Grr, a girl in my class went to view some puppies at **** on Sunday. She was like "aww they were well cute, some of them weren't old enough to go to their homes yet" and I was like "What were their parents like?" so she replied to me "Oh you don't get to see them, they aren't with the puppies"

...... I honestly couldn't speak to her. I tried explaining about puppy farms, and I told her to research them on the internet, but she won't.

she was saying how cute they looked in the little rooms, all jumping up at the door to get out. I was like "Yeah I think i'd want to get out if I was in there"

They don't have any outside runs, they're just kept in little rooms with wood shavings on the floor. I'm pretty sure dogs don't need wood shavings.

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these puppy farmers make me sick,there is also breeders selling puppies saying they are biewers yorshire terrier,they are breeding a shih tzu with a yorkie because this crossing holds a piebald gene.then breeding them till they get the color of black/white/gold and then tell the public they are a biewer,they say they are ppr reg or dlr and its a known fact that this reg is what the majority of puppy farmers use,these pedgrees and papers are made up names of anything then placed on paper as the heratage of puppies,grrrr it makes me mad.

Thanx for the links, these people make me so angry

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i too know of this mistique you should open a new thread about these with them being th new on breed on the market to make people aware as the lady that bought one is on this site and intends to try breed them herself she is in on the circle of deceit

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I attended a protest last month, at the leeds store of DOGS4US, UNBELIEVABLE we handed out leaflets to people entering the store a few sat in the car park, read it and turned round and drove straight out sadly there were lots that still went in and bought these puppies, yes you want to go in and buy them to get them out of the horrible situation but we would just be feeding these puppy farmers with money to keep farming.

It's amazing how many people don't know what a puppy mill is. My daughter Katie is a pre-vet student. She did a speech on puppy mills for her public speaking class. Some students actually asked her if they were like hamster cages with wheels!mad: Needless to say her speech gave them the correct information. She got points taken off because she went over the time limit. I told her better to get the information out there.
There are places up north (Pennsylvannia for example) that think of dogs and puppies as livestock. Therefore they treat them horribly. Even livestock should be treated humanely! The whole concept makes up ill.

These poor wee animal are just POUND SIGNS to these people. I'm really glad Bailey was alright in the end. x

It was so sad reading Baileys story. Bailey was one of the lucky ones getting yourself as his owner
Most that are taken back are just PTS as it would start eating into their profits if they started treating all their sick puppies.
There should be a Law against these places and the General Public really need educated.

A rescue home is a great place to get a dog from

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There are many puppy farms in South Wales where I live the welsh assembly gives these farmers money to actually do this ,
We have tried many ways to close them down but to no avail It makes me sick as these puppies are just locked away in little dark places no mum to keep them company the mother never sees the light of day most times never has a human touch of comfort.
I belong to Bichon Rescue and the number of dogs that i have had
to re home most have problems and most come from these puppy farms.
I have 3 with me and this is their forever home now as all have problems and cant be re homed with anyone else.
All I can do is keep plodding on with this stupid goverment and try and do my best to stop all this