Not exact matches
«As a voter and taxpayer, I firmly believe SB 331 is insufficient to adequately protect consumers or the
puppies sold in pet
stores whose parents live in breeding conditions where «profit above care» for the facility owner serves as their primary motive for existence.
In order to sell a
puppy, an Amish mill usually hires a
puppy broker — a man
whose sole duty is to get feedback from a pet
store, come once every several days, pick the
puppies that he finds to be marketable, then pays right on sight and leaves with freshly bought critters for the local pet
store.
Most
puppies sold in pet
stores were bred in
puppy mills, brokered through
puppy brokers,
whose sole purpose is to make money with little to no concern for animal care or welfare.
«A few of the many dogs who were sick in the
store include a Pomeranian
whose eyes were swollen shut with conjunctivitis, a French bulldog
puppy whose weight plummeted from 4.12 pounds to 3.08, an English bulldog
puppy with severe pneumonia and a Shiba Inu with bronchitis,» says the investigation report.
Like all commercial breeding dogs, she was a veritable breeding machine
whose worth was measured in only one way — her ability to produce
puppies for sale in pet
stores across the country.
One was a nine - year - old St. Bernard and the rest were 4 - to -6-year-old «lap dog» breeds among them, Bichons and Coton de Tulear —
whose puppies bring top dollar at pet
stores.
Totally at fault are pet
stores (
whose animals come from
puppy mills and commercial warehouses) selling to anyone with cash.
Nine out of 10 people who buy a
puppy from a
store or online are getting one
whose earliest days were spent in a
puppy mill.