Should Puppy Mills Be Banned?

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You get a puppy after all the begging, finally, your parents cave. What if instead of seeing the puppies happy in a playpen running and jumping without a care in the world, you saw them from where they came. The cold, hard, truth is that most companies will get their puppies from licensed or unlicensed puppy mills. A puppy mill is a large breeding facility that uses females to produce new puppies every heat cycle, until they can no longer be produced. The puppy mills often inhumanely kill the mothers when they can no longer produce dogs. Breeders take the puppies away from their only comfort, their mother, to put them in a cage with often no solid surface. If ever wondering about getting a dog, it would be very beneficial to know how to …show more content…

¨Because puppy mill operators often fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools, puppies from puppy mills are prone to congenital and hereditary conditions”. Correspondingly, ¨ Hundreds, sometimes thousands of dogs per facility live in overcrowded and unsanitary cages without sufficient food, water, grooming, socialization, or veterinary care and therefore they frequently suffer a multitude of social, emotional, and physical conditions, including genetic disorders and deformities”. Comparably, ¨puppy mill puppies often arrive in pet stores and in their new homes with diseases or infirmities ranging from parasites to pneumonia,”. In Summary, Puppy mills should be banned because they overlook genetic …show more content…

“Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without adequate veterinary care, food, water and socialization”. in similarity, “Dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs—and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns”. “Breeding dogs at mills might spend their entire lives outdoors, exposed to the elements, or crammed inside filthy structures where they never get the chance to feel the sun or breathe fresh air”. Closely related, “Breeding dogs at mills might spend their entire lives outdoors, exposed to the elements, or crammed inside filthy structures where they never get the chance to feel the sun or breathe fresh air”. To conclude my thoughts, Puppy mills should be banned because they put profit above the dog's needs, overlook genetic problems, and don’t care about the dogs

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