You walk into the “puppy store” at your local mall, you are overwhelmed with joy seeing a ton of baby dogs surrounding you. There are Huskies in one corner, Golden Retrievers and Pugs in another. The price tag reads “$3,000 (not including vetting or tax)” but you don't care. All you can see is the perfect, precious adorable puppies sitting in front of you… But, have you ever thought of how those babies came to be? Or how come they are all fast asleep in those glass cages? Or where their parents are? No, you don't. All you see is a $3,000 perfect puppy and that's all you care about. But here's a reality check for you, their parents are forced to mate in puppy mills and their mothers are used to having babies and that's it. In tiny cramped cages that they can barely move in and with matted hair and once they are too old or unhealthy to have babies, they get killed. Not even humanely, tortured and then killed. Have you ever noticed that your purebred dog lives half as long as your friends shelter dog? This is where Inbreeding comes in. Inbreeding is defined as “breed from closely related …show more content…
It's you. You’re the market for these sick, suffering dogs. Instead of going to a shelter or to an animal rescue group and adopting a dog for $300 (with all vetting included) because they are “old”,“ugly” or “used”. You go into a puppy store and buy a perfect pure puppy. The market for these dogs is so high therefore the problem will never stop. What most people don't know is that there are animal rescue groups for every single purebred dog. These dogs came from puppy mills or owner surrenders and are given second chances. So if you need that perfect dog. At the very least adopt one. Of course, all dogs need homes, but 225,000 dogs die every day (DoSmething.org) and without the help of ending puppy mills and breeding, that number will never
Truly, hereditary qualities plays an expansive part in a mutts conduct, however despite the fact that pooches have been reared for some, extraordinary occupations, they were essentially reproduced for human friendship. Subsequently, they have to feel a similar love and sympathy they give their proprietors. Not exclusively do puppy should be treated with adoration they additionally should be prepared keeping in mind the end goal to set up guidelines and limits. An enormous oversight made by pet proprietors is accepting that pooches know the contrast amongst good and bad.
Jenna Jensen’s article discusses how puppy mills are known to be very inhumane. Due to this puppy’s bodies are worn from being bred multiple times. Their teeth are rotted out, and they have cysts between their toes from the wires they have been forced to stand on. In effort to stop inhumane behavior, 54 Florida municipalities have banned the sale of puppies from puppy mills. Hillsborough County has been noted to be the next county to take a stand against puppy mills.
Puppy mills torture the dogs they have, they breed their dogs to much, and there dogs get very aggressive. Think about it if this goes on more dogs will die and get sick. What will happen other than dogs dying? Will they start doing animals like horses?Other people think that puppy mills should keep going, “there just dogs” they say “it not going to hurt them”. But dogs have feeling to just like people.
Spraying down the walls of the cement kennel, I thought about what might happen to all these wonderful dogs. My newfound buddy Francis, an adorable brindle Pitbull mix, licked my fingers through the steel bars of the next pen. He was a beautiful dog, with excellent confirmation and liquid brown eyes, but his dark color and breed gave him little chance at a forever family. Most of the dogs at Harvest Hills Animal shelter are loving Pit bulls or Pit bull mixes. Thankfully, this is a no-kill establishment but even with the hard work of all these dedicated volunteers thousands of Pit bulls get euthanized every day nationally because of the reputation the breed has become known for.
It is in no way the dogs fault except that they kept that image in their head and still continued to act that way, only because they were taught
They still just use the money for other things such as buying puppies to insert into the puppy mill or new vehicles for transporting puppies, when these puppies could be happier even with minimum health care. These businesses report their own income which makes it easier for them to evade making many payments while working in a “multimillion dollar business” (Hesse). This inexcusable decision to not help the puppies become healthier leads to them being put back into the mill to be resold. Puppy mills may be positive by being one thing that provides someone with enough money to feed their family. These mills may give a homeless person a way to earn money and find a safer place to live.
Also severe tooth decay, ear infections, dehydration, and lesions on their eyes, which almost always leads to blindness. With no concern for hygiene the dogs are forced to relieve themselves in their cages, so they have to walk and sleep on their own feces. Also these dogs are in bad environments so most are not protected by the weather (heat, cold, rain and snow). It's common to find dogs in puppy mills with collars that have been fastened so tightly that they have become embedded in a dog’s neck and must be carefully cut out. Puppy mill operators often fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools, puppies from puppy mills are prone to congenital and hereditary conditions.
When you look in the window at a cute little puppy at a pet store have you ever thought about what that puppy’s life might have been like before they got to that store? Frankly speaking, I never did until I started reading about puppy mills. Puppy farms or puppy mills are institutions of cruelty usually hidden from public view where dogs are housed in shocking appalling conditions. It is not unusual for large number of dogs to be crammed together in filthy pens and cages. As a pet owner, animal lover, or as a concerned adult, it is time for us to save this helpless dogs and puppy as puppy mills are extremely inhumane and need to be stopped.
Once an animal is bought at an animal shelter, they money from you goes straight to the original puppy mill without you knowing. When an animal shelter doesn?t have enough room for all of their animals, they turn to putting them down or letting them free. In often times, no kill shelters are the ones who let these poor animals go. (Vanden Brook) In this speech I?ve told you about how to stop these awful puppy mills from continuing to scam you.
The owners of puppy mills will sell the puppies to Ppetsmart, Ppetco, and other breeders around the area. The people buying the puppies have no idea that they are sick and are in need of serious care of a veterinarian. They the breedersn sell the puppies at the local stores in town. The puppies will die from the sickness and possibly spread the disease to other animals in the
When puppies are born from the same mother they tend to have similar traits such as color, birthmarks, and size. However, once they are separated, the experiences and type of owner they have will result in them being completely different dogs. This is an example of nurture dominating nature. Experiences determine who a person is growing up, not genetics. The way someone is raised, the type of schooling they have, and the friends they have all determine what type of person someone will be once they are grown up.
This leaves the dogs traumatized and rethinking who they should trust.” If you adopt it’ll help a dog live the life it’s always deserved. About 4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year because there simply aren't enough willing homes to adopt them. Since there is an overpopulation, animal shelters urge owners to spay or neuter their pets to exclude overpopulation. Also, It’s more
On one hand, we kept the bred of animal that suits our need and used scientific methods to repopulate near extinct animals, on the other hand we have been trying to breed new species for so long that a lot of known bred today are unsuitable for the natural environment at all. For example, Chiwawa, a breed of extremely miniature dogs that had been specifically designed to be really small, shares a common genetic disease for small dogs called Hypoglycemia. The size of the dog is so unnatural that it burns far more energy then it can intake, resulting in extreme low blood sugar (5). Another problem is that the female dog is so small that natural vaginal delivery can be fatal. A lot of dogs and cats kept their genetic diseases since once we get the breed we want, only that particular bloodline will be mass produced.
Okay look. I’m going to ask a question. Think hard and give a honest answer. How would it feel to know that you were frowned upon because of your skin color? Not cool, right?
Imagine being crammed into a small bedroom with 19 other people. That 's the way Belle, a black Shepard mix from Alabama felt. She stayed in a small dog shelter in Lawrence county, crowded with 300 other homeless dogs waiting for someone to take them in. One couple eventually did adopt her, but soon after realized they were not equipped to take care of her. After the unsuccessful adoption, Belle and a few hundred more animals were taken in from the shelter.