Year after year people buy puppies from big breeders. Have you ever wondered where that puppy grew up? What kind of conditions the puppy lived in? Most puppies that someone would buy from a pet store are raised in puppy mills. Puppy mills are well-known for their “inhumane conditions” and the endless breeding of “unhealthy and genetically defective” dogs only for income. People should adopt rather than buy from a pet store or breeder. By adopting from a shelter, one could give a dog a second chance at a happy life. Hundreds of thousands of puppies are raised each year in commercial kennels (Puppymills Breed Misery). Puppy mills keep breed stock in horrible conditions for their short lives and produce unhealthy puppies with many issues. Not only are they committing “inhumane care,” but puppy mills are responsible for customer fraud. Many puppy mills are small and contain about twenty breeding dogs in basements, garages, or sheds “in cages stacked to the roof.” The dogs will stay in those cages without “exercise or sunlight.” Also, the dogs have two “litters” a year till about the age five. Other puppy mills contain hundreds of breeding dogs. The operators keep the puppies in “relative darkness” so the puppies seldom cry or draw attention. The dogs in puppy mills rarely receive medical attention. The females are dissipated because of the never-ending period of “producing and nursing litters.” Most dogs have “chronic ailments, rotten teeth, and ear, eye, and skin infections.” Many of the puppies purchased from puppy mills are un-healthy and not well-adjusted. The puppies have a high prevalence of hereditary syndromes and illnesses, and difficulties that occurs following the “purchase.” After the females cannot produce anymore liters... ... middle of paper ... ...ks Cited Black, Lisa, and Jeff Long. "Animal Activists Target Big Breeders and Puppy Mills." Chicago Tribune 7 March 2010, n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. "Buying vs. Adopting." American Humane Society. N.p.. Web. 22 Oct 2013. Kehret, Peg. Shelter Dogs. Albert Whitman & Company, 1999. Print. Pacelle, Wayne. "Wayne's Blog: USDA Announces Rule to Crack Down on Online Puppy Mills." Humane Society Association. N.p., 10 Sept 2013. Web. 22 Oct 2013. Peters, Sharon. "Puppy Mills Face Greater Scrutiny." USA Today 31 Oct 2007, n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. Pratt, Gregory. "PAWS Volunteers Rescue Puppy Mill Dogs." Chicago Tribune 6 Aug 2013, n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. "Puppy Mills Face Greater Scrutiny." Prisoners of Greed. N.p.. Web. 22 Oct 2013. Sternberg, Sue. Successful Dog Adoption. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2003. Print. Willis, Cathy. Personal Interview. 5 Nov 2013.
A puppy mill is a place where people force dogs to reproduce in order to sell the pups to stores, people or anyone else who is willing to buy them so they can make money. Thousands of dogs are made each year by these mills, and because they make more dogs then they can sell an overpopulation of dogs begins to occur. A serious of conflict occurs from puppy mills. Since animals from stores are from breeding mills that means the mills are being supported to stay in business from anyone who buys a puppy from stores. Also since more people are buying from stores, less people are buying animals from a shelter therefore those animals have a higher chance of dying. Puppy mills also do not take care of the dogs whom are in their care. Some of the animals are abused very badly by these places. Female dogs are forced to reproduce every chance they can, and when they get to the point where they are physically no longer able to do so they get killed. There food is contaminated with algae or other bacteria that grows. (DoSomething.org) Also the living conditions they have the
With the holidays approaching, many young couples look into getting their better half a puppy for Christmas. But what they do not know is that puppy could have been bred in one of the most inhumane ways. Puppy mills are all over the United States, and the government has turned their cheeks to the horrors behind those barn doors.
There are so many things that the breeders do to the puppies in puppy mills in very inhumane ways. To understand how puppy mills operate one must know the facts about animal abuse, why they operate, and how to prevent the use of puppy mills. Where are the bigger production centers in the United States? How are the dogs treated? What about the lasting effects on the animals' lives? This study, written in the format of the Modern Language Association (MLA), examines puppy mills and their inhumane treatment of animals.
Thousands of animals are put to sleep each year due to not having any available homes for them to be adopted. According to Jennifer Sexton and Tom Warhol in Domestic Animal Overpopulation, “The average female cat can produce two litters of six kittens per year, a female dog can produce one litter of six or more puppies per year, making pet overpopulation a significant problem.” Animal overpopulation is costing money and you can help the pets with spay and neutering programs. A new solution is mandatory contracts for breeders and spay and neuter programs. This paper will talk about spay and neuter programs, contracts for breeders, and why some people don’t think animal overpopulation is a problem. Thankfully there are solutions to this issue of animal overpopulation.
Making the right to choice to adopt befits you, your pet, and all the other stray animals that do not yet have homes. By, adopting through the human center you can save money while still obtaining a new pet. Not only will you be helping the lives of other stray animals but you would not be contributing to the inhuman puppy mill industry. The overpopulation of stray animals can be combated if you make the right choice and adopt from the humane
Puppy mills are bad for dogs. They hurt them by using wire cages, over breeding them, and neglecting them. Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization... In a puppy mill, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs. (“What is a Puppy Mill?”) Another website, peta.org, said this, “Perhaps most heartbreaking of all were the old mother dogs who had gone mad from confinement and loneliness. Our investigator watched these dogs circle frantically in their small cages and pace ceaselessly back and forth, which was their only way of coping with their despair.” This is why Puppy mills are bad for dogs. They hurt dogs physically and mentally.
