Rachel Lindholm is making a big difference in the fight against puppy mills. Rachel got her dog from a puppy mill. Her dog ended up having many difficult health problems. After finding this out she did some research on puppy mills and she was not happy with what she found out. She immediately wanted to help stop them. With some help from ther teacher she got a puppy mill ban put on the city of Chicago and now wants to go statewide. “Animal shelters are crawling with thousands of lovable animals. People shouldn't be buying from places that hurt the animals” Rachel states. Rachel Lindholm, who is only a teenager, has helped more than some people will in there whole…
The “Puppy Mill Pet Shop Life Cycle” shows how puppies enter the puppy mill cycle. This cycle usually begins with an owner wanting the puppy, becoming frustrated with the puppy’s health and vet bills, leading to the shelters becoming crowded with abandoned puppies, the mothers and pups are living in unsanitary cages. The puppies are then packed into crates and sold, these crates transport the puppies to their destination. After reaching the destination the puppies are put in pet shops to be resold, which restarts the puppy mill cycle.…
A typical puppy mill, to save money, is underemployed with a maximum of 3 to 5 employees taking care of the potential 1,000+ puppies. As a result, there is little to no human interaction, which leads the puppies to possibly having poor social habits and showing fearful behavior.6 The puppies are usually taken away from their mother and their littermates and sold off as early as just 4-6 weeks old.5 This is illegal, as the Animal Welfare Act states “No dog dealer… shall separate a puppy ... from its mother, for the purpose of sale, until such puppy … has attained the age of 8 weeks.”7 This statement is a law for a reason: according to the Humane Society of the United States, an animal rights not-for-profit organization, puppies should be with their littermates for 8-12 weeks and weaning from the mother should gradually be stopped by 8 weeks of age.8 This is because during those 8-12 weeks with his or her littermates, the puppy learns social skills such as how to send and receive signals, how physically far to go in play-wrestling, what an “inhibited bite” means, and in general learning how to be a dog when surrounded by his or her littermates.6 Also, it is important for the mother to be with the puppy for the 8 weeks as the mother models the affection and warmth which the puppy senses, and the puppy can pick up this cue and display this affection on his or her own.6 Therefore, it is important for the…
"Puppy Mills." ASPCA. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, n.d. Web. 20 Sept. 2012. .…
Have you ever been to the mall and seen those adorable puppies through the pet store window? How their shining eyes and small noses makes your heart melt? Their small eyes hold horror stories of how they got there in the first place. ‘’Puppy mills are an establishment that breed puppies for sale, typically on an intensive basis and in conditions regarded as inhumane’’(Robinson, B. 2007 February 21). Yes it is true dogs are being taken advantage of and there are no exceptions. The only good thing about it is that you have bragging rights and you don't get a ''mixed mutt''. There’s a certain classiness that comes with having a purebred. Puppy mills are wrong and should be banned.…
Puppy mills should be banned because of horrible living conditions. According to ‘lcanimal.org’ “Usually these animals stay outside year round in the freezing and hot weather”. Dogs in puppy mills sometimes get´s hypothermia and hyperthermia. Which means they usually suffer and die from extreme heat and cold summers and winters. These dog’s get little or no veterinary care and get dangerous infections. Dogs in puppy mills have a higher chance to get a extreme disease when there surrounded by many dogs. Therefore, puppy mills have horrible living conditions and…
Not too far from a house, a barn sits off in the distance. Inside the barn, it is crowded with cages. Row after row, stacked on top of each other, are cages with dogs inside of them. Dogs crying for attention or crying out in pain. Inside that barn, there are tens of hundreds of dogs being bred and born consecutively. This is what a puppy mill looks like. Puppy mills are large-scale commercial dog breeding operations where profit is placed above the well-being of animals. To help put this cruel treatment of animals to an end, we need to look at the causes and effects of puppy mills, and what you can do as an individual.…
3,000 puppy mills. Thousands of dogs per mill. What’s the reason for all those puppies? Why do we need millions of sick, abused puppies. The answer is, we don’t. Puppy mills are commercial facilities that breed dogs and care more about their profits than the health of their animals. Puppies in the mills are treated cruelly, not getting the love or care that all animals deserve. The puppies get sold to pet stores, where people buy them, unaware that they will end up with a sick dog who’s afraid of people. States do have laws against animal cruelty, but they aren’t strong enough, and puppy mill owners get away with it. Puppy mills should be illegal in every state because the dogs are treated horribly, people end up buying diseased dogs,and the laws against puppy mills aren’t strict enough.…
Puppy Mills are a large dog breeding facility where profit is cared more about than the puppy’s health. Puppy Mills are horrific, and they sell the dogs to unsuspecting families; the facility only cares about increasing their profit, and not about the dog’s health. According to “DoSomething.org,” after female breeding dogs can no longer reproduce, they are often killed. Plus, breeding dogs in Puppy Mills have no real quality of life, often only living in small wire cages with no attention, exercise, or veterinary care. This proves that the Puppy…
A puppy mill is a commercial dog breeding facility that focus on increasing profit with little overhead cost. Puppy mills will breed a female dog every time she is in heat. For example, a 5 years old dog could have given birth to 10 litters of puppies. In puppy mills, animals spend most of their lives in cramped cages, with no room to play or exercise. Often times, the water and food provided for the puppies are contaminated, crawling with bugs. Puppies can even be malnourished. Also, puppies in mills are found with bleeding or swollen paws, feet falling through the wire cages, severe tooth decay, ear infections, dehydration, and lesions on their eyes, which often lead to blindness. Almost all pet store animals come from puppy mills. At time of purchase, consumers are given incorrect line age about the dog’s health and breeder.…
Some people will disagree and say that puppy mills are a good thing Because they're are more dogs being bred.But I can not help but disagree with them.Female and male dogs should not be put through the conditions that they are in they are not getting the proper nutrition at the proper care as a dog.Not only that some dogs that are bred are tortured because they born with a deformity.An indented face a missing paw,leg,anything.These dogs get put through this torture because they were born into it or bought.It’s time to put a stop to puppy mills.…
Imagine being cooped up in a small, dank cage without any interaction with the outside world. Not to mention without proper nutritional food, water, vet care, or even being able to socialize with other pups. This is what millions of dogs’ face each and every day of their life. The controversial issue of puppy mills has been going on far too long, while thousands of innocent dogs are being euthanized daily in shelters. Puppy mills are abusive and inhumane places that should be shut down and illegal nationwide.…
Would you enact a ban on cars because someone was killed in an auto accident? Well this is precisely the type of logic which has been used to come up with breed specific legislation banning pit-bulls calling them a dangerous breed of dog. These animals are not to blame for the way in which they are bred, raised and trained any more than an automobile is responsible for the way it is designed, manufactured and driven. We should not allow legislation to pass which outlaws an entire breed of dog due to the actions of a few individual dog owners.…
Do you want to see animals abused and killed sometimes for nothing? Animal testing is flawed and can produce very unreliable results. Around 26 million animals are used every year for scientific and commercial testing. These animals are used to determine the toxicity and effectiveness of medications before they test it on humans. Therefore animal testing should be banned.…
In this essay I will be talking about why Animal Farm is banned. The book Animal Farm is banned in a few countries. Why is it banned, most countries that banned Animal Farm are communist. Animal Farm was banned in over 126 countries but that count lowered to 39 countries in 2000. The countries banned it so there people would not see the faults in communism and revolt against their leader. This book shows how the pigs/people revolted against their farmer/leader of the farm/country.…