So you want to adopt a puppy? Well there are two main places that your puppy could have been born. First, your puppy could have been born at a puppy mill. This is an inhumane, mass breeding location that can be very detrimental to your new pet. Another location that your puppy could have been born at is a breeder. This is a more humane location for your puppy to have been born. When adopting a puppy you should avoid going to a pet store because most pet stores receive their puppies from puppy mills; inhumane and overpopulated puppy breeding places. The term puppy mill is used quite frequently when discussing animal cruelty. This term does not have a specific dictionary definition. A puppy mill is essentially a large-scale puppy breeding location that is not under a lot of laws that protect the newborns or their mothers. It is important to know that another term for a puppy mill is a puppy farm. They are generally called puppy mills and not always referred to as puppy farms. Not all puppies that come from mills have problems. Since mills are most common, it is important for you to know what may have happened to your puppy in the event that they were born in a mill. Some common things that need attention when it comes to puppy mills include inhumanity, mass breeding, illnesses, and developmental issues. Each of these things affects puppies in a different way. First, puppy mills are inhumane. According to the video “Puppies Are Not Toys,” puppy mill dogs are like plush dog toys. They are “manufactured with others” meaning that they are basically mass-produced like the plush toys and when they receive no attention they become like the toy that nobody wanted to buy (ASPCA). They have horrible conditions. George Cima discusses in his... ... middle of paper ... ... Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Print. Peters, Sharon and TODAY Special for USA. "Puppy mills leave lasting emotional scars, study finds." usatoday.com. USA Today, 11 Oct. 2011: Academic Search Premier. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. Sacks, Pamela. "Puppy Mills: Misery FOR Sale." Animals 133.5 (2000): 10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. Sweeney, Michael S. Dog Tips from Dogtown: A Relationship Manual for You and Your Dog. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2010. Print. United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Agriculture. “Puppy Protection Act.” Thomas Library of Congress. Government Publication Office. 11 Oct. 2001. Web. 14 Nov. 2013. United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Agriculture. “Puppy Uniform Protection and Safety Act.” Thomas Library of Congress. Government Publication Office. 27 Feb. 2013. Web. 14 Nov. 2013
Alastair Norcross in his article “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases “expresses the moral dilemma based on factory farming. Norcross gives an example of a man named Fred. Fred has to torture puppies in order to be able to enjoy chocolate. This is because when puppies are brutally tortured and then brutally killed they release a chemical called cocoamone. This chemical enhances the taste of chocolate, so Fred is killing puppies for gustatory pleasure. Any morally sound person would be appalled at what Frank is doing to these puppies and that is the basis of Norcross’s article. He is arguing that raising animals on factory farms and what Fred is doing are both morally wrong, because in both cases we are brutally killing the
What is a Puppy Mill, How are animals being at Puppy Mills. Animals are being severely neglected by the owners. Responsible breeding practices end up killing. Animals get abused and usually are left to die with no food, water or even locked in a cage. Puppy mills are operating all over the U.S. After breeding for amount of times and don’t get time to recover and cant reproduce anymore are often killed off. Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without care, food, water and socialization. Puppy mill dogs do not get to experience treats, toys, exercise or basic grooming. To minimize waste cleanup, 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 structure where they never get the chance to feel the sun or breathe fresh air. Puppy Mills should be outlawed because some animals are being severely neglected and owners act out without regard to respons...
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A puppy mill is a place where people force dogs to reproduce in order to sell the pups to stores, people or anyone else who is willing to buy them so they can make money. Thousands of dogs are made each year by these mills, and because they make more dogs then they can sell an overpopulation of dogs begins to occur. A serious of conflict occurs from puppy mills. Since animals from stores are from breeding mills that means the mills are being supported to stay in business from anyone who buys a puppy from stores. Also since more people are buying from stores, less people are buying animals from a shelter therefore those animals have a higher chance of dying. Puppy mills also do not take care of the dogs whom are in their care. Some of the animals are abused very badly by these places. Female dogs are forced to reproduce every chance they can, and when they get to the point where they are physically no longer able to do so they get killed. There food is contaminated with algae or other bacteria that grows. (DoSomething.org) Also the living conditions they have the
With the holidays approaching, many young couples look into getting their better half a puppy for Christmas. But what they do not know is that puppy could have been bred in one of the most inhumane ways. Puppy mills are all over the United States, and the government has turned their cheeks to the horrors behind those barn doors.
