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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  I understand what you are saying there, but i still don't like to give a commercial breeder who does have a very fine facility and takes pride and good care in his/her dogs and puppies the tag of "puppy mill" because around here in the midwest puppy mills are the ones with the manged dogs and the poor falling in kennels and all the horrible treatments. I am from MO and it has been listed the puppy mill state of the USA, however, i know several personal friends that would be considered commercial or backyard breeders who have beautiful indoor kennels with individual areas for each family of dogs and that take very very good care of their adults and pups and do a wonderful job of it, they have more than one breed and more than one mommy in their facility and some of you automatically label them a puppy mill. IMO these people should not be given the label puppy mill because they are not the same thing as the puppy mills that you see on Oprah or on ASPA commercials, they are VERY VERY different things entirely...
i guess it's just the world we live in though, labels and stereotypes that give everyone a bad name when not everyone really is as bad as the labels they are given. |
The very term "mill" means:
a building or group of buildings with machinery for manufacturing or processing something; factory
That's why commercial kennels were nicknamed "mills".
As I said, though, the term as come to be associated with the condition of the kennel, not just the volume of puppies produced.
The Hunte Corporation that Nancy mentioned above is a perfect example. They have state-of-the-art facilities, but the sheer volume of puppies they produce still makes them a "mill".