[natalie]

A clean puppymill, a decent puppymill, an "allright" puppymill, the best puppymill on this planet, a loving puppymill or just a plain puppymill.. at the end of the day, this place is still a puppymill regardless of how good they think they are at the filthy business.

It's easy for someone to add adjectives to any title of their company or any description to make their business sound better. Who doesn't do that? That's great marketing. Do you know how many "Best Restaurant in Town"s there are this city or how many "Voted #1 in the metroplex". Words are just that-- words. Anyone can use them and anyone can twist them to make themselves look better.

What I am surprised at is the pictures. I do not want my dog to be living on a dirt floor in the heat. I do not care if there is one person watching over them or 100 people watching over them. The point remains as solid as rock-- they are laying on dirt floors. For the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were just out there during the day to play and then brought in to sleep. Even then, I will say.. I do not want my dogs playing on dirt floors. I do not want them in cages and I do not want my male stuck in a cage all day with 5 females in hopes that he will mate with atleast one of them. That's ridiculous.

I do not care if he can answer his FAQ's with the best answers ever heard by mankind because he is only answering them with mere sentences. Who is to believe him? Horrible breeders scheming people out of money also have the ability to make themselves look like the gentle giant, don't they? They try to persuade you that they are a one-of-a-kind breeder when after the transaction, they may be the most horrible person you have ever met or will ever meet in your entire life.

I cannot begin to fathom someone trying to defend puppymills. I do understand opinions and I respect everyone's opinion. I'm just shocked because those pictures are so blunt and straight-forward. A loving person will not own that large of an amount of dogs and breeds. A loving person definately would not leave them in the heat or laying on dirt floors. They're breeding "All-American" (mutts) dogs and selling them as "designer dogs". They have, pretty much, a field full of cages.

Those dogs are just gathering at that fence looking at the photographer as if they wanted that person to take pictures to put down the camera and carry them instead.

I guess my point is.. a puppymill by any other name will still be a puppymill.

And just as you have the right to say that it may not be a puppymill, we have the right to say that it may be. Honestly, noone will ever know unless you step foot on that property yourself. But to me, in my opinion, those pictures are pretty clear. Even if it were not a puppymill, what type of owner would leave all of those dogs outside in those horrible metal cages on dirt ground.