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Perhaps our most recent intake can shed some light on the puppy mill problem and how consumers are causing the problem.

We got a call from a vet we work with they had a 9 week old Golden Retriever puppy that a client of theirs purchased from a local pet store for $3200. Their dogs didn’t like the pup and they didn’t want to return it to the store. The store wouldn’t give them their money back. They surrendered the pup to the vet, who called us and asked if we had room. Sure we can place a 9 week old Golden. The pup looked sickly and ended up needing extensive worming and an antibiotic for a UTI. Again remember ALL pet store puppies come from puppy mills or as they like to be called Commercial Kennels.

Lets take a minute or two to understand what that $3200 purchase at the pet store funded.

• 1 – The pet store immediately ordered another Golden Retriever puppy
• 2 – the breeder who sold the pup for probably $400 received enough from just that sale to the broker or directly to the store to feed the parents for the next 6 months. Enough time to have another litter
• 3 – The breeder bred Female A to Male B to produce a litter to fill the order from the pet store who needs another Golden Retriever pup.
• 4 – The Mom of the Pup lets call her Sarah (she doesn’t have a name and will never have a name only a number) could be anywhere from 5 months old to 10 years old. She knows nothing except the cage she lives in and that she will be bred, carry the pups, give birth and by 7 weeks the pups will be taken away and she will have to do it again and again until she can’t produce and she will be killed. There are many ways to kill a used up mill dog, some are quick and the millers say painless some are slow and as easy as just stopping feeding them. The male lets call him Buddy will have the same fate when he no longer produces a sizeable litter.
• 5 – Sarah and Buddy will be replaced by a male and female pup from the last litter who wasn’t lucky enough to be picked up, placed on transport and sent to a pet store to be sold to anyone with a credit card.

The only way to stop this madness is to stop funding the cruelty. That cute pet store puppy has parents who will never have a home or a toy or even a kind word. Yes we in rescue get calls from the puppy millers to come and pick up their useless breeding stock, but that is a tiny percent of the breeding dogs who will die at the hands of their captors.
You can stop this by just not giving your money to pet stores, puppy mills, on line breeders or anyone that is making a living on the back of these helpless animals.

Please just say no to the Pet Industry.