Puppy Mills, How You Can Stop Them.

I'm surprised at how many people that I've met do not know this about pet store puppies-  90% of all petstore puppies come from puppy mills. The store will tell you that the dogs come from breeders; they may even believe that to be true because no puppy mill owner is going to tell the store that they are a puppy mill! They will assure the store owner that they are a good breeder, however; how many reponsible breeders do you know would sell a bunch of puppies to a store to be sold to goodness knows who? Responsible breeders hand pick the families that they place their puppies with and like to keep in contact with those families and puppies for their lifetime. The reason that good breeders do this is because they need the feedback information to use in planning future breedings in their programs. They need to know if there are any problems, to know if a dog needs to be removed from the breeding program. They need to know what their puppies turn out like when full grown so that they know what their breeding dogs are producing. Check out this article.

Where *Not* to Buy a Dog: The Pet Store Connection to the Business of Puppy Mills - Forbes

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