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06-23-2006, 01:36 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Where Pet Store Dogs come from...This is NOT graphic ! Sorry - Another Puppy Mill Post We reach so many people on this site - I think it's important to keep it in our minds how thousands of dogs are treated EVERY DAY in this country. This video is tame compared to some undercover videos I've seen. It is NOT Graphic - but it IS Disturbing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1GnYpq9TYM For those out there who think Pet Stores are Ok - PLEASE WATCH how these Puppy Mill Dogs have to live every day It's heartbreaking. We need to try to stop Pet Stores from selling Live Animals - each of us can help - We tell our friends - who tell THEIR friends - don't buy that Dog at the PET STORE ! |
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06-23-2006, 01:42 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: scotland
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| Hi villette I could not watch it but you do have my support in trying to stop this. We dont have this in Scotland , we used to years ago but its not allowed now!Thankgoodness. I was on holiday in Spain and was quite disturbed to see dogs in petshop windows for sale!!!!!This needs to stop , I can understand how easy it would be to buy one when you see it all pitiful and lonely sitting in a shop ,my heart just goes out to those little puppies , they dont get a good start in life do they?
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06-23-2006, 01:55 PM | #3 | |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Quote:
I know it's all about the almighty dollar - but we CLAIM to love animals in the United States - yet this goes on in EVERY STATE in this country - some areas are far worse than others...many many dogs live in Blistering heat and Freezing cold winters in METAL OUTDOOR CAGES ! That is So So CRUEL.... and the people who do this should be in JAIL. My hats off to Scotland - that's just awesome and obviously your country really DOES love Mans best friend. | |
06-23-2006, 02:05 PM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Albany
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| OMG! I knew that it wasn't good to get puppies from pet shops. I could see that just from looking at the obvious facts. When I see some one talking about a puppt mill I just thought that it was a person who breeds several breeds but I had know idea it went to this extreme. Especially here in the US. Thanks Villette. This was a real Eye Opener. BTW I got Beauty from a friend who bred her little girl. No pet store Shopping Here!
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06-23-2006, 02:09 PM | #5 |
Princess Poop A Lot Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado
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| Vee - you can never say it enough or show it enough...to many people just shut their eyes to the ugly truth. Keep on posting, girlfriend and maybe one day these evil places will be shut down.
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06-23-2006, 02:13 PM | #6 | |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Quote:
Now that you saw that video ...there are way way worse - this is a good site to really learn about Mills - http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/ it's horrible and the pictures will make you cry - BUT this is what Millions of dogs live like EVERY DAY. The puppies get brokered and loaded onto Big 18 wheeler trucks - shipped cross country to Pet Stores - Evil Petland is the biggest customer of Puppy Mills/Hunte Corp. I don't want to make you sad - but the more people that get outraged - the better for the dogs in the long run.....Tell ALL your friends about this and thank you for sharing....When I first learned about Mills - I think I was crying on and off for a week - I had NO idea either. and Thanks Cindy....I always appreciate your comments - I really do talk about it with people and write letters still - one day someone will have the power to stop the Cruelty to animals America is responsible for. Every State needs to take charge of their laws and end this awful business. and Chloes Mom - good for you on your little Beauty !!
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06-23-2006, 02:15 PM | #7 |
Luv My Butterflies Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Big Easy
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| I'm crying so much here! That's so terrible how those poor babies are treated! Thank god I didn't buy that puppy I saw at a Pet Shop. |
06-23-2006, 02:19 PM | #8 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: scotland
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| I think that the Scottish RSPCA ad a lot to do with it. I can remember as a child always going to the pet shop and seeing the puppies ,but this has been stopped for years, I have never heard of puppymills as such here, however sometimes I have heard of people buying a dog without seeing parents. One of my neighbours had this done to her , she was told to meet the breeder in a car park but the guy was coming over from Ireland on the ferry,but customs guys got him in the end. My neighbour still has her dog , who is a very large yorkie but he was so ill when she got him but she would not give him back. There are a lot of , what you in the states call hobbie breeders but nothing on a really big scale and they are mostly good intentioned people. Look at my Alfie, no papers , handsome, no health problems,weighs just under 7lbs but I met mum and dad .Lottie has loads of champions in her papers got her through the Kennel Club seen her mum , nice breeder very honest, she weighs under 5lbs ,good health,great nature. I'm not saying there is no bad breeders but I think the puppymillers have no hold over here.I think people would report them to the SRSPCA.
