A pet
store puppy often costs as much as a well bred one and a «bargain» puppy from the newspaper is frequently NO bargain when you take into account the possible costs involved with serious medical or temperament problems.
Not exact matches
Many pet
store puppies and kittens
often come from these sorts of horrendous situations, and unsuspecting consumers purchase their companions not knowing where they came from or even what medical conditions they might already possess due to their prior lack of care.
Don't support
puppy mills and pet
stores this Holiday Season — Beware of on line buying of animals,
often these
puppies are from
puppy mills or «factory style» breeding facilities.
Not realizing the potential difficulties of raising a well - behaved, healthy
puppy, a quick purchase is made,
often made even easier by pet
stores offering a monthly payment plan on that
puppy.
Also, never purchase a
puppy from a pet
store, they are
often ill and your money would be going to support the
puppy mills they get their animals from.
Previous HSUS investigations inChicago, New York, Texas, and Virginia have revealed similar shortcomings: pet
stores all too
often buy and sell
puppies who are sourced from inhumane
puppy mills that treat them like products, not living, breathing animals.
Some told our investigators that their
stores»
puppies came from «families» or from breeders the
store owners know well and visit
often.
For
puppies, breeding centers and pet
stores are
often the root.
Pet Shop
Puppies: Buying a
Puppy From a Pet
Store Miniature Pinschers are
often found in pet shops.
Investigations have consistently shown that
puppies sold in pet
stores often come from
puppy mills.
But if Joe Public wants a
puppy for the family and doesn't know about the shelter, or has heard it's a hell hole (as many are), or can't get there during work hours (the only time they're open,
often), or gets treated rudely by people who work there, why is he NOT going to just go to a pet
store and pick up a pricey pup?
As long as there is a market for pet
store puppies, other dogs will be condemned to death by mass breeding only so that a few people can make some money,
often with no thought of the welfare of their «product.»
It is a known fact that pets sold in pet
stores often come from unethical breeders or inhumane
puppy mills.
While their
puppies are
often sold to pet
stores or online, mother dogs like Brandy are left to suffer for years on end.
Breed clubs strongly discourage consumers from purchasing
puppies from pet
stores and their ethical guidelines
often do not allow for breeders to sell to pet
stores.
The harsh reality is that they
often can not find homes for their cute and adorable kittens or
puppies and try to relinquish them to already overcrowded shelters or rescues and when that fails, they are abandoned outside pet
stores, vet clinics or in a dumpster.
Good - intentioned people who buy from pet
stores,
puppy mill websites, or even local backyard breeders (people who breed as a hobby or an «oops» but do not actually know their breed inside and out, nor do they test for health and temperament before breeding)
often face serious veterinary bills associated with genetic issues that arise as these
puppies grow.
Unfortunately these impulse buys supporting
puppy mills
often end in sad results, says Summers: «We receive heartbreaking calls after the winter holidays about sick
puppies purchased from pet
stores.
It will help stop traffic from large brokers of
puppy mills to supply
stores that too
often have proved to be unacceptable points of sale for
puppies.
Pet
stores often misrepresent the true origins of their
puppies and mislead consumers into believing that they are purchasing a responsibly and humanely - bred
puppy.
Pet Shop
Puppies: Buying a
Puppy From a Pet
Store Labrador Retrievers are
often found in pet shops.
Sadly, consumers who purchase
puppies from pet
stores or online without seeing a breeder's home firsthand are
often unknowingly supporting this cruel industry.
Pet
stores will
often try to trick potential
puppy buyers by using a play on words.
These
puppies are then
often sold in pet
stores and online to unsuspecting buyers who would never knowingly support the
puppy mill industry.
Pet
stores often mislead consumers about the origin of their
puppies; we believe that the consumer deserves to know the truth.
Pet
store puppies can cost upwards of $ 1,000, but bad living conditions at
puppy mills and too - early separation from their mothers
often make
puppies sick (see # 4).
These
puppies are sold to pet
stores, brokers, and
often times on the Internet (through sites such as Craiglist) or even through classifieds in the paper or your work classifieds.
Being full of desirable animals makes shelters competitive with pet
stores that get their inventory from
puppy mills, where dogs are
often mistreated, overbred and forced to spend their lives in cages without adequate access to food, water or veterinary care.
Pet Shop
Puppies: Buying a
Puppy From a Pet
Store German Wirehaired Pointers are not seen very
often in pet shops, but it's possible.
While pet
stores and commercial breeders
often use the newspaper to advertise, most of the ads for
puppies and kittens found in the classifieds are placed by private people.
Pets sold in retail pet
stores often come from
puppy mills where their parents endure lives of confinement and misery.
Your purchase of a mill
puppy (
often billed as «farm -» or «family - raised» or purchased in pet
stores) continues the cycle of cruelty by putting more money in the pockets of those involved, allowing the profit to be reinvested into the business so that the breeding continues.
Often the
puppy is either purchased online, through a dealer based in the U.S., or at a «mom and pop» pet
store, typically on the coast.
On top of that,
puppies often arrive in pet
stores and their new homes with diseases or infirmities.
They may seem to know what they're doing, but behind the friendly façade of pet
stores often lies the ugly reality of these
puppy mills.
Barrack told me, «
Often times pet
stores obtain dogs from
puppy mills.
It is also a reminder that buying animals from pet
stores is never a good idea (as opposed to adopting), since, unfortunately, dogs sold in
stores are more
often than not victims of breeding in
puppy mills and the many health problems connected with that background.
Read this carefully, as they are designed to protect the
store, not you,
often requiring you to actually return your sick
puppy to get a refund.
Puppy mill
puppies are born and raised in deplorable conditions —
often to unhealthy parents — without proper socialization before they are sold to pet
stores.
Pet
stores who generally purchase their
puppies from
puppy mills, most
often the Amish or the millers in the Midwestern states, such as Missouri and Arkansas.
The stress and activity of a pet
store can exasperate the animal giving the illness a hold (or spreading to other
puppies — that are sold without it being realized that they're sick) and that can be deadly left untreated (as was
often the case.)
Pet
stores often carry birds and small mammals, including exotics like hedgehogs — but you should never purchase these animals from a pet
store, as they
often come from mass breeding facilities similar to
puppy and kitten mills.
Our Los Angeles, Inland Empire area
store often carries - Golden Retrievers, Boxers, Pomeranians, Yorkies, Bulldogs, Boston Terrier, Cavachon, Cavapoo, Chorkie, Doberman Pinscher, Lhasa Apso, Mini Woodle, Maltese, Pomsky, Poodle, Shih Tzu and many other
puppies for sale here in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Corona Area.
Also, steer clear of pet
stores as their
puppies often come from
puppy mills with little regard for bloodlines, health concerns or where the animal ends up.
Pet Shop
Puppies: Buying a
Puppy From a Pet
Store Dalmatians are
often found in pet shops.
The
store management will
often use the
puppy's health certificate as proof that the animal was healthy when he or she left the
store, leaving the buyer helpless if the
puppy becomes sick just a few hours or days after purchase.
They can be full of exclusions and loopholes, and
often require you to return a sick
puppy to the
store in order to get a refund.
The
store manager's definition of «knowing» a breeder
often just means they have been receiving shipments of
puppies from the same place repeatedly.
These efforts have helped countless people understand the
puppy mill - pet
store connection,
often resulting in them choosing a more ethical method of getting their next family pet.
As Mother's Day approaches, The Humane Society of the United States asks supporters from around the globe to remember the mother dogs suffering in
puppy mills, spending their lives in cramped wire cages,
often with barely enough food and water to stay alive as they churn out
puppies for sale at pet
stores and online.