I had a foot in my mouth moment. Just to give you all a background for those who don't live in the area. There's a trade center by me called "Gibralter Trade Center." Well, in this trade center there are booths with vendors who sell and trade things ranging from beanie babies to paintball guns.
Anyway, they also have a pet store in there that sells, you guessed it, puppies. Here's a link of someone sneaking a video of the dogs locked in their cages:
YouTube - ‪Pollywood Pet Store‬‏
If you look at the bottom o the cages, it's literally chicken wire and the dog's paws slip through it alot, infuring their paws (witnesed it myself and had to run outside because the dogs were rolling around in their own poop and it was all matted in their fur and I was so upset that I got sick.)
Well, I work at a Credit Union and I was waiting on one of my usual member when we started talking about dogs. So I started telling her about Gizmo. She said she just got a dog and pulled her cell phone out to show me a Puggle. He was cute and I asked her where she got him. She looked at me and goes "Gibralter Trade Center."
I looked at her and said, "Oh, I'm sorry."
She looked up at me and said, "Okay, why are you sorry?"
And I said, "Because the dogs they sell are puppymill puppies and are living in horrible conditions."
She stopped and looked at me for a few seconds, and says "Um no they're not they bought them all from breeders."
I proceeded to tell her that no reptuable breeder would sell their pups to a place that locks them in 4x4 cages all day. Then finished her transaction, and told her that her baby was adorable, and I'm glad he was taken out of such a horrible circumstance. She just kind of looked at me weird and left.
I didn't mean to be rude or ruin her conception of a pet store, but someone had to tell her. I guess the circumstance would have been different if she would have said "I know they are, but I couldn't leave that face stranded...." Etc, but she didn't. She proceeded to make excuses about the place.
Now if you clicked on the link and saw the living conditions, would you make excuses for them?
Didn't think so.