We were talking earlier about how many dogs were born in puppy mills vs. regular breeders. By regular breeder, I mean the small home breeder, and I guess that would includes byb's, hobby breeders, and show breeders, as well as the pet owners who don't classify themselves as breeders at all, but have a oops pregnancy, in other words, not a large commercial breeder.
This websites says that "It’s estimated that 4 million dogs are bred in puppy mills every year. "
Puppy Mill Awareness Day.
Now, I don't now if this number is correct, and I still can't find an estimate on how many total dogs are born a year, at least from even one semi reliable source. Can anyone help me here? My point of this is that people seem to think the largest producer of puppies is the commercial breeder, and I use to believe this too, but I have read lately that this is just not true, but I can't find any documentation now. I'm not trying to argue a point, but now I'm just curious. Woogieman is right; a national database would be helpful.