Depending on the disease, there can also be serious ethical issues with doing matings that might
produce sick puppies.
Not exact matches
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.
Such breeding facilities treat
puppies as cash crops instead of pets, employing horrendous standards of care for the dogs and
producing sick animals prone to illness, injury, genetic and behavioral problems.
They will breed non-stop and be left to die or be killed when they are too old or too
sick & tired to
produce puppies.
When she became too
sick to profitably
produce puppies, she was dumped in an animal shelter by the
puppy mill owner.
Often
puppy mill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools and they produce puppies prone to congenital and hereditary defects Puppy mills are not defined by the number of ani
puppy mill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove
sick dogs from their breeding pools and they
produce puppies prone to congenital and hereditary defects
Puppy mills are not defined by the number of ani
Puppy mills are not defined by the number of animals.
Backyard breeders are not particularly knowledgeable about their breed, dogs in general, genetics or the breeding proceedure, and the
puppies they
produce are low quality, possibly
sick or tempermentally unsound.
The reason these
puppies so often end up sickly and mentally disturbed is that no screening of breeding stock is done -
sick, unsound, unstable dogs are bred to
produce more ailments in the next generation; also,
puppies born in mills and then transferred over to petshops do not receive the proper early socialization which may result in behavioral problems later in life.