Did you know that within one puppy mill, 150 puppies go through a very short term of harm each week? As a dog owner, I’m asking to fellow dog owners, where did you buy your dog from? In 2004, an article in “The Province” had written, “It’s a fact that reputable breeders will not allow their puppies to be sold in pet stores.” Which leaves the result that pet stores may have hurt puppy mill dogs. Puppy mills is an overcrowded way of making money for breeders. Puppy mills carry way too many dogs at once in order to make money. Dogs are hurt in too many ways for puppy mills to be legal. Puppy mills should be abolished because because animals are hungry and starved, kept in cages their whole stay, and have no experience with social interaction to other dogs or humans when they’re released.
The Puppy Mill Project is a none-profit organization whose goal is to raise awareness and educate the public about puppy mills and their connection to puppies sold in pet stores, on the Internet, and through other outlets. They educate, facilitate rescue, and advocate for change. Their main goal is to end puppy mills. Puppy mill operators keep breeding in excess of over 2 million puppies per year, this is causing the overpopulation of dogs and an estimated 1.2 million former puppy mill dogs are euthanized in shelters. These dogs were either sick or aggressive which forced the owners that bought them to give the dog up to a shelter or abandon them (thepuppymillproject). Pet overpopulation is a problem not only for animals but for humans as well because of the increased rabies exposure risk but also because it puts a strain on animal control
If we further implement the sterilization of dogs—pet, shelter, and stray—the overpopulation of the species will begin to noticeably drop, and as generations pass and more and more unfixed dogs die, the population will no longer be capable of rising quick enough to counteract the solution. Obviously, not all dog owners will fix their dogs. But this can be a good thing because as long as there are at least some unsterilized dogs, there will always be a population. If the majority of them are sterilized then this population will no longer be able to grow out of hand as it is
Everyone loves puppies. Adjectives like cute, cuddly, adorable, and innocent are used to describe them. Sadly, the way they come into this world can be described as nothing short of ugly, premeditated and negligent. There are those who treat “man’s best friend” as though they were man’s worst enemy. Those people are in the business of manufacturing puppies by the millions, for millions. These particular manufacturing facilities they own and run are called “puppy mills”, where dogs and puppies are forced to live in the most inhumane, despicable conditions, far greater than prisoners of war or the worst criminals in our nation’s prisons have endured, causing inevitable high mortality rates. Of the six million puppies bred in puppy mills in the US annually, four to five million of them don’t survive. Everyday, eleven thousand cute, cuddly, adorable, and innocent puppies die due to these ugly, premeditated and negligent breeding procedures. Puppy mills should be shut down and made illegal until such time that strict laws are put into place to control and enforce humane breeding and living conditions, protecting the welfare of these dogs, and drastically lessening their mortality rate and the way puppy mill owners make their living.
In Alastair Norcross’ paper, “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases” he describes a situation in which a man, Fred, has lost his ability to enjoy the gustatory pleasure of chocolate due to a car accident. However, it is known that puppies under duress produce cocoamone, the hormone Fred needs in order to enjoy chocolate again. Since no one is in the cocoamone business, Fred sets up twenty six puppy cages, and mutilates them resulting in cocoamone production in the puppy’s brains. Each week he slaughters a dog and consumes the cocoamone. When he is caught, he explains to the judge and jury that his actions are no different from factory farming because he is torturing and killing puppies for gustatory pleasure similar to how factory farms torture and kill cows, chickens, etc. for other people’s gustatory pleasure. You, the reader are meant to think that this is unacceptable, and therefore, denounce factory farming. Although there are many valid objections to this argument, I am in agreement with Norcross and shall be supporting him in this paper. I think the two most practical objections are that (1) most consumers don’t know how the animals are treated whereas Fred clearly does, and (2) if Fred stops enjoying chocolate, no puppies will be tortured, but if a person becomes a vegetarian, no animals will be saved due to the small impact of one consumer. I shall explain the reasoning behind these objections and then present sound responses in line with Norcross’ thinking, thereby refuting the objections.
Anyone, who visits an animal shelter, as I do, sees an extraordinary number of beautiful, affectionate, and desperate dogs and cats. The majority of animals in any particular shelter are dogs, usually adults, for whom there aren't enough adoptive homes waiting. A few may have come from responsible breeders, whose owners do not realize that the breeder will take them back,many are those who are lost, and/or from owners who simply got tired of them. Some are pet shop puppies from a puppy mill that did not meet the owner's expectations due to health, temperament, or other reasons. A large number usually turn out to be the result of deliberate and irresponsible home breeding. These people are known as "back-yard breeders." And that is not a compliment.
Factory farms have portrayed cruelty to animals in a way that is horrific; unfortunately the public often does not see what really goes on inside these “farms.” In order to understand the conditions present in these factory farms, it must first be examined what the animals in these factory farms are eating. Some of the ingredients commonly used in feeding the animals inside factory farms include the following: animal byproducts, plastic, drugs and chemicals, excessive grains, and meat from members of the same species. (Adams, 2007) These animals are tortured and used for purely slaughter in order to be fed on. Typically large numbers of animals are kept in closed and tight confinements, having only little room to move around, if even that. These confinements can lead to suffocation and death and is not rare. Evidence fr...
Many people believe that the only way to get a pet is to “buy” one without considering adopting, which is why I believe people should consider looking up better options and become more knowledgeable. There are so many reasons why someone shouldn’t buy a pet from a breeder, and so many benefits from adopting a pet from your local shelter/animal rescue.
Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without food, water and proper health care.