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About Puppy Mills
Did you know that some of these beautiful dogs you have been viewing started their lives in a puppy mill or with a backyard breeder?
These are the lucky ones because they are on their way to a loving family, but there are so many others out there, begging for help. You can help stop the vicious cycle that so many of these poor dogs are in - DO NOT purchase a dog from a pet store. Make sure you check out the breeder you are purchasing your pet from, meet the parent of your pup, and make sure you ask questions of their overall health. Don't hesitate to ask if they have been genetically tested to prevent future health problems, such as luxating patellas, stenotic nares, etc.
Fact: Over five hundred thousand puppies are born in puppy mills every single year.
Fact: Female dogs are bred when they are just six months old and twice a year thereafter until their bodies wear out and they die at about four or five years old.
Fact: The puppies born in mills often have diseases, genetic defects, and emotional problems.
Fact: Many kennels do not have climate control. The dogs freeze in winter and swelter in 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 grow together.
Fact: Dogs suffer malnutrition so severe that their hair falls out.
Fact: A combination of poor food, poor conditions and no veterinary care causes their teeth to rot at early ages. Often the dogs have such gum disease their jaws rot.
Fact: Dogs often get their feet and legs caught in the wires of the cages and in the struggle to free themselves their feet or legs are ripped off.
Fact: Dogs in mills are debarked by shoving a metal pipe down their throats to rupture their vocal cords.
Fact: When dogs are used up, they are often shot, hit in the head with a rock or dumped.
The conditions in the mills are unrelentingly brutal and terrifying. Many dogs eventually lose their minds from fear. Their eyes glaze over and they withdraw. Frequently they develop repetitive behaviors like licking, biting their fur, and spinning round and round in circles.
The dogs never get out of the wire cages. They never touch the ground. They never run in the grass. Dogs are often trapped in cages with aggressive dogs and have no way to escape. Their bodies are often covered with open wounds, broken limbs, or worse.
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These dogs have committed no crime. They are no different than your beloved pets.
They long to be free, safe, warm, and loved. Instead they are in miserable prisons suffering horrors inflicted by humans - all for greed.
Please help stop this massive, hideous form of breeding and selling of dogs. How?
Adopt your pet from a quality, humane breeder, a shelter or a humane society.
Put up a billboard in your area about puppy mills.
Tell everyone you know about puppy mills.
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.
Call in to a talk show.
Write your state and federal representatives and ask them to pass stronger laws to protect dogs.
Write your local officials and ask for stronger zoning ordinances to stop puppy mill operations.
TO THE BROKEN DOGS
By Melissa Carr
Here's to the broken dogs.
Who came into the world full of hope and love
only to be neglected, abused and abandoned.
Who end up alone and afraid.
Who look to each person with timid hope,
are you the one to love me?
Who survive broken legs, blinded eyes,
starved bodies and broken hearts,
yet still have that glimmer of hope.
The tail that wags through matted fur.
The broken dogs that come to life again
when they find a forever home.
Dogs who shine brighter than ever
and who love with all their hearts.
So here's to the broken dogs,
who's spirits are whole.
Dear Pet Shop Puppy Owner;
Today, your dog's mother died in my arms. After years of enduring relentless pain, living in filth and never knowing kind words or gentle hands, she had the gift of a few months of a life with people who loved her and would do anything for her. It wasn't long enough and she still suffered pain that would probably be unbearable to you or me despite everything possible that could be done for her.
She died on the first perfect day of spring, having never known the feel of the hot sun or gentle summer breezes. She never got to run with abandon through the grass or sniff interesting smells, chew on sticks or dig holes in the yard. She was blind, crippled with arthritis, had a fractured jaw and few teeth from bad diet and no care, and riddled with cancer which invaded her brain and made life confusing and frightening.
We loved her deeply and her loss is almost more than we can bear and made more terrible by the fact that she was only with us for a few short months. It would have taken years and years to make up for the callousness and cruelty she endured at human hands. Even then, it wouldn't have been enough.
Despite all the terrible things that had happened to her, she still bravely faced every day with a joyous heart and wagging tail. She was my teacher and my hero. My life will never be the same.
So hug her puppy close to you this day and think of the sacrifice this angel made so you could have that cute puppy in the window. I hope you realize how lucky you are.
Snowball's Foster Mother.
All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
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