Comments on: Puppy Mills- A life of hell

By: Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills!

Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills! — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:31:37 +0000

Stay away from PuppiesEverything.ca – the “Pet Store” in Stratford, ON on Corcoran Street.The owner will proudly take you on tours of their makeshift “pet store” telling the world “Yes, I am a puppy mill!”and their “quarantine” area. They think they’re in the animal business, what they’re NOT is qualfied in any veterinary sense to be keeping the ill ones in their back room instead of sending them to an animal clinic. They lie to their customers and let the dogs die from malnutrition/ being taken from their mothers too soon, and that’s only what happened to me after we put a downpayment on a dog and went back to get it. The owner’s wife is aggressive and violent and says the Perth SPCA “Are her best friends” where complaints being filed are concerned. Don’t buy their animals and for God’s sake, breeders, sell them privately and humanely! They’re famous for taking your *downpayment* and then accepting higher prices from other buyers. Suddenly, your dog is “dead” when you go in to get it!
If you go into these places and the animals look unhealthy, SPCA says to call them, that they aren’t allowed to go in without *cause*. But if SPCA is the “best friend” of the perpetrators, then don’t expect anyone to look after the animals’ health and welfare!
What I have is a heartbroken kid who wanted to work to buy a puppy who has been devastated by this unprofessional dump’s cruelty and desperation for money!

By: hazel

hazel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:32:06 +0000

I love this little doggie named Ladybird. Her owner found her on the side of a rural road barely breathing. She took her into the vet and the vet concluded she had been a breeder for a puppy mill. She was old by this point and they just tossed her out. Watching this dog learn to come out of her shell and become affectionate and trusting again was a real blessing. I still get all snotty just thinking about her lifetime in a cage. Oh btw Ladybird taught me you can teach an old dog new tricks. There’s hope for these dogs, if we can just get to them.

Thanks Rose for bringing this very serious topic up.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:58:37 +0000

Puppy mills are absolutely horrific. I have a very strict policy that any pets my family gets are rescues. One of our dogs is a rescued greyhound, our other dog was adopted from a no-kill shelter. Our cats were adopted from the same shelter.

Along with signing the pledge, adopting from or donating to no-kill shelters is very important.

I’m not sure what the numbers are here in Washington regarding puppy mills, but I do know that no-kill shelters are on the rise.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:57:30 +0000

I signed the pledge.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:46:43 +0000

I signed the pledge also, Rose. Puppy mills are shameful.