Puppy Mills

1. Dogs are bred & rebred every time they come into heat.
2. They live outside most of the time in cages with wire bottoms where they get caught and tear they legs or worse. Sometimes these are stacked where the feces & urine does down into the cages below.
3. Outside in hot or cold temperatures Rain snow it doesn't matter. They are not protected.
4. Many times there are several in one cage crowded and crapped
5. The filth is enough to make them sick and there is no vetinerary care for those who are or are injured.
6. They are never left out of their cages- never loved or handled.
7. Babies are born with defects from the abuse.
8. They are inter bred which can lead to more defects.
9. They are feed only enough to keep them alive. Most of the time the food bowls are empty and no water.
10. Some places ram pipes down their throats to keep them from barking.
11. Puppies are taken from the mothers long before it is time. They are shipped in trucks sometimes across states overcrowded and not taken care of.
12. Brokers take them to pet stores to sell. They have not been checked for defects or any diseases.
13. When a puppymill puppy is bought – the owner can end up paying thousands of dollars because of the conditions they were bred and transported in.
14. A lot don't even make it. They die before they ever get to the pet stores.
15. If they are deformed and not good for more breeding they are killed in inhumane ways.
16. They are never socialized. They never get out of they cages.
17. Many of these puppies are born with genetic conditions of the heart and lungs, seizures which sometimes don't show up for years.
18. Many of them have parvo, worms, mange, and various other disorders.
19. Even if they come with registration papers – it does not mean they came from good breeding conditions.
20. The AKC receives revenue from the millers for these registrations
21. When the parents are no longer useful to the millers they are disposed of- (shot- beat or what ever methods they want to use. )

Remember this for every puppy sold at a pet shop

– A shelter puppy dies.

When you buy a puppy from a pet store or puppy mill you subject the mommie to more torture, They just breed her more.

Every time a puppy is bought from a puppy mill or pet store a shelter puppy dies.

Fact: Female dogs are bred as soon as they can bred and twice a year thereafter until their bodies wear out and they die at about four or five years old or are destroyed.

Fact: The puppies born in mills are proned to diseases, genetic defects, and emotional problems.

Fact: Most kennels do not have climate control. The dogs are out in the cold winter and the hot summer, often dying from exposure. Puppies are known to have "cooked on the wires."

Fact: Female dogs are bred so many time their internal organs can grow together.

Fact: Dogs suffer malnutrition so severe that their hair falls out.

Fact: The combination of poor food, poor conditions and no veterinary care causes their teeth to rot at early ages. Often the dogs have gum disease and their jaws rot.

Fact: Dogs often have their feet or legs are ripped off trying to get their feet and legs freed from being caught in the wires of the cages

Fact: Dogs are debarked by shoving a metal pipe down their throats to rupture their vocal cords.

Fact: When dogs can no longer produce, they are often shot, hit in the head or worse

Fact: They never know love or human companionship.

The conditions in the mills are horrible and terrifying. Many dogs eventually lose their minds. Their eyes glaze over and they withdraw. Frequently they develop repetitive behaviors like licking, biting their fur and going round and round in circles.

The dogs never get out of the their cages. . They never run in the grass. Dogs are often trapped in cages with aggressive dogs and have no way to escape.