Argumentative Essay On Puppy Mills

How much is that doggy in the window? The one with the waggly tail? Well, if you knew where the puppy came from, you may think twice about purchasing the canine. Puppy mills have been around for over fifty years. (1) In these mills, the people who are in charge of the dogs, also known as breeders, are breeding female dogs left and right. Not only are they breeding them every chance they get, but they are performing this task in very unsanitary conditions which causes serious health issues to these animals in the mills. While puppy mills can help people who want to find a breed of dog that is hard to find, puppy mills need to be terminated due to the puppies’ being mistreated and abused, the overpopulation of dogs causing euthanization, and

the breeders getting paid for selling the abused canines.

First and foremost, the breeders are mistreating and abusing the innocent puppies that they have bred and are forcing them to live in extremely unsanitary conditions.

Puppies living in these mills receive very little to no veterinary care and when they do provide the care, they perform it without training, anesthesia, or a proper sanitary environment. (2) Without the appropriate tools and medicine, these canines can become contaminated and may develop many forms of disease from being exposed to the various kinds of bacteria in the atmosphere. The mothers of the puppies are forced to breed every heat cycle. (2) Doing so makes the female dog weak and after the female can no longer produce, the breeders have three choices. They can either be inhumanly put down, sold at auctions for as little as twenty-five cents, or given to other mills. (9) The mill dogs don’t get to experience the normal puppy life. (4) They have never been given a treat, been groomed, given toys, or even given the correct amount of exercise that every dog needs to stay healthy. They are often kept in cages that have wire flooring which wounds their paws. (4) The puppies may spend their entire lives outside or crammed inside dangerous structures where they never get to breathe fresh air. (4) Even the shipping conditions are brutal. The pups can be forced to spend up to twelve consecutive hours without food, water, or fresh air, and they are confined in a tight space where diseases can be easily transmitted

to surrounding animals. (2) Many of the puppies don’t make it to the pet stores alive. (2) This industry is greatly influencing the overpopulation of canines in the world.

As a consequence of puppy mills, overpopulation of dogs is becoming an issue. There are about ten thousand puppy mills nationwide. (5) There may be even more puppy mills than we know of because they are unlicensed and do it in their own homes. These thousands of puppy mills are taking advantage of the breeding abilities of female dogs. There are over two million puppies bred in these mills per year. (2) That is more puppies than the entire population of Houston, Texas! The worst part about this is that about 1.2 million dogs are euthanized in shelters every year because no one will adopt them. (2) I, along with thousands of other people, believe that it is completely ridiculous that puppies are being killed because of unpleasant human beings. They deserve to have a full life and not be put to sleep because there is not enough decent people in this world to take care of them and give them the life that they deserve. If you decide to purchase a puppy from a pet store, it keeps the cycle strong by encouraging more breeding, which leads to even more killing of the canine’s. (5) However, if you adopt a dog from a rescue facility, it saves the puppies lives. If we stop the breeders from breeding more dogs, this would settle down and nearly all the dogs in the world will have a home. But to fix this problem, we need to get attention towards the breeders and have them stopped.

No doubt, we, together, need to defeat these puppy mills once and for all.

The breeders are the ones causing this tragic issue and we need to stop them from bringing any more harm. Puppy mills are all about making profit out of the puppies. The money spent on care, food, staff, and shelter cuts into the profit margin causing the breeders to want to spend the least amount of money on the puppies so they can keep the bigger profit. (2) The breeder always wants to make the largest profit possible so they spend very, very little on the canine’s needs and care. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is known for their puppy mills and just one of the breeders sold 1,293 puppies for only $290 in just one transaction. (7) That is just like a grocery shopping trip for a house of five people, but coming home with over one thousand puppies in the back of your car. An average puppy breeder makes about $300,000 on the pups a year. (1) That is almost three times the average American salary. They are getting paid more than an average American for mistreating thousands of dogs. Commercial puppy-breeding is now a multi-billion dollar business. (6) If a breeder is caught, which is very rare because the government does not keep track of the mills anymore, they are charged with animal cruelty and will give you a fine less than $4,000 and possibly, but rarely, one year in jail. (7) The consequences need to be greater. For example, the criminals deserve more than just one year in prison. The punishment needs

to be at least twenty years in prison with a much greater fine. Maybe after we raise the consequences, the mills will stop once and for all.

All things considered, while puppy mills can help people who want to find a breed of dog that is hard to find, puppy mills need to be terminated due to the puppies being mistreated and abused, the overpopulation of dogs causing euthanization, and the breeders getting paid for selling the abused canines. We can make this a law together. We need to make puppy mills illegal in the United States of America. If we don’t, puppies will continue to be euthanized and executed around the world. Now, whatever you do, don’t think about dead puppies. (I made you think about it, didn’t I? It’s horrific, isn’t it?)