Sunday, July 19, 2009 @ 12:26 AM

Hello people, today I decide to share with you all what is a puppy mills. =] I may not be totally correct if i made any mistake feel free to say your thoughts in my tagboard. Okay, so basically puppy mills are places where dogs are locked up in small cages and breed sole-ly for money purposes. They are to breed and breed till they cant breed anymore. When they reach that stage, often they are abandon in the wild and left to die. Some of them suffer from cuts in their wired cages and some may have their legs badly infected. They are denied care, companionship, shelter, exercise *due to the small cages* and some extreme cases food and water. This result them to have physcial and mental problems such as swaying of their head, crooked head and etc. Below are some true cases of dogs from puppy mills.
This is a case where the dog are injured by the cage and not taken care of. Poor girl..
They are denied proper food and any vet care.
Debarking is a process where often a rod or pipe is forced down their throat and damaging their vocal chords and making them unable to bark anymore.
A picture of a puppy mill. Look at the size of the dogs and the cages. Imagine...
Condition where dogs are kept. In this picture u can see about 3 dogs kept in one wired cage that are rusty. This will result in bad infection when the dogs get cut by the wires.
Another case of dog been debarked.
This picture is kinda extreme but this is what I got from google. Look at the golden dog, notice how many legs he have.
This is my last picture. When you buy from pets store, they are definitely
from puppy mills. Australia imported = from Australia puppy mill. Locally bred = puppy mill in Singapore itself. No respectable breeder will sell a puppy to a pet shop where they can be sold to anyone, if they truly care about the welfare of the puppies, they will want to make sure that the puppies all go to good homes by interviewing the owners themselves. Thus, every purchase only contribute to this kind of industry. No matter how many puppy mills were closed down, more will just start to replace them. If you are a real dog lover please do no buy puppy, adopt them from your local dog shelter. Often they are either grass trained or paper trained and have very good temperament. This will save you any obedient classes fees and time to train them. So save a dog and do not support puppy mill. There is also a less extreme form of puppy mills happening in people's homes. FYI, there are also backyard breeder. people breed their own dogs with irresponsible reasons like the dog must experience motherhood, the dog very good-looking, the dog is pure-breed, the dog is from champion bloodlines, make money to recoup the cost of buying the dog. The dogs are often not check for any health problem nor genetic problems. If you have any question or point you like to raise please feel free to leave a tag. Credit to myself and a little to Tricia. =p
One last quote of the day.
Only when the last tree is cut down,
Only when the last river is poisoned,
Only when the last fish is killed,
Only then man will realize that money can not be eaten.