Puppy Mills. It's sick! DO SOMETHING!!

Okay first off, the last picture. The one with the brown toy poodle in the clothes basket? That's my dog. We bought him from a pet store, unknowing that he came from a puppy mill. He was so sick when we got him. Thankfully, not as sick as I'm sure half the dogs in this video were but he was still in pretty bad condition. Now, he's 3 years old and healthy.

Here's 11 things about Puppy Mills you may not know:

1. Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and often unsanitary conditions, without adequate health care, food, water or human company.

2. The breeding dogs are bred as often as possible to increase profits and probably will never see life outside of the puppy mill. The owners rarely pay attention to the health or happiness of the dogs.

3. Puppy mills often generate health problems for the dogs they are selling. The puppies may have immediate health problems such as respiratory infections or pneumonia and some even have genetic diseases that show up years later.

4. Breeding dogs suffer continuously, imprisoned in small cramped cages, often soiled with their own excrement, breeding litter after litter till they can no longer reproduce.

5. No states have laws against a breeding kennel legally keeping dozens of dogs in cages for their entire lives, if food, water, and shelter are provided.
6. Thousands of puppy mills aren't even regulated or inspected by the USDA, since many of them sell directly to the public.

7. The average puppy mill has between 65 and 75 animals housed in hutch-style cages with wire floors. The waste drops to the ground below and accumulates beneath the cage where flies and other gross things fester.

8. Dogs at puppy mills are often not actually purebred, and the breeders sometimes lie about lineage records.

9. Dogs housed in indoor facilities deal with equally terrible conditions, with ammonia vapors and odors permeating badly aired buildings.

10. Solid surfaces aim to protect the legs of puppies, but as they mature and scout out their surroundings, feet and legs often fall through wire floors designed to allow excrement to fall through. The resulting injuries compound their misery.

11. Unlicensed puppy mills often sell puppies at six weeks of age even though federal laws prohibit licensed mills from selling puppies under eight weeks of age.

All information found on www. dosomething.org.
Like I said in the video, please go there! Even if you just read the information, it's still knowledge of what's going on.

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• lolgurl7

[lolgurl7]

Yes it is.

Thank you for the comment

[carebearlol909]

:'( So sad. My dog was from the human society. Hew was a stray. He waz missing a bit of fur. U could see his ribs. They contacted the owners but they didnt want him bak. He was timid when we got him now hes a energetic furball.

[lolgurl7]

that's so sad, also

sorry 2 hear

& thnx so is ur dog

thanks for watching :)

[wolfmanrick]

see people like this should have to live in a cage for a week.nasty bastards

[gts3x]

This is so sad and should be illegal.

[PkHippy]

my dad bought a new house because of his buisness and its really big and i wanna just 1 welsh corgi but i saw this video and 2 other ones so i adopted 7 dogs from a shelter and there all healthy =)

[TashaRichardsonFan]

People who run puppy miles are sick!

[krollman1]

This is why you should never meet anyone for a puppy or a kitten. Never meet anyone all ways go too there home too see the parents first then the babies. Never buy at a pet shop never! This would stop if we just do the these few things. They are met too be loved first. So very sad it just hurts! Betty

[EddieAlda]

I cant stand those people who walk around with their designer dogs thinking they have the best dogs. These people could care less that the parents of their precious dog is being abused on a puppy farm. It's disgraceful. Stop designer dogs. Jusdt adopt a dog from a shelter. It is the personality inside of the dog, not what it looks like.

[TheLifeSource]

tnx for the vid i am crying right now because it is so sad god bless and i pray to all those abused dogs... DX

[TashaRichardsonFan]

This is so sad:(