Puppy Mills How cruel can the pet stores be?
One of the most popular places for one to get a new puppy is at the local pet store. Regardless as to whether it is a national chain or even the garden variety mom and pop shop, it is important to research where exactly these puppies come from before you choose to purchase one. While the average person can in no way resist the cute and sad faces on the puppies at the pet store and want nothing more than to crate them up and take them home, where the puppy comes from can cause your heart to break.
Have you ever heard of puppy mills?
Do you know where most of these puppies come from that you see being sold in pet stores? There are certain breeding centers that cater to high-volume puppy production which sells them to pet stores, which then is sold to you. They are called “puppy mills” and are probably the most disgusting form of dog breeding practices that I have seen.
Disclaimer: Let me be clear on one thing: Not every pet store gets their puppies from puppy mills, but enough research has been done to find that a large majority of stores in the United States do in fact use puppy mills as their resource for pets to sell to the public.
What exactly are puppy mills?
To put it in simple terms, a puppy mill is a farm that is found most often in the Midwestern part of the United States. These farms breed animals for profits, mostly dogs. That may not sound that harsh but imagine these puppies being bred in high volumes and mistreated in the same way that cattle or chickens are.
When you walk into a pet store, you see a few cages staked on top of each other and filled with cute puppies. This concept comes from the puppy mills but is not just two or three cages stacked on top of each other and rows that are maybe 5 cages long, but rather 5 cages by the length of barns stacked on top of each other and in most cases ignored other than feeding times.
What is so bad about buying a puppy that originated from a puppy mill?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking home one of these puppies, and it is definitely a positive choice to make. On the other hand, many of these dogs have what is called “early stress syndrome” and may grow up to be nervous and frightened dogs which are very hard to instill confidence with training. Of course there are exceptions to the rule with these puppies, however, before you spend your hard-earned cash be sure to know all there is to know about where your puppy came from when considering purchasing from a pet store.
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