The over population of dogs has been around for years in California they even signed an act to have all stray dogs exterminated. Shortly after WWII when the sales of pure bred puppies was considered “a cash crop”. Farmers across the mid east to the east coast started sprouting up these puppy farms, which were sold to stores across the United States. These farms, which produced puppies for these stores, were later called puppy mills.
After just hearing about this you may think that certain puppy mills seem to be doing a good cause, bringing in animals for people to adopt, but in reality these animals that are being bought up are taking the spot of animals that are in need of rescuing. Since the animals in rescues are not finding homes they are being exterminated, and people will pay more and more for one of those “cute” little puppies that you see in the pet stores, rather than giving their home to animals that are in desperate need of homes.
I am not saying that these puppies do not need homes, they certainly do, but the reasons that they are being brought about are because of the demand for these puppies. It is the demand that causes these cute puppies to be bred in such horrific numbers and conditions. These puppies are crammed in over populated areas with sanitation that would cringe your stomach, and bred in such numbers that so many of them die and contract diseases that its impossible to keep track of everything. These puppies are bred into confinement with almost no human contact until they are chosen to go to pet stores across the nation.
The mothers are bred in such great quantities and such short periods between litters that the mothers are often damaged internally and are physically depleted and often die because of the extensive amounts of births she must endure. Most mothers and fathers of the cute puppies that you happen to see in the stores are never to leave the mills alive; along with many of the brother and sister puppies, any puppy with an abnormality will never see the inside of a pet store.
Puppy mills exploit the American dream of having a cute puppy, its these ideas that cause over population of dogs across the world, there are those who get a puppy and once it gets older they put it in a rescue home and get another puppy. The hard truth of the matter is the adoption centers and humane societies are over crowded, and the puppy farmers that think that they can make a quick buck by selling puppies to the pet stores. We can stop these inhumane acts towards these dogs by eliminating the demand for the pet store puppy. These puppy mills are the epitome of animal cruelty. They not allowed their basic needs any clean food or water, confinement in large number where many of them are forced to inbreed. We must protest to purchasing of puppies from puppy mills, adopt a dog in need and the demand for puppies will go down in pet stores, and maybe some day we can abolish puppy mills once and for all.
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/14486435/proposed-bill-would-regulate-puppy-mills-in-texas
http://www.puppymills.com
This is such a sad topic, and I truly do not think many people know the true extent and meanings of a puppy mill. Like stated in the video, "little bit" had 6 litters, and she is only 3 years old!!! Generally when a dog is bred, she needs a few months to recuperate, she should not be bred right after she has puppies. Not only are these puppy mills breeding dogs like crazy, they normally do not keep the dogs in good housing. In most cases, the dogs are left in a tiny cage 24/7. Incredibly sad.
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago there was a pet store near my house that closed because it was purchasing puppies from a puppy mill. I remembered going in there and seeing sad, and sometimes incredibly ill puppies sitting in the cages. Really made me want to do something about it.
As for your post, I liked the fact that you included a video. Sometimes articles are hard to become focused in on, so putting a video in definitely kept my interest.
Good work Chris. Great use of Pathos. Also, good job with format and make your text legible. Need to incorporate your text a little more- show when your source material is speaking and when you are.
ReplyDeleteGood topic. I think one of the sad elements do this horrific act is that these puppies/dogs are often inbred which can cause major medical issues down the road for the person buying the puppy. Also, the breed is being destroyed as a result- emotionally, mentally, and physically.
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