Personal Narrative: End The Breeding Of Dogs For Profit
End the Breeding of Dogs for Profit I have fostered many dogs, most have come from malicious breeders who were emptying cages to start new. The horrifying conditions these dogs were subject too are unacceptable. Breeders are people who keep animals in cages for most of their life to repopulate and breed certain species of dogs that are considered “superior” or “unattainably cute”. But the conditions many dogs are forced to live in are not worth the few adorable puppies that are adopted. This is why people need to rescue dogs from shelters, compared to buying them from breeders and puppy mills. I have first hand seen what the mistreatment from breeders can do to an animal. One incident is when we went to go pick up nine dogs that a breeder
was throwing out. She was a usual to the foster organization and cleaned out all of her dogs often, luckily for us she gave them to a rescue shelter. However, as she handed us each dog we could tell she was naming them on the spot. For example, one dog with a cherry eye was cruelly named, Cherry. The car ride home had a vile stench of their fecal matter. They had their own feces smashed in their fur that took hours to bath out. Some were still so sweet and loving--we couldn’t understand how the breeders could do such a thing.
In addition, the overpopulation of dogs is difficult enough without mindless breeders contributing. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, approximately 3.9 million dogs are put into shelters across America each year. 1.2 million of those dogs, are euthanized.Only about 35% of dogs are being adopted a year, and it’s time to change the statistics.
Some argue that there is a breeder every now and then has proper ethics and takes good care of the dogs they have in store, this is true. But how are families who are looking to adopt able to know if a breeder is ethical. Often breeders are able to present the puppy looking fit and well taken care of, not showing the behind the scenes. People can be financially supporting the abuse and neglect of animals without being aware. Puppy mills and inhuman breeders are shameful and should be shut down immediately. However, this cannot happen unless people chose to rescue dog's and put the monsters out of business.
This does not mean that people shouldn’t adopt dogs all together. A better alternative would be to rescue a foster dog or a dog from a shelter. This promotes a healthy and stable oasis for homeless dogs to stay. These dogs are also adopted with updated shots, sometimes they’re even potty trained, and better behaved. My dog that was born in a puppy mill has been trying to overcome her social anxiety since we got her at four months, six years ago. It took only four months for the breeder to mistreat her and cause her a lifetime of fear. Shelters and foster parents work hard to insure their dogs are both mentally and physically healthy which makes a huge impact on their behavior and entire life.
Uneducated breeders can even disable a dog for life. We had a foster dog that was breed with two dapple dachshunds, which are spotted wiener dogs. And when two are bred together the offspring usually has handicaps. Our foster dog, Pepper was blind and deaf because of the ignorance the breeder had. Pepper was cute and playful, like any other puppy. But has to live a lifetime with these disabilities because of a malignant breeder.
I have rescued all my dogs and fostered many more and I strongly encourage others to do the same. End the cruelty millions of dogs live in by putting breeders out of business. Nothing compares to the fulfillment of rescuing and you’ll never be able to imagine your life without them.
was throwing out. She was a usual to the foster organization and cleaned out all of her dogs often, luckily for us she gave them to a rescue shelter. However, as she handed us each dog we could tell she was naming them on the spot. For example, one dog with a cherry eye was cruelly named, Cherry. The car ride home had a vile stench of their fecal matter. They had their own feces smashed in their fur that took hours to bath out. Some were still so sweet and loving--we couldn’t understand how the breeders could do such a thing.
In addition, the overpopulation of dogs is difficult enough without mindless breeders contributing. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, approximately 3.9 million dogs are put into shelters across America each year. 1.2 million of those dogs, are euthanized.Only about 35% of dogs are being adopted a year, and it’s time to change the statistics.
Some argue that there is a breeder every now and then has proper ethics and takes good care of the dogs they have in store, this is true. But how are families who are looking to adopt able to know if a breeder is ethical. Often breeders are able to present the puppy looking fit and well taken care of, not showing the behind the scenes. People can be financially supporting the abuse and neglect of animals without being aware. Puppy mills and inhuman breeders are shameful and should be shut down immediately. However, this cannot happen unless people chose to rescue dog's and put the monsters out of business.
This does not mean that people shouldn’t adopt dogs all together. A better alternative would be to rescue a foster dog or a dog from a shelter. This promotes a healthy and stable oasis for homeless dogs to stay. These dogs are also adopted with updated shots, sometimes they’re even potty trained, and better behaved. My dog that was born in a puppy mill has been trying to overcome her social anxiety since we got her at four months, six years ago. It took only four months for the breeder to mistreat her and cause her a lifetime of fear. Shelters and foster parents work hard to insure their dogs are both mentally and physically healthy which makes a huge impact on their behavior and entire life.
Uneducated breeders can even disable a dog for life. We had a foster dog that was breed with two dapple dachshunds, which are spotted wiener dogs. And when two are bred together the offspring usually has handicaps. Our foster dog, Pepper was blind and deaf because of the ignorance the breeder had. Pepper was cute and playful, like any other puppy. But has to live a lifetime with these disabilities because of a malignant breeder.
I have rescued all my dogs and fostered many more and I strongly encourage others to do the same. End the cruelty millions of dogs live in by putting breeders out of business. Nothing compares to the fulfillment of rescuing and you’ll never be able to imagine your life without them.