Unstable Concoction

You walk into a pet shop.
You notice that cute little puppy with eyes that can barely open and looking at you innocently.
You fall in love with it.
You beg your parents.
You buy the new puppy and be all happy with it.

You might even scream and be all excited and start messaging your friends telling them you got a new dog.

But.
Do you know that there might be a possibility that the puppy you just bought,
is from a puppy mill?

If you're not aware of what a puppy mill is..

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Puppy mills, sometimes known as puppy farms^[1], are large-scale dog breeding facilities that operate under substandard breeding conditions,^[2][3] causing the development of chronic health problems, temperament issues, and hereditary defects in puppies that come from the mills.^[2]

The term can be applied to operations involving other animals irresponsibly bred for profit, e.g. "kitty mills."^[4] Animals that have been produced in mills are most commonly sold at pet stores to unsuspecting consumers. ^[5]

Irresponsible breeding on a smaller scale is referred to as backyard breeding.^[4]

Now, do you know what a puppy mill is?


Do you see how terrible the condition of the kennel is?
Now, imagine fitting 100 dogs in it, with barely enough space for them to move around, stepping on chicken wire, trying to get out and stressed because they have never got the chance of walking on proper grounds or a field?

Some of the dogs were rescued. But their condition was so terrible that the dogs are not even able to walk to the van where they will be sent to a shelter themselves properly and some even have to be carried?

Even if they were able to get out, they will be stuck in a compound, with poorly built dog house, all muddy and not sheltered even when it rains heavily.

Imagine their paws bleeding from jumping and struggling around in a poorly built cage with nothing but chicken wire and scrap metal.
With chains around their neck, cutting through their skin and risk getting infected with the cuts and infections that aren't treated.

Imagine not being named, never been given a pat or a hug, never showered, and being stuck in a cage where you can barely stand or a cage that's filled with so many other dogs, that there's no space to move at all.These dogs receive little or no veterinary care and never see a bed, a treat or a toy. After their fertility wanes, breeding animals are commonly killed, abandoned or sold to another mill. The annual result of all this breeding is hundreds of thousands of puppies, many with behavior and/or health problems.

What's worse, the female dogs are forced to breed as many times as possible, sometimes up to 3 litters a year.
And what's worse? from the profits that they've gained so much from the female dogs, they don't even proper care and attention that they deserve.
Instead, they are forced to reproduce right after they give birth to a new litter.
And when they can no longer reproduce or sick, they are shot. Dead.

and these photos of the conditions of the dogs aren't even close to what they've shown in videos that are secretly captured in a puppy mill.
Bad dental, infections, you name it, they've got it.

And to think there will be laws to this inhuman act, there's actually none.

Because a puppy mill is a business, the facility is designed purely for profit, not for the well-being of dogs. Laws are on the books to provide minimum-care standards for puppy-mill animals, but enforcement has historically been spotty at best. The U.S. Department of Agriculture licenses and inspects "commercial breeding facilities for violations of the Animal Welfare Act; likewise, a handful of states have laws that provide oversight of some breeding operations as well. But puppy mills can successfully navigate around these laws, either by selling directly to consumers (thereby avoiding USDA licensing requirements) or by simply avoiding the reach of law enforcement (with so few USDA inspectors and minor fines, it's easy to stay in business)

So the only thing we can do to stop it is to stop buying puppies from these horrible puppy mills.
Always bear in mind to check the origins of the puppies you're about to buy, or better yet,
ADOPT.

You have no idea how many animals, (dogs and cats) are being killed a day because the animal shelters no longer have enough space to occupy all of them.