I went into Bird World/Pet Village today and was absolutely APPALLED. They had about 18-20 puppies crammed into cages. The puppies hair was falling out and they were obviously from a puppy mills. The older ones were all but unresponsive, and were already exhibiting some serious behavioral problems.\r
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Just a statistic for you -About 99% of dogs sold in pet stores are from puppy mills -the absolute WORST place to get a dog from.\r
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Puppy mills are large-scale dog breeding facilities that operate under substandard breeding conditions (like tiny cages which cause puppies and dogs to defecate on top of one another), causing the development of chronic health problems, temperament issues, and hereditary defects. These so-called ""breeders"" treat their dogs as cash crops.\r
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Please do not support the inhumane and cruel treatment of dogs. Do not support Pet Village or any other pet store that sells dogs. These dogs almost invariably come from puppy mills.\r
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Do some research and find a breeder that lives close by. Breeders dogs not only cost less (usually), but also have been socialized in a home environment, and are likely to be free from serious behavioral and hereditary defects which puppy mill (pet store) dogs have.\r
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Please DO NOT SUPPORT Pet Village. You might feel like you are rescuing a puppy, but really you are just incentivizing the cruel treatment of that puppys mother and father who live back at the mill. DON'T do it.\r
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Cons: Puppies have behavioral and (likely) genetic problems because they are produced in puppy mills
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