Puppystores care about PROFIT...i already listed some of those outrageous sales prices!
puppies get basic vet care from a vet who works deals out with the store. it costs the store $5 a puppy for their 2 weekly "once over" and then a huge discount on shots. in exchange the puppystore reccomends that vet for your puppy after the sale... (vets are business men too)
if a puppy is VERY sick they would rather let it die in the back than deal with vet costs...
many puppy stores have their own "medical kit" (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ILLEGAL IN MOST STATES! medication MUST be perscribed by a vet for a specific puppy, puppy shop owners/workers are breaking the law self treating their animals)
but its CHEAPER to treat a ringworm case with some athletes foot cream than have the vet look, its cheaper to treat that eye infection with a little human ointment than get the stuff from the vet...its less hassle to give the puppy sub q fluids yourself...(despite this being incredibly dangerous!) and its easier to let it die and claim your money back than try and have the vet treat it.
this is not an exageration
-pet stores forge documents.
one store i worked at had a case of "puppy illness" this was a bull terrier the store owner had paid big bucks for, a high ticket dog...and hunte was refusing to refund without a vets cert that the dog was sick when it arrived.
so off the puppy whent to the vets, the next day 2 other puppies form the same batch fell sick...same symptms...but they were "cheap" no need for vet care, well find out whats wrong with the expensive one and treat them all the same. 2 days later puppy #2 died, the next day #3, the stentch unmistakable, Parvo (and anyone thats ever smelt a puppy dying of parvo can tell you...THAT is the smell of death...its horrible!)
anyways, the following day a fax comes through...the bull terrier had died at the vets office of parvo (SUPRISE).
now petsotres have a book, mandated by each state, in this book ALL the puppies comming in have the information entered, the shipping number, the distributor (please note hunte is a distributor not a mill, there are no litters born on hunte property!)
the origional "breeder", USDA registration numbers, vets records ect.
this is the book that the USDA inspector looks at on every visit to make sure theres nothign crazy going on.
strangely enough, after a confirmed parvo case, the page that this and the other 2 puppies that passed away of parvo, along with 5 other pupes was suddenly GONE and rewritten...suddenly the 3 dead dogs NEVER EXISTED...they were removed from the computer, from the system and the official report was destroyed.
the owner would rather cover up a hihgly contagious dises than shut down for the mandetory 3 days for proper cleaning.
again this is not "extreemist" this stuff happend on a daily basis, cooking the books, changing descriptions, forging vets signatures, self medicating...all illegal, immoral and dangerous.
(that sotre was the one that broke me #6 and i was done, i couldnt even do the undercover stuff anymore...i filled my last report!...i couldnt handle seeing those dogs as nothing more than little meat sacks filled with money...)
-pet stores do NOT care about the puppy or YOU!
as long as you buy a puppy they dont care if itll be a good match for the family, they dont care what'll happen to the dog after it leaves the store, and they dont care whether 3 months down the line your new puppy, get sick, develops a temperment issue or genetic condition...
seeing a family with a toddler looking for a "hypoalergenic dog" take home a lab because "labs dont shed much and they dont get that big" (the lab was also priced at $1800 and pet store associates get paid a nice commission on the puppy sales...that was an extrea $180 to her pay check.
everyone wanted to sell the expensive ones...cause it was more money for them...
an APBT (who had had to be moved into a pen alone because he was "overly playfull" with his kennel mates, going home to a family with 4 other dogs (he was put down 6 months later when he tore their poodle apart)
or a first time dog owner being sent home with a DOGO because she "liked the look of cropped ears and wanted a "scary looking breed" He turned up in a shelter about a year later if i recal because she couldnt handle how agressive he was. (the breeds known for their protectivness!)
in short...the puppystore is a BUISNESS...while some of the workers care..the buisness itself doesnt...
A Distributor:
the likes of HUNTE corp
- these places are the middle men.
they buy puppies from mills and ship them all over the country to puppy stores.
- the facilities are kept SPOTLESS...they have to be, distributors are under much stricter laws than the breeding facilities or petstores due to the very high turnover rate.
puppies are kept in "batches" as they call them, (they are actually kept with their littermates in breed specific groupings for "ease of ordering") in tiled runs. no toys, no blankets, everything is STERILE,
the facilities smell like BLEACH constantly, so much so that if your not used to the smell of chlorine it does make your eyes water.
they look lovely...but the puppies tend to huddle together in the corner of the small bright white runs, terrified.
most of them are between 6 and 7 weeks of age, the "optimal age" this is ILLEGAL, puppies are not to be sold untill 8 weeks, however "what the usda doesnt know" as it was put to me by one very fancy suited man. "if we buy them at 8 weeks there usually 10 weeks before they get to the petstores...people dont want 10week old puppies they want them tiny and new!"
(not lying direct quote! and the same attitude form the 3 ive taken multiple visist to)
- they have their own vet...a vet whos paid big bucks to make sure all their puppies are "healthy" this doesnt mean the dogs actually are, it just means the papers their shipped out with SAY they are.
(youd be amazed at how many puppies arrive at the store sick! and how many puppystore owners send back because they LOOK sick on arrival)
while at these distributors the puppies recive no hands on unless its to take them to the vets table.
these corporations are also in it for the profit. they make a tiny amount off each compared to the petstore (often buying entire litters for around $25-$50 a puppy and selling for double to tripple) BUT they have such a fast and massive turn around that they make a huge amount of money
The Puppymill:
now crush, i know you like to tell yourself that the images posted of mills are actually 3rd world countries because it makes YOU feel better, but i assure you...300 visits down and there all the same...ive never been to a puppy mill outside of the USA, but PA is actually one of the HUGE puppymill states.
ill give a description of my first ever visit...its a doozy.
we pull up the little country road in PA amish country...absolutly adorable, feilds of crops, then a huge barn, then the main house...this was it... behind the house there was another very large barn and a 8ft tall fence, we couldnt see beyond the fence at that point.
so far everything looked so picturesque, beutiful house, stunning amish barn, little amish children chasing chickens round the yard and a stunning buggy being polished up...
then the father and some come out and greet us and walk us towards the fence. the first thing i noticed as we got closer was the smell...now im no stranger to feces but this wasnt manure...this was dog poop. and the sound of the occasional bark and yip was heard through the fence...
