Should Puppy Mills Be Banned

Imagine you are buying your first puppy. You have been waiting for this day for a very long time and now you finally get to have a puppy. You see a fluffy little puppy and immediately know, that this is the one you want, but this puppy’s backstory is anything but pretty because this puppy is from a puppy mill. A place where puppies are born into the worst conditions possible and suffer for most of their lives until unsuspecting owners come and buy them. “It’s estimated 4 million dogs are bred in puppy mills every year,”(hubpages.com). That means 4 million puppies suffer this kind of fate every single year. Therefore, puppy mills should be banned in the U.S. Firstly, the treatment of puppies in puppy mills is horrible. The parent dogs are only kept to breed other dogs, and the breeders never care about the

Since they live in such horrible conditions it is no surprise that it damages the puppies. Afterward, they end up having a lot of illnesses that go untreated by vets,”...a common injury found in puppy mills are overgrown toenails..Dogs that are well-cared for in shelters and homes have their nails trimmed on a regular basis, and regular exercise also wears them down. In puppy mills, long nails can grow or get get caught around the wire, trapping the dog, or they can grow painfully back into the dog’s skin..”(onegreenplanet.org). Similarly, they get affected mentally,” ..Most of them are bred far too early, before it is safe. Not only is this stressful on their bodies, but it also causes immense emotional stress. Consequently,though the mothers do get to nurse their babies, the weaning process is generally forced too soon, causing “emotional trauma to both the mother dog and the puppies as well as health problems in the puppies..this trauma can cause a whole host of behavioral issues from shyness, aggression, fear, and