Pet Shops Are Just Puppy Mills in Disguise

Pet shops get their puppies from puppy mills and irresponsible breeders. Even though they may tell you that their pups don’t come from puppy mills but from respected local breeders. A respected responsible breeder would never put their puppies in a pet shop or anywhere else for resale. Pet shops are required to sell a puppy to anyone who can pay for it. Pet shops legally are not allowed to screen buyers. Pet shops have also developed manuals that teach pet shop owners and employees what to say to persuade you to buy from them.

Pet shop puppies are often from ill-tempered stock or turn bad tempered from the long stay in the small cubical they inhabit (this also makes housetraining difficult). Many pups are removed from their littermates before 7 weeks you should not buy a puppy younger than 8 weeks the first 8 weeks of life is a crucial time for pups to learn about inhibiting biting. Many pups learn to bite from puppy visitors thinking it’s cute encouraging them to play roughly.

It is very understandable that you might want to rescue a puppy from a pet shop. But your good intentions feed into the money hungry and uncaring industry of pet shops by rewarding them with money. Therefore causing yet another innocent puppy to replace that empty cubicle.

Your one purchase contributes to:

The next puppy who is to fill the cage you have emptied, and his/her misery of being born with health and temperament problems.

The owners who have to deal with the heartache of this puppy being born with health and temperament problems.

The females who are puppy machines being bred constantly without a break in bad conditions.

And the animal rescues and shelters who end up with these dogs because they become too much for the average pet owner, or the pet shop won’t take back the puppy when it becomes a full grown 100lb. Dog and they can no longer take care of it.

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