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Exposing Puppy Mills-Emily Stull, Sydney Winstead, Jonathan Grams

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/animal-cops/philadelphia/puppy-mills-exposed/ ES 1. Many puppy mill puppies are at risk for hereditary, and congenital diseases, and YOU get the expensive veterinary bill. 2. Many of the puppies die before they even get to the pet store. 3. Many puppies are brokered as early as five to eight weeks old. 4.The puppies are separated from their mothers. 5. There are no guarantees that your puppy is healthy. 6. The pet store will often say the puppies are purebreds, but that is not necessarily true either. 7. Puppies from puppy mills often have diseases such as Gairdia and Brucellosis which are contiguous to humans. 8. Many of the puppies have behavioral problems. 9. When the mothers can no longer breed, they are abandoned, sold off to another mill to try and get another litter, or killed. 10. Puppies have been known to be shot, gassed in dog sized gas chambers, drowned, or burned. 11. Many of the breeding dogs have never in their lives actually walked on solid ground. 12. the dogs, and puppies live in their own waste. 13. The cages are often stacked up on other cages. 14. Some dogs simply live in rabbit hutches. 15. The wire cages are designed to left their feces fall through, but the dogs feet fall with them. 16. On the way to the pet store their cages are stacked up on other cages. 17. They often fight with other dogs because of the lack of room in their small cages. 18. Many dogs die from lack of veterinary care. 19. If the puppy mill owner hear that they are about to be raided they will get rid of their dogs any way they can. 20. Puppies who are too sick, or ugly to be sold are killed in whatever way is most convenient. 21. The pet store will euthanize their puppies when they get to old. 22. The food has almost no nutritional value. 23. Their water is often contaminated. 24. They often get parasites. 25. A sign that someone is is a puppy mill broker is that they always have puppies available. 26. Puppies are often neglected at night in pet shops. 27. Buying supplies from pet stores helps to keep their puppy mill relationship afloat. 28. Online puppy mills are able to sidestep the Animal Welfare Act. 29. They are never let out to exercise. 30. Puppy mills contribute to the overpopulation of dogs in shelters.

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Barnosky, Sandy. __The horror of puppy mills__. 12/5/10 Google. 12/20.10 . ES 2.Most breeders don't vaccinate their puppies for fatal diseases. 3. Puppies are taken from their mothers too early. 4. They often have temperament problems. 5. The breeders don't breed them to improve the breed, but for money. 6. They often go without food or water. 7. The live in their own waste. 8. It is not unusual for dogs to go insane. 9. The confinement causes disturbing behavior like self mutilation, and turning in circles. 10. Most puppies die from starvation, dehydration, and/or fatigue. 11. In investigations food was found to be maggot infested. 12. dogs might live in outdoor wire cages. 13. They live in 16"x36" cages. 14 With three to four dogs in a single cage. 15. Puppies sometimes live with their mothers in their tiny cage. 16. The cages are often times stacked three high. 17. There is no ventilation. 18. Paws are cut by the wire cages and get infected. 20. Only recently has problems with seizures, parasites, infections, and behavioral problems been linked to puppy mill conditions. 21. Chicken coops are sometimes turned into crude kennels. 22. Many dogs are ill, but won't get any veterinary care. 23.To the puppy mill owner the dogs and their puppies are disposable. 24.The puppies are not adequately socialized. 25.They commonly have worms. 26. Sick puppies are cages with healthy puppies. 27. You can tell a puppy mill form a responsible breeder if they don't let you see the parents. 28. Or where the dogs live. 29. The killing of unwanted animals is common. 30.Anti animal cruelty laws that target puppy mills are rarely enforced in rural areas, where puppy mills are common.
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SW 1.puppy mills have been around for decades 2. majority of pet stores buy puppies from puppy mills 3.If the mill has to many puppies in that one liter the sent it away to another mill or killed the puppy. 4.the puppies live in wired cages 5.the mills never take care of the dogs 6.Four million cats and dogs—about one every eight seconds—are put down in U.S. shelters each year. 7. over populated animals in cages 9. Neglect animals in the puppy mills by staving them and depriving them of welfare 10.90% of pet stores buy from puppy mills 11. Dogs are cramped into small filthy cages 12. Most puppy mills are in hiding 13. Puppy are treated like breeding machines and cash crops 14. Puppies are denied veterinary 15. Puppies are exposed to extreme heat and cold 16. No adult dogs are sent to pet stores only puppies 17. Adult has to breed puppies or they will be let down 18.many of the dogs that grew up in puppy mills attack their new owners 19. only 10 states has passed a law to ban mills 20. all of the puppies that cant be sold or breed are killed 21.most of the dogs don't even make it out of the mills 22.states are not passing bills to baned puppy mills 23.Thousands of puppy mills aren't even regulated or inspected by the USDA, since many of them sell directly to the public 24.The average puppy mill has between 65 and 75 animals housed in hutch-style cages with wire floors. 25.The waste drops to the ground below and accumulates beneath the cage where flies and other gross things fester. 26.Dogs at puppy mills are often not actually purebred, and the breeders sometimes lie about lineage records. 27.Dogs housed in indoor facilities deal with equally terrible conditions, with ammonia vapors and odors permeating badly aired buildings. 28.Solid surfaces aim to protect the legs of puppies, but as they mature and scout out their surroundings, feet and legs often fall through wire floors designed to allow excrement to fall through. 29.injuries compound their misery. 30.Unlicensed puppy mills often sell puppies at six weeks of age even though federal laws prohibit licensed mills from selling puppies under eight weeks of age. __dont by heartaches fot thr holidays__. hsus, "Don't buy heartache for the holidays." 16 december 2010: 30. __the human society of the United States__. ||

