Dog and Cats

question about puppy mills. do all pet stores have their dogs from puppy mills?

it makes me curious are puppy mills only specializing in small breeds?? or can they have whatever they want?? cause if all dogs in pet shops are from there that makes me wonder.

there is a per stores that sells puppies about 5 blocks away from my apartment and they have a wide variety of dogs like most of them are pomeranians, jack russell terriers, chihuahuas, shih tzus yorkies pugs,boston terrier , there are some mixed breeds puggles, maltipoos, shihpoos, pom-a-poo
but there were some really big dog breeds there i have seen a husky, white german shepherds, bullmastifs, even a st. bernard
i was there yesterday i have a rabbit so i buy the food and bedding there and they had 2 english bulldogs which are really expensive
so it makes me wonder where do they get those dogs from ?? puppy mills?? do they have like some kind of agreement with the local BYB for the bigger breeds

99% of petshop puppies are from puppy mill
1% are backyard breeders, but no way to tell the difference

Puppy mils have ALL breeds POSSIBLE! THERE MONEY GRABBERS!

However Petsmart and Petco and Pets at Home-Australian Store-believe have certified shelter animal adoption, but check documentation for proof, as there are some petshops using the term adoptiion, when there not, they are actually from puppy mills, Pets Paradise-australian petstore is one of them!

Every pet shop that sells puppies will assure you, solemnly, that their puppies are different. Their puppies don’t come from puppy mills, but from fine local breeders. Pillars of the community, in fact.

The reality is that responsible breeders will never place one of their puppies in a pet shop or anywhere else for resale or consignment. Never, ever, ever. Any breeder who has placed their puppy in a pet shop to be sold has immediately disqualified himself as a responsible breeder.

WHY?

Because, as commercial establishments, pet shops are required to sell a puppy to anyone who can pay. Legally, they are not allowed to “screen” buyers for suitability. Responsible breeders wouldn’t be able to sleep at night wondering which of their puppies might have gone to an unsuitable home and was not being properly cared for.

But my pet shop says…
The pet shop industry has manuals and trade journals that teach pet shop owners and employees exactly what to say to persuade you to buy. Their marketing ploys include:

“We buy only from local breeders.”
What difference does this make? Whether a breeder is local or lives in Timbuktu, whether he has produced only one litter or many — if he has placed his puppies in a pet shop, his breeding practices are irresponsible. Geographical location makes no difference at all.

“We buy only from USDA-licensed breeders.”
USDA stands for the United States Department of Agriculture. Their business is supposed to be livestock. They know little or nothing about dogs. As long as a breeder’s paperwork is in order, the facilities are disinfected, cages are a minimum size, and no infectious diseases such as distemper are immediately obvious, the kennel passes.

The USDA has not the slightest interest in…

whether the breeder knows anything about his breed
whether the dogs used for breeding look like their breed
whether the dogs used for breeding act like their breed
whether the dogs used for breeding are free of genetic health problems such as hip dysplasia, eye diseases, or heart defects.

USDA Breeder is a label to stay away from. The only reason someone would apply for this license is to crank out lots of puppies.

“Health guaranteed!”
This “reassuring” platitude is how pet shops and irresponsible breeders seek to get around the expenses of genetic testing.

They offer to replace defective puppies rather than avoiding them in the first place by requiring their “wonderful” breeders to do genetic health tests on any parent dog used for breeding.

Let’s look at it from the PUPPY’S point of view. Guarantees don’t help a puppy at all. You get your money back, while the puppy still has to live with the genetic health problem that could have been avoided — if his breeder had been seeking to produce healthy lives rather than seeking to keep his expenses down by avoiding genetic health testing.

We’re talking about quality of life here. Don’t support any breeder or pet shop who cares so little about the future life of their puppies that they do not require genetic health testing of the parents, in breeds where such health problems are virtually an epidemic.

Pet shops aren’t too worried about their “guarantees”, by the way. They don’t have to honor many of them because most genetic health problems don’t show up for six months or a year or two years. Either the guarantee has expired by then, or most people won’t return a dog they’ve had for that long.

Not just HEALTH problems
Obedience instructors and canine behavioral consultants will be happy to tell you about the temperament and behavior problems that develop in many pet shop puppies as they grow up.

Most pet shop puppies start out playful and friendly, but as they mature, their genes begin to assert themselves. If their parents or grandparents had shy or aggressive or hyperactive temperaments, those genes will show up during adolescence and adulthood.

Many pet shop puppies are nippy. Some were removed from their mother before 7 weeks of age, a critical period of time where she teaches them “bite inhibition.” Some have learned to nip from interacting with so many potential owners wandering through the pet shop, including kids who tug and play roughly. Most of these potential owners thought the nipping was cute, didn’t correct the puppy for it, and so the habit becomes entrenched.

Finally, raised in a small cage in which they’re encouraged to eliminate freely, pet shop puppies are notoriously difficult to housebreak.

Watch these videos-You can even see Labradors and Siberian Husky squashed in a cage with there Pups! In australia there are quite a few no cage puppy mill, but there still BAD, due to the fact they are overbreeding mutts, deliberately for profit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOtk47QnS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HM8UmHM8Uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdcNl5FqcKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9OpEThM7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JaIMBtPB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDGlWTWrWBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtYaXgc9aK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZTjNVpH1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLccL9Yi3J4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYoTZMHSbYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBRPdMS9Wc

Vulnerable Native Breeds Rare Dogs BBC Country File

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