Puppy Mills
Precious was a puppymill breeder before she came in to rescue. This means that her sole purpose in life - the entire 10 years of her life - was to produce puppies, which in turn would produce money for the miller who owned her and (likely) many other dogs much like her. If you have a Shih Tzu that you bought at a petstore, Precious could even be its mother. Take a look at her pictures. Read her full story. Precious is the lie people buy when they are told in a petstore that the puppies they sell are home-raised. Precious is the sad truth behind what people tell themselves when they don't want to believe puppy mills exist.
Precious got one chance, in the very last of her 10 difficult years, to know kindness. We thank the good person who put her into the arms of her foster mom. We thank the foster mom. And we thank Precious for leaving behind with her memory, the opportunity to use her heartbreaking story to teach others that to buy a puppy from a petstore is to sentence dogs like Precious to continued misery. Please make adoption your only option.
Precious
was irreversibly blind, the result of untreated eye infections over the years; her teeth needed to be extracted; her coat was sparse, she was bald in places, had a scaly skin condition & a naked tail, or “rat tail,” a telltale sign of Cushing Disease (diagnosis was later confirmed). Despite everything, Precious’ little tail waged incessantly whenever she was spoken to, touched or picked up.On her 1st vet visit, Precious weighed 7 pounds of nearly bare skin covering a protruding spine and hip bones.Open our NBSTR Article, "Explaining Puppymills," written by one of our wonderful foster moms
This is Precious as she was when she came in to our rescue. Precious was a puppy mill breeder. Read her story, below.
Punkin is an apricot colored Male Teacup Poodle, 2.5 years old, and 3#. Punkin was purchased at an Amish miller @ swap meet, where he was in a chicken crate with 5 other dogs. The backyard breeder who bought him decided she had no time or money for a dog that could not immediately be of use to her, so she got rid of him. Punkin’s hind legs are bent, and he will be evaluated by a vet to see what can be done to help him walk normally. Meanwhile, the little boy bounces about his foster home, enjoying life, and demonstrating a wonderful spirit of fun, mischief and love.
Don't buy the lie - Petstore puppies come from puppy mills
Definition of a puppy mill: anyone breeding strictly for profit - aka Commercial Breeders.
In order to make a profit, breeders need to have a lot of dogs and breed them as often as possible. Standard practice is to keep dogs in small cages with wire flooring and no veterinary care for their entire lives. When a dog can no longer produce a littler of puppies it is killed off, left on the side of a road, or given/sold to a shelter or rescue group.
Pet stores get their dogs exclusively from commercial breeders. Yes, that means that puppies in stores come from puppy mills! While over 4 million animals are euthanized in shelters every year, puppy mills churn out an estimated 500,000 puppies a year. Selling puppies makes millions of dollars for breeders and pet shops. Meanwhile, their breeding stock lives a life of misery. NEVER buy a dog from a pet store or website. ADOPT! For more information, visit www.NBSTR.org
Please use the link below to download a .pdf version of this poster, print (works especially well on photo paper!) and spread the news: pet store puppies come from puppy mills. If anyone tells you differently. . . they're lying.