Banning Puppy Mills
Banning Puppy Mills
How would you like to spend your whole life in a cage with no room to move, where you are unloved, abused, and starving because nobody cares enough to feed you? You probably wouldn’t like that very much. Well these are the conditions of the thousands of dogs found in puppy mills across the country. These dogs can’t stand up and fight for their lives, but we can. We have an obligation as responsible citizens to work together to successfully ban puppy mills.
Although puppy mills are widely known for their poor treatment of animals, they are still legal in the United States. We live in a capitalist society where every business has the right to prosper, so it’s easy to see why some people would be against the illegalization of puppy mills, as that would infringe upon business owners’ rights. However, just as there are laws in place to prevent the cruel treatment of people and animals, there should be laws in place to prevent the wrongful breeding of dogs in dangerous conditions. All 50 states have anti-cruelty laws to prevent neglect and mistreatment of animals, but these laws exclude rural areas, where most puppy mills are found – and they’re found mostly here at home, in the Midwest.
Puppy mills are large commercial dog breeding operations where the profits from the sale of dogs are more important than the health and well-being of these animals. The living conditions in puppy mills are heartbreaking. The cages are so confining that the dogs cannot even turn around inside of them. Most of the dogs are forced to stay in a cage for their whole lives, never even stepping foot on solid ground. When this happens, these dogs are never able to walk, as witnessed by people who attempt to rescue these animals. The metal wire in the cages can be so badly rusted and broken that the dogs’ paws and legs can get cut open by the wires, and get infected, at which point the leg is vulnerable to being ripped off by another dog. The owners hardly, if ever,
How would you like to spend your whole life in a cage with no room to move, where you are unloved, abused, and starving because nobody cares enough to feed you? You probably wouldn’t like that very much. Well these are the conditions of the thousands of dogs found in puppy mills across the country. These dogs can’t stand up and fight for their lives, but we can. We have an obligation as responsible citizens to work together to successfully ban puppy mills.
Although puppy mills are widely known for their poor treatment of animals, they are still legal in the United States. We live in a capitalist society where every business has the right to prosper, so it’s easy to see why some people would be against the illegalization of puppy mills, as that would infringe upon business owners’ rights. However, just as there are laws in place to prevent the cruel treatment of people and animals, there should be laws in place to prevent the wrongful breeding of dogs in dangerous conditions. All 50 states have anti-cruelty laws to prevent neglect and mistreatment of animals, but these laws exclude rural areas, where most puppy mills are found – and they’re found mostly here at home, in the Midwest.
Puppy mills are large commercial dog breeding operations where the profits from the sale of dogs are more important than the health and well-being of these animals. The living conditions in puppy mills are heartbreaking. The cages are so confining that the dogs cannot even turn around inside of them. Most of the dogs are forced to stay in a cage for their whole lives, never even stepping foot on solid ground. When this happens, these dogs are never able to walk, as witnessed by people who attempt to rescue these animals. The metal wire in the cages can be so badly rusted and broken that the dogs’ paws and legs can get cut open by the wires, and get infected, at which point the leg is vulnerable to being ripped off by another dog. The owners hardly, if ever,