Puppy Store Puppies?

Yes, these little pups do deserve a home. No, I do not think it would stop puppy mills. They will simply find another way to sale them. For example, there is a flea market not far from where I live. They often have pups for sale.

Yes, I think it will stop puppymills. The trick is getting the word out. When people STOP buying puppies from petstores, the puppy mills will no longer have a market for thier puppys and they will eventually go out of business. By buying a puppy from a petstore you are telling the store that you approve of thier business and proving that there IS a market for dogs from puppymills. The dog you just bought has only freed up a space for another puppymill pupy to fill and the cycle will continue. In fact, by buying ANYTHING at a store that sells puppies you are silently approving of thier practices. If people boycotts stores that sell puppies, the stores will either close or change practices. EVERY person counts- its the small number of people, like yourself, who continue to buy from petstores that keep them in business. Ussually the reasoning is "to save a life" because you feel sorry for the mill dogs- think of it this way- for every mill dog you buy you encourage the breeding and continues operation of these mills, contributing to the suffering of THOUSANDS of other dogs. In the short term, yes these dogs will either go back to the breeder, or be put to sleep, but in the long run less dogs will be bred under those conditions and puppy mills will start to close when the market drys up. Its a matter of being cruel to be kind. If the public refuses to buy dogs who have been poorly bred it will no longer be profitable to do so and the number of unwanted overpopulated dogs as a whole in this country will decrease. -Neb

It's a big picture thing. If nobody buys pups from pet stores or dealers then people will stop breeding dogs purely for profit when they know nothing about breeding.

It may cause some hardship for the individual dogs in pet stores in the short term, but in the long term it will hopefully mean that less dogs suffer through ignorance.

Another bad part of dogs being sold in stores is that people often end up with a dog as an impulse buy because of this. A dog or a puppy should never ever be an impulse buy, it should be researched and contemplated to make sure that the owner will be ready for the commitment they are making.

The point is to put the store out of business that sell these puppies. Do you really want a puppy that may have come out of the horrific conditions that exist in puppy mills? Just google puppymill and then go to the sites that expose these chambers or horrors!! Then ask yourself if you want to encourage those greedy abusive people to stay in business breeding dogs. If you want a dog, or even a puppy, www.petfinder.com is a great place to look, find a best friend and save a life.

If a puppy at the pet store isn't selling, first the pet store will reduce the price. Eventually if the puppy isn't sold, it will be returned to the mill that it came from. While this is unfortunate for that particular puppy, it will save future puppies down the road. When puppies aren't selling it makes the owner or manager of the pet store think that the costs associated with stocking puppies is not worth the price they can sell puppies at, and they will discontinue the practice. If the mills don't have a market to supply to, they will go out of business.

The point is this if you buy the puppy you are keeping the store and puppy mills in business. The more they make the more dogs they produce.

Sure the puppies deserve a home they are innocent animals BUT, if you buy them then you are only allowing for a new puppy to replace the one that you just bought.

If no one bought from them they would go out of business then!!!

Puppy mills breed as many puppies as possible so that they can get as many good ones to sell.. They inbreed mothers and sons, sister and brother etc. This inbreeding creates a genetic problem that causes birth defects. When a puppy from a puppy mill is born with a defect, or maybe it just doesnt have the most desirable colorings, they kill it. smashing its skull is the preferred way because it is inexpensive. So when you go to the puppy store and look at all those cute puppies, think about all their brothers and sisters who were discarded like old trash simply because they wouldnt be as profitable.

Well, for myself, I do not want to support puppy mills. Nor do I want to deal with the health problems that these pups often suffer. If the demand is taken away, the supply will be, too. Maybe it's unlikely that they will stop, but I don't want to support unethical breeders.

All dogs deserve a good home. Puppy mills do not deserve to make money, nor do the stores that sell their pups.

They do deserve a home.But if you stop buying from petstores maybe puppymills will get shut down and puppys already in the store might go to a shelter

Unsold puppy store puppies are often returned to the puppymill that they came from. There they are bred repeatedly, until the puppymill decides they can no longer turn a profit from that dog.

Other unsold puppies are sometimes surrendered to shelters, rescue groups, or they are put down.

It's not that they don't deserve a home.

It's that these dogs are rarely healthy. They have genetic diseases that are either masked or don't show up until the pup is older. How would you feel if you spent that much on a puppy, only to find out it needs to be euthanized?

Anytime you take a puppy away from it's mother, you risk Parvo and Distemper, among other dread diseases.

They are taken from their mothers too young, grouped together, and they don't take proper care of them.

All of which leads to sickly puppies.

DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!