dirtysquatter:

maggie-diana:

siberianhuskylover:

Never buy a puppy from a pet shop, ads in the newspaper or online, because they most likely come from places like this. Puppy farms keep their dogs in small confined cages or pens, where they are forced to produce litter after litter, until they get to an age where their bodies can no long produce any more litters. Then they are killed.

Dogs that are purchased from puppy mills will either grow up to have health issues or have behaviour issues, because they have not been socialised properly due to living in a filthy pen and a pet shop window. Puppy farms only breed because of demand, so make sure that when you’re going to adopt your puppy, that you go and view the breeder’s property to make sure that the puppies and parents are well looked after and healthy, and make sure that they aren’t living in conditions like the puppies in these photos. Buy from a registered reputable breeder or even better adopt.

Help ban puppy farms buy no supporting the trade. 

Adopt, don’t shop!

Nobody needs to buy an animal. There are millions of healthy dogs put down every day. If you buy an animal, even from a “respectable breeder” you are just enforcing the concept of animals as commodities, that they are our’s to be bought and sold. Animals exist for their own purposes, they are not our’s to exploit or make profit from.

Don’t shop or buy while shelter animals die!

^ What Kaden said

My mother in law just adopted a female Dogue de Bordeaux from a Rescue. She was found roaming in the woods still actively producing milk, teats hanging very low (near her paws) and with a fresh/new vaginal prolapse, it seems like she was kicked out once her last litter of puppies were born. Either due to her age (maybe 6 years old) or because her last litter of puppies could have had defects. All her teeth are broken because chains were put in her mouth to force her to mate with another dog, they chained her up so she wouldn’t be able to move. Luckily, she was found and taken to the rescue where she was lovingly cared for until a forever home was found for her. The lady who found her spent two weeks cleansing her skin of blackheads, dirt and grime that had built up. Farms like this are disgusting.