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It just breaks my heart to think what these poor babies go through! I couldn't even imagine. We have a place around her. It is suppose to be this "upper class" type pet shop. I went in there one day and almost got kicked out, because I told everyone there not to buy the dogs. I told them that they were extremely expensive, and who knows where the poor things came from. They had them all dressed up with ribbons and bows. And there were these two men running the shop. I over heard them talking to a customer about "calling in an order" for a bulldog puppy! It just made my heart break! And the thing is, if stupid people just keep going in there and say hey! your cute, I think I will take you home! They never meat the parents! They never know the history of that poor baby! And the sad thing is, most of them probably know nothing about what they are taking home with them! That is another reason so many dogs end up at shelters! These are not just "things" that we can have and get rid of like objects. They are animals, and to people like me they are our babies! These people running these mills are heartless. I think they should have been shutdown years ago, and anyone caught doing this should be given Jail time! I think that animal cruelty punishments are more talk than anything. Look at that CC Baird guy who had the kennel here in Arkansas. He commited so many unthinkable acts of cruelty to dogs and cats. Probably in the thousands, since it took them 15 YEARS to shut them down! thats right! 15 YEARS! When the place was finally raided at gun point they rescued I think like 80 dogs, and 140 cats. Don't hold me to those numbers, because I am sure they are not exact. The point is, our government is letting this go on, they are saying that they are doing something about it. But the fact is that they are not doing it fast enough, nor is there being near enough action taken! I also believe that people need to know what is really going on in these places. Before the little babies are all primped up and sold like toys at anyones disposal! I am sure that hardly anyone with half a heart would want to buy them if they knew this. I wish we had someone is the government that felt as strongly about this as we do! Maybe our president needs to take a field trip to a few of these places. We might just see way more action than ever about this.