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Well..we know how I feel about Pet Stores - I usually don't get into what I saw years ago I will now -

I was in a Pet Store - a puppy went into convulsions - they took that poor baby and practically threw it into a cage in the back - without helping it - ....I was young but never forgot the fact that they did nothing to help it - it was more important to get it out of site from the customers then take it to a vet or give it medical attention - to this day I can see the suffering and that employee shrugging her shoulders and saying "Oh Well"...

Then as I had my first dog in my life - Tessa my cocker - we learned she was actually from a mill - What my husband thought was a big breeder was actually a small puppy mill with 200 plus cockers all in cages - again - I knew no better and did have the creeps in her place of business but since he had bought ALL his cockers from her - I went along with it - Tessa has such bad teeth we have to hand feed her -

As I learned more and more I know that Mills sell to Pet Stores - It's not being a fanatic or a lunatic or even unreasonable to want that practice stopped - Mills = abuse.

Pet stores are the BIGGEST Purchaser of Mill Animals and if the Pet Store didn't sell any pets - the mills would not mass breed the way they do - It just makes sense...Stop buying what they sell and they will stop producing mass quantities - Everyone can help and speaking up here is just a first step ...

This has nothing to do with PETA or orginazations that want to save animals - it's just a fact that Pet Stores buy Mill puppies.-

Defending Pet Stores is contradicting how much we want to help animals escape life in a mill - I was dissapointed that hardly anyone here voices an opinion on this dilema ...but go look at a puppymill site JUST ONCE...then ask yourself - "Where do these poor puppies end up" ?

I'll answer - Pet Stores and and Brokers !

There are always mom and pop stores that may care....but the reality is - where else are they going to find an endless supply of puppies but in a mill ?

Sorry this is long - I really apologize - it's just a very important subject and not enough is being done about it in this country