__Prisoners of Greed: Puppymills Breed Misery__. Prisoners of Greed. 20 December 2010 .JG

1. Hundreds of thousands of puppies are raised each year in commercial kennels. 2. Puppy mills are distinguished by their inhumane conditions and their non-stop breeding of unhealthy and genetically defective dogs, solely for profit. 3. Very often the dogs in puppy mills are covered with matted, filthy hair, their teeth are rotting, and their eyes have ulcers. 4. The dogs are kept in small wire cages for their whole life. 5. They are almost never allowed out of their cages. 6. They never touch solid ground or grass to run and play. 7. Many of the dogs are injured in fights that occur in the cramped cages from which there's no escape. 8. Many dogs lose their feet and legs when they are caught in the wire floors of the cages and cut off as the dogs struggle to free themselves. 9. Very often there's no heating or air-conditioning in a puppy mill. 10. The dogs freeze in the winter and die from heat stroke during the summer. 11. They "cook" on the wires of the cages during the summer. 12. Female dogs are usually bred the first time they come into heat. 13. They are bred every heat cycle. 14. They are bred until their poor, worn out bodies can't reproduce anymore. Then they are killed. 15. Often they are maliciously killed by being bashed in the head with a rock or shot. 16. Often they are sold to laboratories or dumped. 17. By this time, they are usually 5 years old. 18. Puppy mills maximize their profits by not spending adequate money on proper food, housing, or veterinary care. 19. The food purchased for the dogs are usually bought by the truck load and is usually food that is swept off of the floor. 20. The food is so devoid of nutritional value that the dogs' teeth rot out at an early age. 21. To silence the dogs barking, the handlers ram steel rods down the throats of the dogs to rupture their vocal cords. 22. Puppies are often taken from their mothers at 5 to 8 weeks old and then are sold to brokers. 23. The brokers usually pack them into crates to resell them to pet stores across the U.S. 24. The puppies are shipped by truck or by plane, often without adequate food, water, ventilation, or shelter. 25. Innocent families buy the puppies, only to find out that they are very ill or have genetic/emotional problems. 26. Often the puppies die from diseases and many others have medical problems that cost thousands of dollars to try to heal. 27. Many puppies also have emotional problems because they haven't been properly socialized in the puppy mills. 28. There are several states that are known as puppy mill states from their majority in the puppy mills in the U.S. 29. These states are Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, And Pennsylvania. 30. There are over 4,000 federally licensed breeding kennels in the U.S.

