay to rest any idea of breeding and
producing more
puppies for your own whims, convienience or
profit.
Since most people begin their search
for a new pet online, It can be difficult to tell the difference between a legitimate rescue organization who happens to have
puppies available
for adoption and a backyard breeder whose
profit from the sale will encourage them to
produce more
puppies.
Puppy mills that mass
produce dogs do so
for profit and not
for betterment of the breed.
Dogs from
puppy mills are mass
produced solely
for profit and are sold in pet stores, online and directly to consumers with little to no regard
for the dog's health, genetic history or welfare.
The
puppy mill industry
produces dogs
for profit while thousands of unwanted animals of all ages and breeds are euthanized in shelters every day.
Puppy mills, where
puppies are mass -
produced for profit without any regard
for the health or emotional well - being of the parents, have been getting more attention with each passing year.
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.
They are not motivated by financial
profit, and they acknowledge responsibility
for each and every
puppy they
produce, standing behind every dog they have bred.
When dogs reach the age where they're no longer able to
produce puppies, Strader said, mill owners will often kill them since they're not a source of
profit for their businesses.
Most of these
puppies are sold to these stores through wholesalers who purchase their «stock» from people who mass -
produce many different breeds of
puppies for profit.
If that cost (pro-rated
for this individual
puppy) represents $ 30 of the cost to
produce the
puppy, the
puppy mill will have more
profit than if the pro-rated cost to acquire the parents was $ 35.
Unethical breeders and
puppy mills continue to mass
produce animals
for profit without regard
for the quality of pups
produced or the quality of the lives of their breeding dogs.