You hear it all the time - even OPRAH's saying it - NO PUPPY MILLS NO PUPPY MILLS NO PUPPY MILLS NO PUPPY MILLS!! But does it actually MEAN anything to you? Do you know what a puppy mill IS? If so, do you know how puppy mills make their money? I'll tell you this - it's not from having families come to their properties and buying their pups on site! Ever seen puppies and kittens at flea markets? In pet stores? Ads in the paper and on popular internet trading sites (ebay, craigslist, kijiji...)? Chances are, if you have, the faces behind those ads were puppymillmasters and backyard breeders. These are people or associations with NO business producing more animals when so many are wasting away...
Monday, December 7, 2009
The next few posts.
| | 0 commentsThis post is about the next few posts. It's pretty much only so that I can remember what I want to post about as I get off topic and go totally off course in my head. So, I would LIKE to make the next few posts about: 1) buying puppies and kittens from pet stores and "breeders" vs breeders. Subjects include, obviously, "breeders" vs breeders; the things pet store employees don't tell you (and the things they really don't know, ie: a BREEDER will NOT sell a puppy or kitten to a pet store whereas a "breeder" will sell to anything or anyone); puppy mills; "new breeds" vs real breeds (ie: anything ending in "doodle" and other "new"[read: fake] suffixes)2) feeding your pets properly and for optimum...
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