SW 1.Puppy mills are factory-like facilities that produce large numbers of purebred puppies. 2.Puppy mills use the Internet and newspaper ads to sell directly to the public, as well as selling their puppies through pet stores 3.puppy mills include the following: “over breeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of human socialization, overcrowded cages and the killing of unwanted animal 4.Buying a dog from a puppy mill, either directly of indirectly, may likely lead to having an animal that will need urgent veterinary care or caring for whatever genetic diseases the animal may be carrying. 5.These symptoms may not surface for several years into the animal's life. 6.The greatest victims in the puppy mill problem are the breeding parents, because they will live their life in that cage and it generally ends fairly brutally. 7.There are about one to two hundred thousand dogs in puppy mills at any given time in the United States. 8.All breeds of dogs are at risk of being bred in a puppy mill; even larger ones like Saint Bernard's. 9.It's common to see chronic infection in puppy mills 10. Dental disease is a also huge problem. 11. sold legally to pet stores throughout the country. 12.pets stores lie to customer about where their dogs come from 13.north shore animal league is one of the groups that rescue dogs from puppy mills. 14. most puppy mills are abandoned factories 15.dogs are shipped to pet stores across the country. 16.Many more are sold directly to the public, either through the Internet or newspaper ads. 17.Pet stores are not required to inform their customers that their new dog came from a puppy mill 18.classified ads are not obligated to tell potential buyers if the puppies they're selling were born and raised in dismal condition 19.puppy mills are inspected and licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 20.loopholes in the system allow many mills to get away with poor living conditions for their dogs 21.facilities where these puppies are bred are often filthy and overcrowded 22.construction usually consists of a number of small wooden or wire crates and cages that are stacked one on top of the other or cramped side by side. 23.Some of the larger dogs in puppy mills, like those used only for breeding, are barely able to turn around in their tiny cages. 24.dogs are often underfed and lack proper veterinary care, there are a number of medical issues commonly found in mill dogs 25.some diseases are epilepsy, cataracts, personality disorders, periodontal disease, and mammary tumor 26.dogs receive little in the way of human companionship, their social skills are often lacking 27. problematic house pets 28. neglect and carelessness in puppy mills goes on mostly unhindered. 29.plight of mill dogs has yet to be resolved 30. rehabilitated and found permanent homes for many victims of these cruel puppy mills

ceaser, milan. "the truth about puppy mills." __puppy mills__ || || Weller, Leslie. "The Ugly Truth About Puppy Mills and How to Put Them out of Business." 2008-2010. www.factoidz.com. 20 December 2010 . JG 1. In Missouri, 90 dogs were rescued in a recent rescue. 2. A group known as the Mill Dog Rescue, has set up agreements with several puppy mills owners to take the dogs that they don't want anymore. 3. These dogs are injured, deformed, sick, of just too old to sell in pet stores. 4. Usually, the puppy mills owners will compile this list of dogs that they are intent on destroying and will gladly give the Mill Dog Rescue all of these animals instead of killing them. 5. The group has set up these arrangements in hope of saving all of the dogs that they can. 6. They also want to allow most, if not all, of the dogs rescued to have a chance at a quality life with a loving family. 7. The dogs of the rescue lived in rather harsh conditions. 8. The biggest act of cruelty by the owners is repeatedly breeding the females until they die. 9. Second biggest act of cruelty is the neglectful care the owners have for the dogs. 10. No shelter for winter cold. 11. No shelter for summer heat. 12. Not fed well. 13. No veterinary care. 14.These are the puppies that end up in pet stores throughout the country. 15.Statistics show that almost 98% of all puppies sold at pet stores originate at puppy mills. 16.Statistics also show that over 2.7 million dogs were killed last year for no reason but overpopulation. 17. Dogs are continuously breed then the overstock is killed. 18. Puppy mills aren't illegal in most states. 19. This is a huge problem reaching epidemic proportions in mid-west states. 20. Missouri and Arkansas are prime examples of this. 21. Pennsylvania is another state with a large puppy mills problem 22. Law enforcement doesn't have a large reaction to puppy mills. 23. The dogs are considered to be livestock. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.