Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to help abolish puppy mills by adopting and volunteering. Those no matter how big or small their efforts are, that can make a difference and help cease puppy mills and their perpetuation in our society. Method of Organization: Monroe’s motivated sequence, appealing to the question of value. Attention: Imagine this scenario: A little girl who has been shopping all day with her Mom at the mall. She has already used up the battery on her iPad , she is bored, grumpy an tired of going store to store with her Mom. When all of a sudden they turn the corner, the little girl’s eyes light up and she has a smile from ear to ear. No she did not see the Disney store or Build-a-Bear Workshop; but low and behold …show more content…
she sees the Pet Shop. She and her Mom proceed to go inside, where that day, the Pet Shop had the cutest little brown Cocker Spaniel on display in the window. The cute little puppy jumped up on her hind legs and put her little paws on the glass window and started wagging her tail; she was overwhelmed excitement to see the little girl and her mom. Instantly, they fell in love with the little puppy. And the Mom, made one final purchase for that day, a cute little puppy. So this scenario might not seem bad, on the contrary it seems like a happy story.
The little girl and Mom saved the puppy from the Puppy Shop, right? Yes, they did save that ONE puppy, but they only added to the fuel of the Puppy mill industry. They could have adopted the same breed of puppy at a local animal shelter or rescue. In fact, the Humane Society estimated that each year, 2.7 million adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States, simply because too many pets come into shelters and too few people consider adoption when looking for a pet (2018). Making it very important to know that the number of euthanized animals could be reduced dramatically if more people adopted pets instead of buying …show more content…
them. Today I’ll explain what are puppy mills and their problems, why adopting is a better choice and ways to volunteer and help stop of puppy mills. Body Need: I. To begin with, puppy mills or dog breeding facilities are breeding disease and tragedy and only creating severe problems. A. For starters, the International Society for Animals Rights states that Puppy mills are commercial breeding facilities which mass produce dogs solely for profit, often forsaking all else, including proper care, nutrition, and socialization (2018). 1. The PuppyMillProject.com estimates that 90% of all puppies sold in pet shops are the product of these corrupt breeders who indiscriminately breed dogs without regard for the animals feelings, well being, temperament and health (2015). B. Furthermore, the conditions at most of these puppy mills are beyond horrendous. 1. In June of 2014, Rachel Curit, a writer for One Green Planet, explained dogs are typically kept in wire cages or hutches. In theory, this allows feces to drop from the cage to the ground, but often times cages are stacked on top of each other, which means that feces falls onto the dogs below (2014). 2. And according to the Animals Rescue Corps, feces often cakes cages so heavily it becomes the only solid surface on which they can stand. The puppies that do have floors lie on uric acid, from urine build-up, which burns their skin and paws while the ammonia cases respiratory problems (2018). C. Clearly, the problems associated with puppy mills have become inexcusable and we can only blame ourselves for the puppy mills existence. 1. The greedy puppy mill operators will only stop this irresponsible breeding only when there is no longer a demand for the animals they produce. Satisfaction: II. Which means we hold the power to change the puppy industry. In making it not about money, but by converting it into a movement of saving lives and finding forever homes. A. By adopting a dog from an animal shelter instead of buying one at the pet store, you are saving a life and hurting the puppy mills business. 1. As noted by the Human society of the United States animal shelter and rescues are brimming with happy, healthy pets just waiting for someone to take them home. These pets have received veterinary care, proper food and water, and love and attention, while puppies from puppy mills often have infections or parasites and personality disorders from lack of socialization (2018). B. But if adopting a pet is too much of a commitment, you can always volunteer your free time. 1. You can volunteer your free time at a local animal shelter. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimates that there are 5,000 shelters across the country, and these shelters take in an average of 5 to 7 million animals per year (2018). The animals keep coming and more people are needed everyday. 2. Or you can choose to volunteer and support puppy mill busters like The Puppy Mill Project and the Humane Society. C. Nevertheless, if commitment and time are issues for you, you can still help support shelters and rescues with a donation. 1. Shelters can always use some extra supplies. So a donation such as water, food, collars and leashes can be a tremendous help. 2. Even a monetary donation to a puppy mill buster association can help in saving puppies from puppies mills and ultimately shutting them down all together. D. Lastly, the easiest option of them all is spreading the word. 1. You can help raise awareness by sharing about puppy mills on social media. Every little bit of action helps. Visualization: III. Now take a moment and imagine the benefits of abolishing all puppy mills. A. We can look at every cute little puppy without any hesitation. 1. We don’t have to wonder, where they came? Are they mentality or physically okay? 2. We can just look at every little puppy and know it was saved from horrible world of puppy mills. B. Adopting your next companion from an animal shelter or rescue will make a difference. 1. There are millions of homeless animals across the nation waiting for their for their forever homes. C. Take for example myself; I have adopted two little white puppies from a rescue that I found on social media. 1. I used “Precious Pals Pet Rescue” on Instragram to help find and rescue my puppies. 2. On that app I was able to find Jax, my crazy full of energy Havanese pup. He has amazing little personality and can make anyone smile. 3. And then there is Pinkie, my Maltipoo. She is my tough little girl, who thinks she is ten times bigger than any dog. She is really a handful but I wouldn’t change her for the world. Action: IV. In closing, we can end puppy mills and their abuse by adopting from animal shelters/rescues and spreading the word about the horrors of puppy mills. A. I hope you now know and understand, the real problems with puppy mills and the solutions and power you have to bring them to an end. B.
