Are u tired of puppy mills?

People who run puppy mills should have something horrible happen to them. Not sure what, but it should be horrible and painful.

I am SO tired of puppy mills!! Here's what I think:

People should have to have a special permit (obtained by taking a test, much like getting your driving learner's permit and paying a fee) to even own an intact dog or cat. There can be different classes of permits based on how many intact animals you own, so you pay a smaller fee for 1 animal than you do for 100. If you are caught with an intact animal and no permit, you should be fined. This should be enforced, and the money from the fines should be used to help fund low or no cost spay/neuter programs and/or sterilize and release programs for wild stray cats. Maybe some of the money could also go to research on an injection that sterilizes animals, so that surgery is not required (this may exist, I don't know, but if it does, it doesn't seem like it's readily available. The research could possibly make it more so?). Then, animal control should be able to make unannounced visits to any person or business who has a higher class permit (maybe if you have more than 5 intact animals). I think this would be very effective at controlling puppy mills and will put a dent in the number of backyard breeders who don't know what they're doing. It's really sad when a golden retriever, a breed known for a gentle, playful disposition, becomes aggressive due to poor breeding! Or, when you buy a sweet little puppy from a newspaper ad, only to have it die on an operating table 5 months later trying to fix a congenital heart defect that could have been prevented had the owners of the parents done their research.

I bought a puppy once from a (what I thought was a reliable pet store) and it turned out it was from a puppy mill and the dog was a mess. He had all sorts of issues and after a year we had to put him down. It was very tragic. I wrote the company HQ for this store and they told me that each store is owned by a franchisee and they were planning to revoke that person's rights to the same. (They did and the store closed). All my dogs since have been rescue dogs. I will never buy another dog in my life. There are too many that need good homes. Once you get a dog from a cage at a shelter, they never stop appreciating you. You get a dog for a friend, not what pedigree it is.

Absolutely! It's sickening to hear the horror stories.

Our vet's office called asking if we were interested in another Boxer as he does free work for shelters. Pregnant Boxer close to due date had some complications and was dropped at a local shelter by the "breeder" in Lancaster. This type of breeder does not believe in paying for medical care for the dogs. The poor girl had all puppies inside her dead but one. Surviving pup is fine but mom had extensive surgery and thank goodness cannot have anymore puppies.

I'm not sure why these people are permitted to continue to breed themselves let alone dogs!

There is no definition of a puppymill. In our opinion anyone who breeds dog with profit as the main motivation and without consideration for the health and well being of the dogs and puppies is guilty of ethical crimes.

There are two kinds of these people - backyard breeders and puppy millers. They should both be driven out of business.

Anyone who has so little concern for the well being of the puppies that they have caused to be brought into the world that they sell them to someone else who will resell them qualifies as a mill in our opinion.

These facilities vary in quality - bad, worse and horrible.

I don't think you can ever trust a retail store to have checked their supplier of animals they sell. They all just want the best price and don't ask many questions from the supplier. I never ever buy pets at a pet store. I only go to breeders that I have researched and questioned and visited. And if any don't allow me to look over every square inch of their facility I move on. It usually means they are hiding something. Pet stores are only good for supplies and foods, but never the actual pet!

No. I never get tired of trying to help animals get out of those situations. i bet working for the ASPCA is a physically tiring job though

No I'm not tired of them I think there are some people still out there who don't know about them so I think its a great idea to spread awareness.

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(I HIGHLY DISLIKE PUPPY MILLS!)

They should all be shut down and the people who buy those poor animals should go to prison with the owners.

yes puppy mills are bad for all