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Tabitha Pollack
Aughenbaugh
English 12
15 April 2016
Put an End to Puppy Mills
In Tampa, eleven dogs was recently rescued from a puppy mill (Puppy Mills Dogs
Treated in Tampa). This is including a nursing mother with three five week old puppies (Puppy
Mills Dogs Treated in Tampa). There was more than 100 dogs at this puppy mills that needs
rescued (Puppy Mills Dogs Treated in Tampa). The dogs were brought to a local shelter
(Puppy Mills Dogs Treated in Tampa). In the United States, million of homeless dogs are
house in a shelter are euthanized each year (Dudley 29). Each year there is 1.2 million dogs
being killed (About Puppy Mills). The reason for this is because they do not have a home
because overpopulation. A puppy mills is a commercial dog-breeding facility that focus on profit
than the health for the puppy or dog (Puppy Mills). There is not legal definition but this is how
they described a puppy mill (Puppy Mills). There are about 10,000 puppy mills in the United
States (Puppy Mills). There could be more because a lot are kept in secret (Puppy Mills,
PETA.org). Most of them are located in the Midwest (A Closer Look at Puppy Mills). Some
mills are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio and upstate New York (A Closer Look at Puppy Mills).
Most puppy mills are licensed and unlicensed (A Closer Look at Puppy Mills). Puppy mills
became a big thing after World War (Remitz). Pet stores found more people would come to their
store if they had puppies in front window of the store (Remitz). Pet store became in demand for
puppies to put in the windows (Remitz). This was an opportunity for the farmers to make money
in the face of widespread failures (Remitz). The farmers would called the puppies cash crops

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(Remitz). Puppy mills need to start caring about the dogs health than the profit they make off the
dog or puppy.
Puppy mills need to be safer for the dogs and puppies. The dogs and puppies live in
unsanitary conditions (Puppy Mills). No one cleans up their waste so they lay in their filth
(About Puppy Mills). Most puppy mills are housed their dogs in small wire cages without
bedding (Puppy Mills, PETA.org). Since the cages are made out of wire the dogs cut their
paws off the wire floors and they do not get veterinary help. Other puppy mills house their dogs
small wooden cages or chain them to trees for long period of time (Puppy Mills, PETA.org).
Dogs are sometimes house with other dogs in tiny wire cages with little to no room to move.
Then the cages are stacked on top of each other so the dogs basically go to the bathroom on top
of each other (Puppy Mills). The dogs are not protected against the cold or heat (Puppy
Mills, PETA.org). So some freeze to death or have heat strokes.
In one puppy mill they can house up to 100 to 1000s of dogs and puppies (About Puppy
Mills). Since there are a lot of dogs most of them do not get fed well or watered. The dogs get
not socialization with other dogs or people (Puppy Mills). Since they get no socialization with
dogs or people they are sometimes aggressive with other animals and people. Dogs do not
experience treats, toys, exercise or basic grooming (A Closer Look at Puppy Mill).
The people who work at puppy mills do not care about the dogs health so the dogs do
not get veterinary care. Many of the dogs end up with diseases. They get diseases because they
are not get veterinary care or the care that they need (Puppy Mills). Some of the disease dogs
get is epilepsy, heart disease, kidney disease, deafness, eye problems, respiratory disorder,
musculoskeletal disorder, endocrine disorder and blood disorder (A Closer Look at Puppy

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Mills). Many of the puppies suffer from heart disease, blood and respiratory disorder (Puppy
Mills). Most of these diseases can not be cured with medications.
Dogs need to be treated with love and care. Dogs should not live in such bad conditions.
Us people would not want to be living in your own filth every day of your life. Dogs should be
able to run free and not be treated like they are slaves. Puppy mills are basically abusing dogs to
just make profit. But, the puppy mills rebuttal is that they make so many puppies so they can
afford to food and shelter for them. They believe that their facility is clean enough for the
animals to live there.
Each year puppy mills make millions of puppies each year (Kenny). But only 2 to 4
million of those puppies get sold each year at pet store and other places (Kenny). Females dogs
that just gave birth has no recovery time (Puppy Mills). As soon as possible they bred her
again (Kenny). They try to breed them twice a year. The have at least 10 - 1,000 breeding dogs at
one time (A Closer Look at Puppy Mills). Mothers and their litters often suffer from
malnutrition exposure and lack of care (Puppy Mills, PETA.org). The mother dogs spend their
entire lives in cages where they never see the sun or breath fresh air (A Closer Look at Puppy
Mills). When the female dogs can not reproduce any longer they are shot or drown (Puppy
Mills). Many of the female dogs are killed at age five (Ten Things to Know about Puppy
Mills).
Puppy mills need to stop making unneeded puppies. They are over using the female
dogs. They need a break in between pregnancies. There are so many dogs and puppies that do not
have a home. Find a home for those unwanted puppies first then make puppies when needed.
Puppy mills say that the reason they produce so many puppies is so the people have a huge

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selection of breeds they can chose from. They want it easier for the people to find the dog we
want. So people say this is as worst as dog cloning and that is bad to say (Grossman).
People need to stop buy dogs or puppies from pet stores, over the internet, newspaper
ads, swap meets, or flea markets. The reason is because most of the dogs or puppies you buy
from there is from puppy mills. 99 percent of puppy mills puppies are sold in pet stores (Ten
Things to Know About Puppy Mills). Pet stores are going to lie to you about where they got the
puppy from. The papers on where they got the puppy from is going to say they got them from a
local breeder. Also, most of the puppies you get from pet stores are going to have parasites or
other disease (Puppy Mills). Some of the puppies can have giardia, parvovirus, distemper,
upper respiratory, kennel cough, pneumonia, mange, fleas, ticks, intestinal parasites, infections,
hart orms, and chronic diarrhea (A Closer Look at Puppy Mill). Many of the puppies you get
from pet stores are taken from their mother from five to eight weeks old (Puppy Mills). This
leads the puppy to have fear, anxiety and other behavioral problems (Puppy Mill). Pet store
send the puppies home with you with the disease or other medical issues it can have.
When buying a puppy make sure you know where the parents are if not the mother.
Puppy mills say that it is easier to sell you puppies through pet store or somewhere else. Also,
they say if you buy a puppies from them it is more of an affordable price. Anywhere you go
make sure you know the mothers health history and you know what conditions the mother lives
in because the puppy may have the same health issues or the puppy could have a disease from
living in bad conditions.
Puppy mills need to be shut down because they only care about the profit from the dog.
Puppy mills need to learn dogs are like human beings. They need clean water and food, warm
shelter and love. No one would want to live a miserable life these poor dogs. Every puppy mill

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needs to be inspected every year. Also, if there are secret puppy mills going on the people who
runs the mills need to be thrown into jail. Puppy mills need to stop produces millions of puppies.
Many of the puppies are killed than bought that are from puppy mills. There is only 2 to 4
million puppies that get sold each year and puppy mills makes more that that a year (Kenny). Do
not buy puppies or dogs from the pet store or anywhere you do not know where the mother is.
Many of the puppies are going to carry diseases or other medical issues. Instead of buying from
pet stores go to your local shelter. The plan is to make puppy mills illegal in the United States.

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Dudley, William. Animal Rights. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. Print.

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