More About the Heartaches & Horrors of Puppy Mills

DON’T buy puppies from pet stores!

When we buy a pet or even shop at a store that sells puppies, we contribute to a heartless underground industry that forces dogs to spend their entire lives in cages constantly breeding to support consumer demand for puppies. These dogs are never groomed or handled, fed just enough to stay alive. And the breeders don’t care if they are blind, or injured or suffering, just as long as they produce puppies (which are taken from their mothers too young).

The pictures above of are three lucky puppy mills dogs - they escaped the horror!

Hope is a Maltese and weighed less than 2 pounds when she was rescued. She is now happy and a little more healthy, but her health is still very fragile. But she made some beautiful Maltese puppies for the mill owner, who made the money while she suffered.

Carmen is a Shitzu! Hard to believe from looking at her. She put out litter after litter of this popular breed while her hair fell out from malnutrition and she lost her teeth. She has been on the slow path to recovery, although she will never be healthy, at least she is now well fed and happy.

Telly is a blue Dachsund who is permanently paralyzed because his injuries were never treated as he was used for breeding for five years. Blue Dachsunds are a defect and almost never have a normal life span, so they should not be bred. But puppy millers breed them anyway, because they are rare. When Telly was rescued, his skin was peeling off his body and he was encrusted in ‘poop’, because he couldn’t get away from his cramped cage. He is now safe, but he will be paralyzed for the rest of his short life.

These three dogs were saved from their lives of horror, but thousands more die in the squalor. And puppy millers make money off their suffering and degradation. The puppies are taken from the cages and shipped to a clearing house where they are cleaned and shipped to pet stores, where unsuspecting consumers buy those poorly-bred babies for exorbitant prices that make money to continue this cruelty.

PLEASE, don’t be a part of this! Adopt a rescue, don’t buy a puppy from a pet store!

PuppyLove

P.S. Because of the continuous breeding, female dogs are old and worn out within just a few years, at which time they are discarded or killed and their latest daughters start breeding.