I saw a news item on TV about a year ago (I forget which show, but I think it was on PBS) which showed how those flea market pups are sometimes either stray dogs, stolen dogs, or the puppies of stray/stolen dogs. It's as inhumane an existence as a puppy mill, and some of these people go on to sell whatever they can't sell as pets, to labs that do animal experimentation. It's a very sad life (if you can call it that) for those animals. |