Argumentative Essay On Puppy Mill

The last one is the puppy mill initiative in which there is an effort to end commercial dog breeding and irresponsible breeding and push towards adopting rather than buying. Life in a puppy mill is no life when the cages are small and barely meet the minimum legal size, which is six inches on all sides of the animal, and the females are bred as often as they can be. “Even though more and more Americans are taking a stand against them, the U.S. still has about 10,000 puppy mills” (Best Friends). Breeders are regulated by the federal government, but only with minimal standards, which does not ensure a healthy animal. The initiative is to convince pet stores to offer adoption over mill pets and to educate customers about mills. Dog selling websites

Many of these unwanted pets come from puppy mills. There are more puppy mills than purebred breeders in the country. One of the Best Friends founders, Michael Mountain said that, ‘Less 'pure bred' than inbred, these dogs often have health issues that only surface later on in life, and which often lead to their being abandoned at shelters’ (Sturtevant). These inbred animals many seem fine as puppies but once they have grown up these problems start showing and are causing issues that most people do not know how to handle or cannot afford to treat. People do not want to take care of these problemed animals and then abandon them. Puppy mills are inbred dogs because all they care about is money, so the more dogs they bred and have born the more they can sell them and the more money they make. Best Friends website states there are roughly “two million homeless dogs and cats are killed annually in America’s shelter. That means that nearly 5,500 animals are killed every day” (Best Friends). If we would outlaw inbreeding in puppy factories and stop buying them the population would decrease dramatically. We have so many dogs and cats in shelters that need adopting too. Pet stores mainly have dogs from puppy factories but most Americans are not aware of this. People need to know where the animals they are buying are coming from and to know that takes research. That is a great way to keep pets that are loved