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Puppy Mill Research Paper

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Whenever I start to talk about my breeding/showing program, people automatically jump to the conclusion that I am a puppy miller. To me that is very hurtful and I take it offensively. A puppy mill is an establishment that breeds puppies to sell, typically on an intensive basis and in conditions regarded as inhumane. Me, as a breeder, I am there to improve the breed and higher the expectations and the breed standards, while letting the dogs live a healthy and happy lifestyle. My family, as most people with the same goals, we only breed once every couple of years. My family and I plan each litter carefully paying attention to genetics, health clearances, and pedigrees of the dogs being bred. Puppy millers are the complete opposite. They breed back to back to back litters, where when the bitch, the female dog, is done with one litter and is breed the next cycle that she has. This not only stresses the dog out, but takes a toll on the dogs body in the long run. And with the lack of attention that they give when they breed, they are most …show more content…

We want to make sure the mother is comfortable and we want to make sure nothing happens to the puppies. When you talk to any puppy miller they probably will say that they sacrifice their time and effort into the breeding of the dogs, but they will probably never talk to you about the long nights of keeping watch over their 5 litters at once. They just leave the mother by themselves and when they realize that the mother had her litter they just check to make sure everything is alive. They don’t care about the individual health of the puppy. I mean there are 6 more where that came from right? But of corse they will check the health of the mother because they don’t want to be out another source of their

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