Today is Puppy Mill Awareness Day
Happy Puppy Mill Awareness Day! Of course, the only way to have a really happy Puppy Mill Awareness day would be if puppy mills were only a memory. Let’s keep up the pressure across North America and that great day could happen in our lifetimes.
If you want to read about the ups and downs of the fight against puppy mills, check out the previous posts on this subject by clicking on the “Puppy Mills” link under Categories on the right.
Lots of other blogs are talking about what this day means. One of those is barked by Johann the Dog. Thanks to Clare at Dog Topics for barking in about today and Johann’s post.
This Saturday is Puppy Mill Awareness Day. Throughout the World there are thousands and thousands of breeding facilities that produce puppies in incredibly large numbers, with the sole purpose of selling these pups to the public through the Internet and newspaper ads, at auctions, or to brokers and pet shops.
The problems with puppy mills are the extensive over- and in-breeding of these poor pups, the lack of medical care, poor food and shelter, overcrowding and sometimes killing of unwanted animals. There is much suffering occurring in these horrible places, and the suffering often continues outside through inherited genetic diseases, illnesses and afflictions.So much needs to happen to stop this cruel practice. What can you do right now?
Follow this link to read the rest of Johann’s post.
Please do not buy puppies from petstores. The parents of these pups suffer in their cages and are bred until they die. They live in small cages, often in horrible conditions and without medical care. The dogs are not being protected by laws. It is supply and demand. If we don’t buy these puppies the puppy millers won’t make a profit. If you were a reputable breeder would you sell your dogs on the internet or in a petstore? Please adopt a dog that is at your animal shelter. We may get put to sleep if you don’t help us! I was rescued and I LOVE LIFE!
My dog Lily was rescued from a puppy mill, because of an inherited defect she was born deaf. She also has juvenile cataracts and retinal degeneration (both also genetic problems that started a few months after her first birthday) and is going blind. I love my dog and would not trade her for anything in the world, but if it were not for Puppy Mills she and countless others like her would not exist and I wish there were no Puppy Mills or irresponsible backyard breeders. It’s a confusing jumble of emotions but it exists. It makes me sick to think of all of the animals suffering in hellish conditions right now, and the many that will be born day after day into the same conditions. Rescues and shelters have millions of homeless would-be best friends waiting, don’t give more money to the puppy mills by buying dogs on the internet or in a store.
Thanks for blogging this, Joy!
Joy, thanks so much for blogging about this important subject! Here’s to a future ‘happy’ Puppy Mill Awareness Day. – Johann