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Originally Posted by rhhh75572  That is just awful!! I so wish there was a way to find all these people and put them out of business! But honestly, they sell cheap puppies, and most people want cheap dogs, so the vast majority of people will continue to buy from puppy mills. It is a vicious cycle, and the poor, helpless dogs are the ones that suffer!!  |
Pet shops don't sell cheap puppies! They buy them cheap and sell them for many many times their cost. It's not uncommon for a purebred pup to go for $3000-4000 and a mix to go for $1000-2000. They buy them by the truck loads from puppymills for a few hundred each. Same with the greeders who sell online.
Another thing to think about. If you buy a pup from a pet shop, not only is the mill and the shop getting rewards for exploiting animals, the dogs trapped in the mills have to produce more pups to fill the shops. The dog that a good home could have taken in from rescue doesn't get saved (since they bought from a shop), AND another dog that could have taken the empty spot can't get into rescue and continues to suffer. And rescues are ALWAYS full bc of the the puppymills and greeders!