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boycott pet stores!
Those cute cats and dogs sold at pet stores come from a horrible, horrible place: puppy and kitten mills. Animal breeders are in the business of making money and animal welfare is, unfortunately, not a priority. I'm including some information about pet mills from the Peta website.
Cages, Filth, and Neglect
Puppy mill kennels can consist of small cages made of wood and wire mesh, tractor-trailer cabs, or simple tethers attached to trees. One Arkansas facility had ?cages hanging from the ceiling of an unheated cinder-block building ??2 Female dogs are bred twice a year and are usually destroyed when they are no longer able to produce puppies.3 Mothers and their litters often suffer from malnutrition, exposure, and a lack of adequate veterinary care.
Puppies are taken from their mothers and sold to brokers who pack them into crates for transport and resale to pet stores. Puppies who are shipped from mill to broker to pet store can travel hundreds of miles in pickup trucks, tractor trailers, and/or airplanes, often without adequate food, water, ventilation, or shelter. Two men faced charges after 38 puppies were found to be confined in a feces-filled van without food, water, or space to exercise. The men were transporting the animals from Oklahoma to Florida when a passerby noticed the dogs? distressed barking and the foul stench of the van, which was parked at a Daytona Beach motel.4 In Tennessee, 150 overheated puppies, who were traveling from a Missouri puppy mill to pet stores on the East Coast, were found in a cargo truck without air conditioning; four died.5 Even if a store claims that it doesn?t buy from puppy mills, there is a good chance that it buys from a broker who does.6
Young puppies who survive the unsanitary conditions at puppy mills and grueling transport to pet stores rarely get the kind of loving human contact that is necessary for them to become suitable companions. By not spending money for proper food, housing, or veterinary care, breeders, brokers, and pet stores ensure maximum profits.
Conditions don?t improve much when puppies reach pet stores. Dogs who are kept in small cages without exercise, love, or human contact tend to develop undesirable behaviors and may bark excessively or become destructive and unsociable. Unlike humane societies and shelters, pet stores do not screen buyers or inspect the future homes of the dogs they sell. Poor enforcement of humane laws allows shops to continue selling sick animals, although humane societies and police departments sometimes succeed in closing down stores where severe abuse is uncovered.
Farms and Brokers Do Big Business
In 2000, PETA conducted an undercover investigation at Neilsen Farms, a Kansas puppy mill. The dogs at Neilsen Farms had no bedding or protection from cold or heat. Some were suffering from untreated wounds, ear infections, and abscessed feet, and confinement and loneliness had caused some mother dogs to go mad. PETA?s investigator witnessed one USDA inspection during which the officer glanced at the cages but did not examine the dogs. Our investigation led to the Kansas facility?s closing, but Neilsen Farms has since moved to Montana where it continues to be involved in the selling of puppies.7
There are thousands of breeders and dealers across the country-in Missouri alone there are an estimated 3,000 dog-breeding operations that generate $2 billion a year.8 The nation?s largest puppy broker is the Hunte Corporation in Missouri, which also exports dogs overseas.9 The company has been linked to numerous negligent pet stores and breeders and has sponsored American Kennel Club (AKC) meetings.10 The USDA has loaned the company more than $4 million for expansion and upgrades in the last three years-taxpayer money used to bring more misery to dogs and puppies.
Cages, Filth, and Neglect
Puppy mill kennels can consist of small cages made of wood and wire mesh, tractor-trailer cabs, or simple tethers attached to trees. One Arkansas facility had ?cages hanging from the ceiling of an unheated cinder-block building ??2 Female dogs are bred twice a year and are usually destroyed when they are no longer able to produce puppies.3 Mothers and their litters often suffer from malnutrition, exposure, and a lack of adequate veterinary care.
Puppies are taken from their mothers and sold to brokers who pack them into crates for transport and resale to pet stores. Puppies who are shipped from mill to broker to pet store can travel hundreds of miles in pickup trucks, tractor trailers, and/or airplanes, often without adequate food, water, ventilation, or shelter. Two men faced charges after 38 puppies were found to be confined in a feces-filled van without food, water, or space to exercise. The men were transporting the animals from Oklahoma to Florida when a passerby noticed the dogs? distressed barking and the foul stench of the van, which was parked at a Daytona Beach motel.4 In Tennessee, 150 overheated puppies, who were traveling from a Missouri puppy mill to pet stores on the East Coast, were found in a cargo truck without air conditioning; four died.5 Even if a store claims that it doesn?t buy from puppy mills, there is a good chance that it buys from a broker who does.6
Young puppies who survive the unsanitary conditions at puppy mills and grueling transport to pet stores rarely get the kind of loving human contact that is necessary for them to become suitable companions. By not spending money for proper food, housing, or veterinary care, breeders, brokers, and pet stores ensure maximum profits.
Conditions don?t improve much when puppies reach pet stores. Dogs who are kept in small cages without exercise, love, or human contact tend to develop undesirable behaviors and may bark excessively or become destructive and unsociable. Unlike humane societies and shelters, pet stores do not screen buyers or inspect the future homes of the dogs they sell. Poor enforcement of humane laws allows shops to continue selling sick animals, although humane societies and police departments sometimes succeed in closing down stores where severe abuse is uncovered.
Farms and Brokers Do Big Business
In 2000, PETA conducted an undercover investigation at Neilsen Farms, a Kansas puppy mill. The dogs at Neilsen Farms had no bedding or protection from cold or heat. Some were suffering from untreated wounds, ear infections, and abscessed feet, and confinement and loneliness had caused some mother dogs to go mad. PETA?s investigator witnessed one USDA inspection during which the officer glanced at the cages but did not examine the dogs. Our investigation led to the Kansas facility?s closing, but Neilsen Farms has since moved to Montana where it continues to be involved in the selling of puppies.7
There are thousands of breeders and dealers across the country-in Missouri alone there are an estimated 3,000 dog-breeding operations that generate $2 billion a year.8 The nation?s largest puppy broker is the Hunte Corporation in Missouri, which also exports dogs overseas.9 The company has been linked to numerous negligent pet stores and breeders and has sponsored American Kennel Club (AKC) meetings.10 The USDA has loaned the company more than $4 million for expansion and upgrades in the last three years-taxpayer money used to bring more misery to dogs and puppies.