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06-23-2006, 02:26 PM | #9 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Man - I'd love to kidnap some SRSPCA people and set them loose in THIS country - that's outstanding. I wish we'd wake up and follow your lead. Scotland totally impresses me now....I already liked the scenery and the people like YOU that I've gotten to know.. and Zoey's Momma...I'm sorry to upset you I feel the same way - I had nightmares and terrible dreams when I started really researching Mills As I said earlier - this was NOTHING compared to some of Peta's Undercover Videos. They may be slightly fanatical - but they sure do try to help animals in abuse and we can ALL help by spreading the word about Mills. Many of us write our media - Tv - radio - letters to newspapers etc. We can try to help in small ways and maybe one day things will be better for our dogs. |
06-23-2006, 02:28 PM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2006 Location: Jacksonville FL
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| If you ever do a google search on Puppy Mills, you will be overwhelmed with the photos and videos that are proof of these TERRIBLE places. I am so against purchasing from PET Stores. It's a horrible lifestyle that stays rampant by the purchase of the cute puppy in the petshop window. I went to the City Pound a year ago, and my two daughters helped pick out what dog they could save from there. We love our Scooby. He was such a matted mess of fur, well what you'd call fur anyways. His mental state was shaky for a few weeks. But the love he has returned is amazing, and he's a beautiful black cockapoo now. Thanks for posting the link. Spread the news about Puppy Mills.
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06-23-2006, 03:12 PM | #11 | |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Quote:
I have a black Cocker Tessa - she is a dream girl ...little did I know 11 years ago that we actually bought her in a small scale Mill. I was SO ignorant....the day we got her ....I remember being so upset at the smell and all those poor dogs barking - now I know what it was. When they told us she had such a bad underbite she probably would never be sold - She was mine on the spot - (the vet said....they would have put her down )...she's been a great girl - but I had to hand feed her every day when she was a puppy and still do now.... because she is just plain spoiled | |
06-23-2006, 03:56 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canton,Ohio
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| Thank you for the video. Sometimes it takes seeing things like this to drive home the point of how poorly these animals are treated. I am 100% committed to doing everything I can possibly do to putting all of them (puppy mills) out of business!! It sickens me that this is allowed to happen and is acceptable to the authorities. As much as I wanted to rescue the puppies I recently came across in the pet store, I know deep in my heart I would be helping to fund this horrible operation. I think the press needs to get involved and get the word out. A lot of people do not realize what goes on "behind the scenes". I am working with 2 area newspapers to do articles on puppy mills and pet stores. If we all work together, I am convinced we CAN make a difference!! (that and a whole lot of PRAYER!!)
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06-23-2006, 04:45 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | GOOD for you !! That's really all you can do - every little bit helps ... |
06-23-2006, 05:02 PM | #14 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Fredonia, KS
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| That is a video that shows the very worst of puppy mills! That is NOT how most puppy mills are run. That was the worst of the worst!! My husband's aunt and uncle raised puppies several years ago. They are some of the best christian people that I know and their dogs were very well taken care of. They got out of the business when hatred for puppy mills got really bad and the bottom dropped out of the market. Everything was nice and clean and well taken care of, including the dogs. Most people don't feed their dogs food with maggots in it and they make sure that their dogs are well taken care of. I live in puppy mill country and I've never seen or heard of anything like that video. I'm not going to say that raising several different breeds is an ideal situation, but what I'm saying is, don't judge everyone who raises puppies by what you saw on the video.
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06-23-2006, 05:16 PM | #15 |
Peeka Boo I See You! Donating Member | OMG PLEASE IF YOU LOVE ANIMALS NEVER WATCH ANY OF THE PETA VIDEOS I WENT TO WATCH THE ONE YOU POSTED WITCH IS NOT GRAFFIC BUT I CLICKED ON ANOTHER ONE TO SEE IF IT WAS SIMMILAR AND HAD TO RUN TO THE BATHROOM TO THROW UP I AM SO UPSET HOW PPL COULD DO THESE THINGS!!! YOUTUBE HAS VERY GRAFFIC VIDEOS OF ANIMALS BEING SKINNED ALIVE SO JUST A WARNING IF YOU WATCH THIS LINK IT IS FINE BUT I BEG YOU NOT TO VIEW ANYOTHER ONE THERE
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