Dog Town Canine Rescue
"If you are not a part of the solution you are a part of the problem" - Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
THE PET STORE - PUPPY MILL CONNECTION (what the owners of Lil' Pups and PuppyTown do NOT want you to know!)
Sadly, Carson City now has the disgrace of having two puppy stores. Contrary to what their employees will tell you, they get their "inventory" from puppy mills. What is a puppy mill, you may ask? Well take a deep breath and check out these websites to be enlightened:
Please educate yourself and act according to your conscience.
Even if your puppy is healthy, please consider the life of hell
that puppy's parents are living, imprisoned in a filthy puppy
Even if your puppy is healthy, please consider the life of hell
that puppy's parents are living, imprisoned in a filthy puppy
mill.
Fact: Pet stores buy their puppies from PUPPY MILLS!
WHEN YOU BUY A PUPPY FROM A PET STORE, YOU ARE NOT RESCUING IT!
YOU ARE KEEPING A FLESH PEDDLER IN BUSINESS.
Puppy mills are distinguished by their inhumane conditions and the constant breeding of unhealthy and genetically defective dogs solely for profit.
Very often the dogs in puppymills are covered with matted, filthy hair, their teeth are rotting and their eyes have ulcers. We have seen many dogs whose jaws have rotted because of tooth decay.
Very often there is no heat or air-conditioning in a puppymill. The dogs freeze in the winter and die of heat stroke in the summer. Puppies "cook" on the wires of the cages in the summer.
Female dogs are usually bred the first time they come into heat and are bred every heat cycle. They are bred until their poor worn out bodies can't reproduce any longer and then they are killed. Often they are killed by being bashed in the head with a rock or shot. Sometimes they are sold to laboratories or dumped. This is often by the time they reach five years old.
Buying a puppy in a pet store has significant risks for the purchaser and their family. A state funded survey in California found that nearly half of the puppies sold in pet stores were sick or incubating diseases. This doesn't count the ones suffering from genetic diseases. Imagine bringing a puppy home from a pet store only to have it die from parvo and cost thousands of dollars in vet expenses because of genetic problems like hip dysplasia.
AKC DOESN'T MEAN SHIT!
The dogs are kept in small wire cages for their entire lives. They are almost never allowed out. They never touch solid ground or grass to run and play.
Many of the dogs are injured in fights that occur in the cramped cages from which there is no escape.
Many dogs lose feet and legs when they are caught in the wire floors of the cages and cut off as the dog struggles to free themselves.
All of the facilities shown above sold puppies that were registered by the AKC. The AKC says that they inspect facilities when more than six or seven litters are born in a year. Did the AKC inspectors see these places? These kennels were both covered under federal and state laws. Did the federal and state inspector see these conditions? Did all of the people who should protect the dogs walk away from the dogs who were suffering?
