Persuasive Essay On Puppy Mill

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.

Currently, under the federal Animal Welfare Act of 1966, the USDA licenses and inspects about six thousand puppy mills nationally. Thirty percent of them are Missouri, making the mid-western state “the puppy mill capital of the country”. Most states have one kennel per 100,000 residents, but Missouri has one kennel per every 3,000 residents. As it stands now, in most states, these commercial breeding kennels can legally keep hundreds of dogs in cages their entire lives, for the sole purpose of churning out...

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...forts to change the laws. People should show strong public disapproval of puppy mills and their owners. People should demand pet stores not get their puppies from puppy mills. People should fulfill their wants and desires in finding the perfect puppy, but not at the cost of looking the other way to what the puppy mills are currently doing. Just like blood diamonds and anything carved out of ivory tusks, we must stop buying anything that blood has been shed for cruelly and unjustly. A line should be drawn when we are cruel to animals for our own benefit and/or selfish reasons, or because we believe we are superior. Without a doubt, mistreating and murdering dogs/puppies so we can make more money, or we can feel superior, crosses that line. There’s better ways to earn a living. Puppy mills should be against the law because they’re definitely against the law of nature.