The Horrors of Puppy Mills Gayle Huff COM/150 March 21‚ 2010 Alison Bonham The Horrors of Puppy Mills Molly is a three-year-old miniature Pomeranian that has been rescued from a puppy mill. She lived her whole life in a wire cage with others stacked on top of her. When she was rescued‚ she weighed four pounds and was covered in feces from the dogs that lived above her. Her hair was matted‚ her teeth were rotten‚ and her nails were over grown. She had never felt grass on her feet
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into the pet store and seeing all of the cute puppies in the window. What many people do not think about is how much those puppies have gone through in their short period of life. That one dog that you see in the window was born from a mother who has had a litter of puppies every time she came into heat since the age of one year old. That one puppy has been around hundreds of howling and barking dogs since the moment they could first hear. That one puppy may not have been fed for weeks before entering
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Tiffany Baldeo MWF 8:00-8:50am ENC1101 Informative Essay Puppy Mills‚ Be gone! Bulldogs on sale! Yorkie puppies available here! Have you ever wondered where all these cheap puppies for sale in pet stores come from? The answer is that they are produced in factory-like environments known as “puppy mills”. Puppy mills are large-scale dog breeding operations where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. Puppy mills treat dogs like products‚ not living beings‚ and usually house
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Pet Shops are a Bad Place to buy Your New Puppy The general public is greatly uninformed about how to find a healthy puppy to bring into their families. Too often they head to a local pet store. That cute little ball of fluff jumping around in the pet store window with a red bow around its neck is the picture of health‚ or is it? So Joe Q. Public confidently slaps down a credit card and gathers little Fluffy in his arms and takes him home to see his happy kids play with adorable Fluffy. Sadly‚ Fluffy’s
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Welch 1 Puppy Mills A puppy mill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation that places profit over the well being of its dogs who were very oftenly severely neglected and acts without regard to responsible breeding practices. Some puppy mills puppies are sold pet shops. Usually through a broker or middleman and marketed as young weeks of age (ASPCA). Some puppy mill puppies are sold over the internet‚ directly to the public‚ in newspaper ads‚ and at flea markets. Illnesses are common
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Exposing Puppy Mills Puppy mills have been in the United States for many years‚ they are underground run organizations so they are not easily monitored by animal control units. Puppy Mills are places where purebred dogs are kept in small confinements‚ are severely neglected and are forced to mate until their bodies cannot handle it anymore‚ which then they are inhumanely killed. The puppies then are sent off to pet stores‚ leaving the bitches and studs there to continue the abusive cycle. Animal
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Making Animals Lives Better Puppy Mills Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcramed and dirty conditions without very good veterinary care‚ food or water. To maintain maximize profit‚ female dogs are bred at every time possible with little to no time to recovery between litter. Puppy mill puppies‚ often as young as eight weeks of age‚ are sold to pet shops or directly to people over the Internet‚ throughout newspaper ads and flea markets. In a puppy mill‚ dogs are often kept in cages with wire
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102 Argumentative Essay Puppy Mills Very few people can resist the urge to look at puppies inside the windows of pet shops. However many people do not look at the puppies and wonder where they came from. If you were to look into their background‚ a vigorous past would appear. Have you ever looked behind the screens to see how the pet shops gain control of the puppies‚ or what those little guys had to go through to get there? The inflated prices people pay for the puppies do not relate to the hell
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been breed in a safe environment that your puppy could spend their first few months happily‚ but did you know that very year in America‚ it’s estimated that approximately 2 million puppies are sold that originated from puppy mills‚ so there is a chance that your puppy was born in a brutal environment. Puppy mills are breeding operations that value money over the well-being of dogs. According to https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/puppy-mills‚ “Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary
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Victoria Meilinger English 11011 Mr. Parsons Puppy Mills Imagine walking into a pet store and having puppies give you the saddest looks with their great big teary eyes. Everybody is tempted to take these puppies home because they just appeal and hit every nerve in every way. By spending money on a puppy from a pet store‚ you support a really ugly industry. This industry is known as puppy mills. A puppy mill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority
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