Do not Support Puppy Mills, Adopt Foreclosure Pets Instead

Posted by jkingstone

If you are buying pups from a pet store, you could be supporting puppy mills that breed pups only for money. Adopt foreclosure pets instead and you would be helping children and families that had to part with their pets because they lost their homes. Knowing that their pets are in the hands of pet-loving people like you would assuage their pain of foreclosure and separation from their pets.

If you buy pups from pet stores that get their supply from large-scale puppy mills, you may be buying a pup that has emotional and health problems since most of these breeding facilities put their dogs in cages during their entire lives.

Also, if people stop buying pups from pet stores affiliated with puppy mills, these mills will eventually lose money and stop breeding pups.

According to Beau Archer, spokesperson for the Humane Society of the U.S., puppy mills do not care about the conditions of their dogs. Even if some of them have the proper registration from pet organizations or from the USDA, they just do the minimum requirements to cut costs.

Many puppy mills do not properly handle pups during their first weeks of life, resulting into pups with poor physical and emotional health. A lot of foreclosure pets have even better temperaments because they have been cared for lovingly by their pet owners.

According to veterinarian and behaviorist Lore Haug, who works with South Texas Veterinary Behavior Services, the way puppies are raised affects how they adapt to new homes. Haug explained that puppies that have not been exposed to other animals and people and to different sights and sounds will have a difficult time in adjusting to new environments.

In addition to adopting pets from animal shelters, you can also help spread the word about puppy mills by visiting the website of the HSUS and explore how you can help stop the production of pups by greedy breeders.

You can also donate money, your time or your skill to your county animal control center or to animal shelters in your area. During these times when a lot of abandoned animals are being discovered by people who buy foreclosed homes for sale, shelters need all the help they can get.

The soaring number of foreclosure pets is one clear sign of the difficulties faced by a lot of families. Fostering some pets or making a donation to shelters are two of the ways you can spread kindness in times of adversity.

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