Puppy Mills

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Terrible, terrible, terrible.
I believe my own dog Snoofy originally came from a puppy mill. She was found on the street and sent away to a shelter. When we took Snoofy, she only had a day until she would be euthanized.

The problem of puppy mills is their poor treatment of dogs (which is totally legal) and that fact that they keep reproducing and breeding the dogs, and there are simply too many for people to take in. That's why they have to be euthanized.

It's not only dogs, it's cats as well.

The whole idea just overall sickens me.

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I couldn't bring myself to watch it, I would have been cring the whole hour! As it is I almost left PetLand the other day with a 3 month old Weimeriener because she was too big for the cage she was in!

I used to volunteer at Animal Cruelty here but I had to stop because it was just too heartbreaking.

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I know how you feel!

I almost turned the TV off when they showed Euthanizing the dogs, I cried. It's so sad because the dogs are helpless and they do nothing at all to deserve the treatment they get.

With rodents, its worse....http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/icons/more/angryfire.gif

Our 4 gp's are rescues, 2 of them came from a backyard breeder, and the other two might as well have.....the owners were friends of ours that had 6 babies all in one cage, not separated out by male and female so we took 2 females knowing that they could have already been impregnated, just to break the cycle they had going. I am glad we did. They continued to multiply until they ended up with 6 or 7 again in a cage that was a little bit bigger but still half the size of the cage they needed. Needless to say, this resulted in Butter and Zorro being the only two survivors of all those babies.....they grew to the point that they killed each other 'survival of the fittest/fight to the death' style and then I think I heard one of their cats got the last one. These 4 are living in the lap of luxury though in a 2 story 2 foot by 4 foot cage, they are all girls and luckily Butter and Zorro turned out not to be pregnant and Peanut and Flower we knew weren't pregnant when they came to us. They can get pregnant at 3 weeks old, so I am guessing that we got them just in the nick of time since they were very small. They only weighed 265 and 305 grams when we got them.

I watched it and it was horrible.. We get all our pets from shelters.

It did however make me wonder.. Why is so much publicity being put into this when there are humans living in similar conditions... Human trafficking going on in other parts of the world (even in our country!) Not that i don't love dogs, but shouldn't we be making a bigger deal about the people instead of the animals?

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I watched it and it was horrible.. We get all our pets from shelters.

It did however make me wonder.. Why is so much publicity being put into this when there are humans living in similar conditions... Human trafficking going on in other parts of the world (even in our country!) Not that i don't love dogs, but shouldn't we be making a bigger deal about the people instead of the animals?

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I can agree with that too...it seems to only be the activists groups that bring stuff like that to light, anti-abortion lobbyists, equal rights groups, that kind of stuff. Children are every bit as innocent as animals are, sometimes even moreso.

Just for thought.... next time you want a puppy do not buy from a pet store. That's where most puppies come from are puppy mills. Go to your local animal shelter. Or buy from a reputable breeder.:)

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Just for thought.... next time you want a puppy do not buy from a pet store. That's where most puppies come from are puppy mills. Go to your local animal shelter. Or buy from a reputable breeder.:)

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The term 'reputable breeder' is almost considered an oxymoron amongst people who are big into animal rescues. There are SO many unwanted animals almost anywhere that it is virtually unnecessary to go to a breeder unless you are looking for a 'token' pet...meaning a purebred that would be a symbol of status of being able to afford an expensive dog like the breeds of poodles, for example. I've found in alot of cases the "Heinz 57 mutts" are alot more suitable as pets, almost as if they desire and crave the attention more because they know they are not 'unique' per se.

There *are* alot of breeders who are at least responsible in the way that they breed and they separate themselves from the backyard breeders, but still I'd have a hard time creating more animals to sell for profit knowing how many animals there already are that need a good home....but maybe that's just me, LOL hubby does say I'm too sensitive for my own good sometimes....one of the 'your best traits being your worst downfall' kind of thing. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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I watched it and it was horrible.. We get all our pets from shelters.

It did however make me wonder.. Why is so much publicity being put into this when there are humans living in similar conditions... Human trafficking going on in other parts of the world (even in our country!) Not that i don't love dogs, but shouldn't we be making a bigger deal about the people instead of the animals?

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I agree about the people thing Lego but it is much easier to do something or feel you are making a difference with animals here right at home. I can't go out and hunt down people traffickers but I CAN do something to make a difference here with animals.

and I agree it is heartbreaking. my first cat was adopted from a non-profit no-kill cat organization. The others were adopted from people who had not planned on their cat getting pregnant (or took in a stray that was pregnant). All of mine are spayed or neutered.

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Just for thought.... next time you want a puppy do not buy from a pet store. That's where most puppies come from are puppy mills. Go to your local animal shelter. Or buy from a reputable breeder.:)

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Nothing more true to the word, summer http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/smile.gif I will never get another animal from a pet store.

Always go to the shelters!!!! Those cats/dogs are just as loving and affectionate.

I've always had a soft spot for animals and the elderly. My mom one day asked me why don't I become a vet. I told her that I couldn't watch the animals suffer. Too heartbreaking. I see strays all over the place and I just want to take them home so that they can live the good life. Same thing when I go to a place like Petco. Just want to leave with the lot of them.

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I've always had a soft spot for animals and the elderly. My mom one day asked me why don't I become a vet. I told her that I couldn't watch the animals suffer. Too heartbreaking. I see strays all over the place and I just want to take them home so that they can live the good life. Same thing when I go to a place like Petco. Just want to leave with the lot of them.

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Oh gosh, I'm the same way about veterinary medicine or human medicine..I can't stand to watch animals or kids suffer badly, either one. Hubby worked as an ER scrub orderly back in the 70s and he could *not* work pediatric code 'blues'. It finally got to the point that he just couldn't move at all when he entered a room and saw a kid flatlining......his charge nurse finally told him to just ignore the ped floor calls even though it was part of his job description since he was not the only scrub orderly on at once that was qualified to respond.

He has a soft spot for animals too but still has the presence of mind like in an accident situation to put an animal down to end its needless suffering when its obvious beyond all shades of doubt that it cannot survive (like a broken back or something). I don't even think I could do that much. I could give somebody *else* the go-ahead to do it, but I'm just too much of a wuss to have the guts to do it myself. It's a crisis of conscience for me....on one hand I'd KNOW that I did the right thing ending that animals suffering, but on the other I know myself well enough to know that it would eat at me if I was the one to deliver the final boom *involuntary shiver*. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/icons/more/sad.gif