Say No to Pet Store Puppies

At any shopping area there is usually a pet store. There is usually a few adorable puppies in the window. People saying," Awwwwwww!!" Children saying," I want that puppy please,please,please!!!!" Puppies put on their puppy faces to make it even harder to resist. The pet store is counting on people like us to not resist these cute puppy faces, sad eyes and little tails wagging saying"Take Me Home. I'm The One You want." Then the employees say" Would you like to hold one?" Then you find yourself in trouble when you get home.
The truth behind all of this: cute puppies, helpful employees, acting like these puppies are so great. The whole beginning of their life is horrible!!!!
Puppy Mills: A Horror Story!!!
Most pet store's get their puppies from puppy mills no matter what they say, unless they have a picture of the dog's parents and the breeder. They usually get these dogs from Puppy Mills in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. That is why pet store puppies are so expensive! There are at least 4,000 puppy mills in the US. They over breed female dogs starting at six months old until they no longer can have puppies (around age five )and then they are disposed. They are put to death and not even buried. They are thrown into a dumpster. Sad huh? There puppies may look clean at the pet store, but at the puppy mill they have oozing sores, maggot infested food, and filthy cages. The cages are cramped, wire stacked on top of each other, living in their own waste and the adult dogs live the same way. These puppies and dogs have never seen a blade of grass and usually don't know how to walk on grass or concrete. They never have chased a ball, slept on a soft surface, or been cuddled by a human. Most likely, they have never had human contact. These puppies are ripped from their mothers at 4 weeks old, crammed into crates and shipped to pet stores to be sold. The puppies most likely will have health problems or aggressive behavior because they have never had human contact. They are also difficult to housebreak because they slept and lived in their own feces before. If you buy a puppy from a pet store, you are supporting these horrible places. If we all stop buying dogs in this way, puppy mills will run out of money and will have to shut down their business eventually.
Once my family bought a Golden Retriever from a pet store or really a puppy mill. He was aggressive and didn't know how to walk on the grass. He bit my hand so hard it became numb. He was probably one of those sad puppies. That is the last time we will buy from a pet store. If you want a puppy, adopt from a breeder or an animal shelter. In both of these environments they have plenty of human contact and grow up in a better environment. They get to stay with their parents until they are at least 8 weeks or older.