Help put an end to puppy mills

[and justice for ALL]

What is a puppy mill? Unfortunately, we hear this question all to often.

A puppy mill is a large scale breeding operation that produces large numbers of puppies for profit. LARGE profit! Most are inhumane in treatment and care, basic socialization, and living conditions. People who run these mills have no concern for genetic complications, breeding, or just basic care. Breeding dogs are usually bred until they are of no use anymore. Confined to their cages for life, not fed right, and kept in severe cold or hot conditions. They are sick ad malnourished from the continual breeding. Then they are discarded, most likely dumped or in one case burned in barrels.

Tennessee has become one of the fastest growing havens for puppy mill owners and they are expanding rapidly to every surrounding state. EVERY state in the union is becoming infected by these scum!
You may even have one in, or very near your community right now. We are starting this petition to get stronger laws and punishment for puppy millers.

Please go to this site and sign our petition. No matter where you live, you only need to have a compassion and love for our four legged friends. Lets put an end to this horrific practice and the true "Animals" who are profiting from it. Thank you for caring.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/54/stop-puppy-...

[Please Help]

and justice for ALL wrote:

What is a puppy mill? Unfortunately, we hear this question all to often.
A puppy mill is a large scale breeding operation that produces large numbers of puppies for profit. LARGE profit! Most are inhumane in treatment and care, basic socialization, and living conditions. People who run these mills have no concern for genetic complications, breeding, or just basic care. Breeding dogs are usually bred until they are of no use anymore. Confined to their cages for life, not fed right, and kept in severe cold or hot conditions. They are sick ad malnourished from the continual breeding. Then they are discarded, most likely dumped or in one case burned in barrels.
Tennessee has become one of the fastest growing havens for puppy mill owners and they are expanding rapidly to every surrounding state. EVERY state in the union is becoming infected by these scum!
You may even have one in, or very near your community right now. We are starting this petition to get stronger laws and punishment for puppy millers.
Please go to this site and sign our petition. No matter where you live, you only need to have a compassion and love for our four legged friends. Lets put an end to this horrific practice and the true "Animals" who are profiting from it. Thank you for caring.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/54/stop-puppy-...

They busted a puppy mill in Lyles,Tennessee two days ago that had 700 puppies, all malnourished and mistreated.I'm asking people to imagine themselves in these horrible conditions. If it were a child, you know what you would do. You would get involved. Please show that you have one ounce of human compassion and do something. This situation is getting overwhelming for those trying to help.Quit buying from puppy mills and when you know this abuse is going on, report thses people.1157

[concerned]

What is a Puppy Mill?

By Legal definition there is no such thing as a Puppy Mill. Why? Because there is no legal definition. So basically there is no such thing as a Puppy Mill being that the definition is left to the individual. One must ask how legislation is being made against a term with no legal definition? And also ask what types of people commit themselves to groups who are against a term with no legal definition? One also must ask the professionalism and education of those who freely use a term that has no definition. A civil rights movement was made against similar hate terms.

The Term Puppy Mill is used to bring on emotion. Animals, especially our dogs can be almost like children to us. The thought of intentionally harming a child or defenseless animal brings on a knee jerk reaction of pure hatred in most humans. Unlike other terms used to divide, hate and caused dangerous finger pointing. The Term Puppy Mill can bring on almost dangerous responses, causing regular citizens to join in a battle against something they have never seen or witnessed first hand.

Like the Term Teacup when used to describe a smaller dog. The Term Puppy Mill is a marketing Term. Non profit rescues have learned that placing the term Puppy Mill next to their inventory, will cause it to be sold very rapidly. In all Honestly if the thousands of groups wanted to end the ideal of the term Puppy Mill to the supposed 10,000 of them residing in the USA. All the groups had to do with their hundreds of millions if not billions of un-taxable donations was to use the money to educate kennels and use the money in research to bring the living conditions to that of what they deem Humane. That said they should start firstly with their own facilities.

Many kill shelters euthanize puppies and dogs for a simple common cold many times labeled a Upper respiratory infection (URI), or Kennel Cough. Instead of killing these animals for an infection that can be self eliminating a needed study could have been done to end it. As with leukemia in cats that helped discover a cure for leukemia in children. that study may have found and end to the common cold. Yet these organizations are against animal study even if it means saving animals themselves.

To say ALL pet stores buy from Puppy Mills. And that ALL licensed and inspected USDA commercial kennels are dirty Puppy Mills. Comes from a thought process that many Americans hoped would have been outgrown in today’s America. By Supporting your local Pet Store which sells Puppies and Kittens you are helping to eliminate the need for the Term Puppy Mill. But first Pet Stores need the billions of lost taxable income back into their hands so they can do the right thing . To once and for all end the 60 year battle against a term that has matured into a pure marking tool, to take jobs and taxable income away from hard working Americans.

[MissyK]

That's total BS! The USDA openly admits that their regs are lax and not enforced. No responsible breeder would sell to a petstore or use a broker. Don't support any petstore that sells puppies. Do you want a dog that lived the first part of it's life in a kennel building (aka broken down trailer or barn), then a trailer and then a cage in a petstore. There's a reason petstore puppies are notorious for having behavioral problems, housebreaking problems and health problems. Adopt from a shelter or buy from a responsible breeder who does the recommended health testing on all their breeding dogs and who raised their puppies in a loving home, not a barn! I know for a fact that at least one petstore in Ruston ships in sick puppies from AR and runs their own puppymill. They always have sick puppies in the back room and rarely do the dogs see a vet. They either get better from the OTC meds or they die. Dogs are not a commodity!

[MissyK]

The following is the "legal" definition of a puppy mill:

A “puppy mill” is “a dog breeding operation in which the health of the dogs is disregarded in order to maintain a low overhead and maximize profits.”

The court case was:

Avenson v. Zegart, 577 F. Supp. 958, 960 (D. Minn.1984).