Puppy mills sell the puppies they produce to pet stores or directly to buyers over the internet. At that point, female dogs are worthless to a breeder and are often dumped at an animal shelter, auctioned off, or cruelly killed. Puppy-mill breeders force dogs to reproduce repeatedly until their bodies wear out from the strain of being continually pregnant in such impoverished, harsh conditions. Imagine being forced to live amid your own waste, with pus-filled wounds, agonizing ear infections, and deadly parasites-this is the reality of life in a puppy mill. Dogs coming from these horrific compounds are often denied needed veterinary care and deprived of any semblance of socialization.
Kept in cramped wooden hutches with wire flooring, in small pens, or chained to trees with little to no shelter from the elements, they suffer from illnesses and injuries. PETA has exposed breeders who keep dogs confined to filthy cages that are barely larger than their own bodies, causing them extreme suffering and distress. The dog-breeding industry includes puppy mills-hellish mass-breeding facilities in which dogs are treated like puppy-producing machines and never given any love or attention or even the opportunity to stretch their legs. Since millions of dogs suffer and die every year because no suitable homes exist for them, breeding a dog even once is irresponsible and unethical. Some of these dogs will end up in animal shelters, but millions of others will suffer and die alone and uncounted every year-after being hit by cars or attacked by other animals, succumbing to disease or the elements, or enduring other awful fates. But many animals who are purchased on a whim end up neglected or abandoned after their novelty wears off and the people who bought them realize how much work, time, and expense is involved in caring for a living, feeling being. When trends arise around particular breeds-such as the craze for huskies fueled by HBO’s Game of Thrones-breeders churn out dogs to make money and accommodate humans’ desire to be part of the most recent fad. Breeders don’t see dogs as individuals with personalities and specific needs-they just see dollar signs. Every time a dog is bred, homeless dogs lose the opportunity to have a good life.įew, if any, breeders require that the puppies they sell be spayed or neutered, so they would soon be able to have litters of their own, adding to the overpopulation crisis. Of the millions of animals who enter shelters each year, about half must be euthanized for humane reasons or because no suitable homes exist for them. On any given day in the U.S., an estimated 70 million homeless dogs and cats are struggling to survive. There’s no excuse for bringing more puppies into the world. How are dog breeders exacerbating the overpopulation crisis? In this industry, many dogs are kept in hutches, crates, and cages, where they’re in constant isolation, never experiencing the affection of a loving family. Dog breeders treat living individuals as commodities to be genetically manipulated for profit. Regardless of size, every breeder is responsible for exacerbating the overpopulation crisis.īreeding dogs is cruel and irresponsible, especially given the extensiveness of companion animal overpopulation. Some may be small-time “backyard” operations, whereas others are filthy industrial-sized puppy mills. What’s a dog breeder?Īnyone who forces dogs to reproduce in order to make a profit is a breeder. Every time a breeder brings another puppy into the world, a dog waiting in an animal shelter or struggling to survive on the streets loses a chance at finding a loving home.
Simple: Breeding animals is killing them. Why does PETA work so hard to take down dog breeders and puppy mills?
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