Not exact matches
Battery farms consist of huge, windowless sheds housing thousands of hens who are crammed four or five at a time into
small wire cages stacked
on top of each other in rows.
To save money
on the cost of housing dogs, puppy mill kennels can consist of anything from
small cages made of wood and
wire mesh, to tractor - trailer cabs or simple tethers attached to trees.
Sore Hocks (Hutch Sores): Sore Hocks are infected and ulcerated wounds
on the underside of the feet that result most often from over exposure to
wire flooring
on cages or lack of movement from living in a
small enclosure.
The
smaller barn had
small elevated
wire cages with
wire on all sides.
As the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) notes
on its website, «under USDA standards, it is legal to keep dozens or even hundreds of breeding dogs in
small wire cages for their entire lives with only the basics of food, water and rudimentary shelter.»
It's legal to confine adult breeding dogs to
small,
wire - bottomed
cages, only 6 inches longer than the dog
on all sides, often stacked
on top of other
cages, for life.
Quick Look:
Cage Width: 18»
Cage Depth: 11»
Cage Height: 24» Base Material: Heavy duty plastic Bar Material: Galvanized metal Included Accessories: None Cubic Feet: 2.75 Suitable Housing For: 1 Syrian Hamster Average Price: $ 56 - $ 66 Depending
on Options Pros: Extremely sturdy,
small footprint, very secure, optional flip top lid provides lots of access points, deters some bar chewing hamsters Cons:
Wire levels and middle floor should be covered, can't attach a wheel to the wire directly, longer assembly
Wire levels and middle floor should be covered, can't attach a wheel to the
wire directly, longer assembly
wire directly, longer assembly time
After that, you can let him out of the
cage for supervised exercise every day in a
small, secured area so your pet can't get stuck behind furniture or chew
on electrical
wires.
Once your mice are tamed, you can let them out of the
cage for supervised exercise every day in a
small, secured area where your pets can't get stuck behind furniture or chew
on electrical
wires.
On top of that,
wire cage crates also usually come with an extra panel that enables owners to make the crate larger or
smaller as needed, so pet parents can buy one crate and then expand it as their pup grows.
In commerical breeding facilities they live in
small cages and stand
on wire their whole lives.
Be sure that a thick layer of substrate material is placed completely over the bottom of
wire cages for the
smallest of these pets — if the rodents walk regularly
on the
wire at the bottom of the
cage, it can hurt their feet and lead to infections or lesions.
At puppy mills, the dogs are kept in
small wire cages for years
on end solely to produce puppies for commercial sale in pet stores and over the Internet.
«Missourians are tremendous dog lovers and they want to see dogs protected from the abuses
on puppy mills, such as lifetime confinement in
small,
wire cages, stacked one
on top of another that do not even allow animals to stretch their legs or even touch solid ground.»
After that, you can let your gerbil out of the
cage for supervised exercise every day in a
small, secured area where your pet can't get stuck behind furniture or chew
on electrical
wires.
Our best friends should not be relegated to lives of neglect, starvation, untreated illness and injury, mutilated feet from constant living
on wire in quarters too
small for movement, living in the stench of ammonia and eating their own excrement, drinking filthy water, encrusted with fleas and mange, making futile attempts to protect their dying infants from extreme weather (both hot and cold) and having those who live torn from them unweaned, sometimes being abandoned to die slowly in
wire cages — all in order to provide a «cash crop» for irresponsible and unfeeling humans.
The pictures
on the signs Braslow had showed filthy dogs in deplorable conditions stuck inside
wire cages at the mills; it was a far cry from the
small pups playing inside the pens
on Thursday.
Examples of cruelty / neglect include beating or abusing an animal,
wiring or duct taping an animal's mouth closed, not providing an animal with adequate food, fresh water, warm shelter in the winter and cool / shaded shelter in the summer, keeping the animal in a very unclean area or
on a very short chain, not providing medical care for a sick animal, keeping an animal in a
cage that is too
small and not providing daily exercise for an animal.
Thus, Frisky was relegated to living outdoors in a
small wire cage behind the garage, with no bed to snuggle in, no toys to play with, no hay to munch
on, just a ceramic bowl full of bunny pellets, a water bottle, and full exposure to the elements, which were luckily pretty mild in Santa Monica.