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Puppy mills began after World War II when farmers were desperate to find ways to make money, after the widespread farm failures (AmeriDogs NP). Farmers began their mills with low income and already run down living conditions. The dogs were housed in chicken coops and rabbit pens, where they were denied veterinary care and socialization to humans or other animals (NP). The Farmers weren't educated on how to properly take care of the dogs they were housing leaving the animals sick, emaciated, and very unhealthy. Eventually the animal welfare act passed in 1966 which outlines specific minimum standards of care for dogs, cats and some other kinds of animals bred for commercial resale (Stop NP). After this, animal rights organizations were able to shut down some of the puppy mills that were in bad conditions, but shutting down all puppy mills throughout the U.S. would be an impossible task. Now there are many organizations dedicated to shut down as many puppy mills as possible.
Having one viewpoint on the matter will get me nowhere because not everyone thinks the way I do. By being able to get into the mindset of others and their cultures and make it to where they understand what I am trying to say, is key to the success of my project. Having an ethnocentric viewpoint is just setting yourself up for failure. If I were to just plainly say why I oppose puppy mills and hate anyone who has ever worked for one or bought a puppy from one is not the way to go. I understand that people unknowingly support puppy mills and although it doesn’t define them as being a bad person it would help in the future for them to be informed. I also understand that some people who work for puppy mills are just trying to support their families and probably equate the work to being like a farmer who raises cows. I want to try an inform everyone and in order to do this I can’t be hostile or ethnocentric. I need to be understanding and use cultural relativism to place myself in other people’s shoes so to speak. That’s why using a cultural anthropology approach to my project is essential to my project both locally and globally because everyone thinks differently and if I want everyone to help I cannot present only one way of
"Puppy Mills: Dogs Abused for the Pet Trade." PETA. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. .
Many people don't know what factory farms are. However factory farms are a huge industry that raises a large amount of animals for food. About a half of farming animals in the United States are raised in factory farms (“Farm Animal Cruelty” 1).
Propositional Statement: Puppy mills are inhumane because they produce puppies that have health defects that could possibly lead to their pain and suffering as well as death. It is very important that the public be educated on the harm that puppy mills have on animals. There should also be more rules...
Dogs are pretty close to a human, wouldn't you agree? Both human and dogs are mammals so wouldn't they be close? If you agreed then why are we treating the so poorly? Animal Rights aren't as talked about as much as they should be. There are many things that are happening to our animals and people believe that it should talked about, but it not always is. One of the thing that needs to be talked is Puppy Mills.
The animals that are raised in factory farms, and the farms are ran just like any other business. According to the article Factory Framing, Misery of Animals, the factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing cost, always at the animal’s expense. “The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection” (Factory Farming). This is actually quit disgusting that we eat food that walks around in each other’s feces and can attract disease. These animals live a life of abuse, but we sit back and say it’s okay because we will eventually eat them. “Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Research shows that factory farms widespread use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threatens human health” (Factory Farming). These animals aren’t treated with proper care and we act as if they are machines. Chickens for example, become so big and distorted that their legs can longer support them. Eventually they die because they can longer walk to get food or water. According to Factory Farming, most of these animals have been genetically manipulated to grow larger and to produce more eggs and milk than they naturally
Factory farms have portrayed cruelty to animals in a way that is horrific; unfortunately the public often does not see what really goes on inside these “farms.” In order to understand the conditions present in these factory farms, it must first be examined what the animals in these factory farms are eating. Some of the ingredients commonly used in feeding the animals inside factory farms include the following: animal byproducts, plastic, drugs and chemicals, excessive grains, and meat from members of the same species. (Adams, 2007) These animals are tortured and used for purely slaughter in order to be fed on. Typically large numbers of animals are kept in closed and tight confinements, having only little room to move around, if even that. These confinements can lead to suffocation and death and is not rare. Evidence fr...
Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without food, water and proper health care.