And do you remember the story that I started with about the little girl and Mom purchasing that cute little brown Cocker Spaniel? Well the Mom soon realized that the little puppy was too much to handle. So the Mom took the puppy to local animal shelter and gave up her rights. The puppy was sad, but was excited of the opportunity of a forever home. Unfortunately, days, weeks, months past and no other family came around. Soon the shelter was at its max and since the puppy had been there the longest; she had to endure the same fate as many animals in the animal shelter do. That of a perfectly healthy innocent puppy has to be
euthanized. C. But this not the way it has end, we have power to change it! D. I strongly recommend visiting your local animal shelter and rescue. 1. Here are two animals shelters close to us: a. Inland valley Humane Society, located at 500 Humane Way in Pomona b. Friends of the Upland Animal Shelter, located at 1275 San Bernardino Rd. in Upland 2. So I, urge you to please go to any of these shelters and rescues and make a difference! E. Because it is ultimately up to us to “Say No to Puppy Mills!”
A puppy mill is a horrible place that breeds dogs. Dogs that are breedable may get little to no recovery time between pregnancies. Dogs and puppies are stuffed into wire cages that can harm them. Puppy mills tend to be overcrowded disease and virus filled places. Puppy mills focus on profit rather than the health of the dogs. Many dogs are bred with little regard of genetic quality. Dogs in puppy mills are deprived of veterinary care, food, water, and socialization. If a dog is older and unable to breed anymore they are likely to be killed. Some dogs may never see the light of day or get any attention.
Faye is fighting to re-home animals that have been abandoned and abused. Since 2012 she has re-homed more than 60 dogs, and about 20 kittens. Faye says, “I would do anything no matter what to save one animal.” It’s as if her whole entire life revolves around saving animals. Faye thinks just by adopting an animal you can help animal abandonment. Also, Faye has her own book on why animal abandonment isn’t good. Although Faye thinks her job is stressful, she thinks it’s easy because she enjoys doing her job and helping animals find a home.
What is a Puppy Mill, How are animals being at Puppy Mills. Animals are being severely neglected by the owners. Responsible breeding practices end up killing. Animals get abused and usually are left to die with no food, water or even locked in a cage. Puppy mills are operating all over the U.S. After breeding for amount of times and don’t get time to recover and cant reproduce anymore are often killed off. Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without care, food, water and socialization. Puppy mill dogs do not get to experience treats, toys, exercise or basic grooming. To minimize waste cleanup, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs- and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns. Breeding dogs at mills might spend their entire lives outdoors, exposed to the elements, or crammed inside filthy structure where they never get the chance to feel the sun or breathe fresh air. Puppy Mills should be outlawed because some animals are being severely neglected and owners act out without regard to respons...
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...
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.
“A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing does not have a heart. A dog’s heart is bigger than any “thing” you can ever own.” -Elizabeth Parker. According to the ASPCA, a puppy mill can be defined as “a large-scale commercial dog breeding facility where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs” (Puppy Mills 1). Dogs are more than just items that are sold for profit, they are part of many people’s families. The way dogs are being treated in the mills is not the way one would want someone in your family to be treated. Because puppy mills do not care for the animal’s health, wellbeing, or safety they should be banned federally.
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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.
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There are around four million dogs alone taken into animal shelters here in the United States every year. Over one million of those dogs end up getting euthanized. As of 2012, the United States of America was ranked first in the entire World for having the most dogs: somewhere close to seventy-six million. The over-population of dogs is a real problem in this country. In America, two point eleven million puppies are sold every year from puppy mills, while about three million are killed in shelters because they are too full. Within the past twenty years, puppy mills have become very popular. Unlike animal shelters, puppy mills are designed to get puppy bred and sold as fast as possible. Since puppy Mills are intended for
Since this article came out on July 19th, 2015, efforts were made to stop puppy mills. Many organizations like National Mill Dog Rescue, North Shore Animal League America, Hearts United for Animals, American Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The Humane Society of the United States, and many others are coming together and trying to fight pet stores from buying puppies from puppy’s mills and stopping puppy mills in general. Ultimately the article is extremely successful with the rhetorical strategies used in the text, which has persuaded me to be more aware and smarter in what’s really happening in these pet stores, puppy mills, and even behind closed doors, where these pet stores are getting their pets and how bad are being mentally and physically abused at these puppy mills and pet
Everyone wants that cute little brown and white puppy in the cage with its 5 siblings, but do you know where it really came from? Puppy mills are becoming more and more popular and also raising concerns, with good reason. In this essay I will highlight negative effects of puppy mills and 3 main ways they can be prevented.
Huffington Post says that "There are an estimated 2.1 million puppies sold through puppy mills each year, while an estimated 2.4 million healthy, adoptable animals are euthanized in shelters annually." Local pet stores usually sell you the dogs that they have received from puppy mills. Animals from mills are hurt and traumatized daily, they aren’t provided much food or water and are all stuffed together in a couple cages which consists of many other breeds of dogs. Puppy mills breed small dogs with big dogs which can result in death, illness or can cause the puppies to be born with problems. According to aspca.org, just because a store or business shows you a license or papers for the dog doesn't mean the puppies haven't came from a mill. It also mentions that responsible breeders would want a puppy to go to a safe and loving home, and often times want to meet the family that the puppy is going to live with. However, as long as they are making money, pet stores and mills really don't care what kind of living condition or home the puppy is going to. Although there are benefits to having a mill they shouldn’t be allowed all the time. Mills help keep pet stores in business, without being supplied with puppies or other animals they wouldn’t have much of a business and wouldn’t be able to make enough money to help the store, but why not just wait and let nature do its job? Animals and humans are brought into this world to reproduce and when they're ready they will. God put them on this earth for a reason and to bring joy and love to people, we should do our best to keep them safe and treat animals with love.. not harm. Animals shouldn’t be forced to breed at any cost, that’s like sitting two people in a room and giving them no choice but to reproduce. Animals should be treated just like
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
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience purchase their dogs from breeders and not puppy mills o the Internet because puppy mills can me detrimental to a puppy’s health.