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Originally Posted by MomtoJasper  Have there always been so many bybs, puppy mills and brokers? Or is this just really hitting in the last few years? It just seems so rampant now. It could be that I'm becoming more educated and I just didn't know what to look for before coming here. I don't know. But, its awful and it makes me literally cry when I picture the sweet babies in cages and filth. Then I get angry and don't know what to do. But, I feel like I'm just as guilty as they are if I don't do anything. I remember when our malls in Memphis used to have pet stores that sold dogs and other small animals. They've been closed for years. So how do you go about finding these people? |
While there have always been problems with the breeding of purebred animals the rage for small sized dogs has made things much worse. Raising small breed dogs has become a sort of "cottage industry" in this country. Between the back yard breeders and the puppy mills there are just way too many animals being abused with this sort of careless, irresponsible breeding.
There still are malls with pet stores that sell puppies and most of them have an AKC litter registration slips. The majority of puppy mills and BYB's in this country are members in good standing with AKC. AKC has nothing to do with the quality of a pet. It is merely a piece of paper that is only as good as the breeder that possesses it.