"wow its quiet" one of the workers with me mentions"
"yeah we debark em all so they cant cause a fuss!" his son replied.
my heart sank before we even opend the gate...i dont belive in debarking when its doen by a vet in strictly sanitized conditions and they "did it themselves"
gate opend with ease...and this lovely little picturesque amish world turned suddenly into this heart wretching grey scale horror
infront of me were wire rabbit cages...not runs, not even dog crates, WIRE RABBIT CAGES, stacked 3 high, they had wire floors and no catch pans. in one corner of each run was a peice of plywood "thats cause the wire hurts their feet" the kid tells me when he noticed me looking"
the dogs on the bottom of the stack looked horrendous, the urine and poop form the cages above them was dropping down through. they were matted and smelt like a sewage plant.
cages barely big enough for a pair of bunnies held 6 or 7 dogs.
all of them were terrified and showed it in different ways...some would cower, others would shift as far back in the cage as possible, while others would lundge ferociously at the wire shaking it and snarling...
*more*
puppies get basic vet care from a vet who works deals out with the store. it costs the store $5 a puppy for their 2 weekly "once over" and then a huge discount on shots. in exchange the puppystore reccomends that vet for your puppy after the sale... (vets are business men too)
if a puppy is VERY sick they would rather let it die in the back than deal with vet costs...
many puppy stores have their own "medical kit" (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ILLEGAL IN MOST STATES! medication MUST be perscribed by a vet for a specific puppy, puppy shop owners/workers are breaking the law self treating their animals)
but its CHEAPER to treat a ringworm case with some athletes foot cream than have the vet look, its cheaper to treat that eye infection with a little human ointment than get the stuff from the vet...its less hassle to give the puppy sub q fluids yourself...(despite this being incredibly dangerous!) and its easier to let it die and claim your money back than try and have the vet treat it.
this is not an exageration
-pet stores forge documents.
one store i worked at had a case of "puppy illness" this was a bull terrier the store owner had paid big bucks for, a high ticket dog...and hunte was refusing to refund without a vets cert that the dog was sick when it arrived.
so off the puppy whent to the vets, the next day 2 other puppies form the same batch fell sick...same symptms...but they were "cheap" no need for vet care, well find out whats wrong with the expensive one and treat them all the same. 2 days later puppy #2 died, the next day #3, the stentch unmistakable, Parvo (and anyone thats ever smelt a puppy dying of parvo can tell you...THAT is the smell of death...its horrible!)
anyways, the following day a fax comes through...the bull terrier had died at the vets office of parvo (SUPRISE).
now petsotres have a book, mandated by each state, in this book ALL the puppies comming in have the information entered, the shipping number, the distributor (please note hunte is a distributor not a mill, there are no litters born on hunte property!)
the origional "breeder", USDA registration numbers, vets records ect.
this is the book that the USDA inspector looks at on every visit to make sure theres nothign crazy going on.
strangely enough, after a confirmed parvo case, the page that this and the other 2 puppies that passed away of parvo, along with 5 other pupes was suddenly GONE and rewritten...suddenly the 3 dead dogs NEVER EXISTED...they were removed from the computer, from the system and the official report was destroyed.
the owner would rather cover up a hihgly contagious dises than shut down for the mandetory 3 days for proper cleaning.
again this is not "extreemist" this stuff happend on a daily basis, cooking the books, changing descriptions, forging vets signatures, self medicating...all illegal, immoral and dangerous.
(that sotre was the one that broke me #6 and i was done, i couldnt even do the undercover stuff anymore...i filled my last report!...i couldnt handle seeing those dogs as nothing more than little meat sacks filled with money...)
-pet stores do NOT care about the puppy or YOU!
as long as you buy a puppy they dont care if itll be a good match for the family, they dont care what'll happen to the dog after it leaves the store, and they dont care whether 3 months down the line your new puppy, get sick, develops a temperment issue or genetic condition...
seeing a family with a toddler looking for a "hypoalergenic dog" take home a lab because "labs dont shed much and they dont get that big" (the lab was also priced at $1800 and pet store associates get paid a nice commission on the puppy sales...that was an extrea $180 to her pay check.
everyone wanted to sell the expensive ones...cause it was more money for them...
an APBT (who had had to be moved into a pen alone because he was "overly playfull" with his kennel mates, going home to a family with 4 other dogs (he was put down 6 months later when he tore their poodle apart)
or a first time dog owner being sent home with a DOGO because she "liked the look of cropped ears and wanted a "scary looking breed" He turned up in a shelter about a year later if i recal because she couldnt handle how agressive he was. (the breeds known for their protectivness!)
in short...the puppystore is a BUISNESS...while some of the workers care..the buisness itself doesnt...
A Distributor:
the likes of HUNTE corp
- these places are the middle men.
they buy puppies from mills and ship them all over the country to puppy stores.
- the facilities are kept SPOTLESS...they have to be, distributors are under much stricter laws than the breeding facilities or petstores due to the very high turnover rate.
puppies are kept in "batches" as they call them, (they are actually kept with their littermates in breed specific groupings for "ease of ordering") in tiled runs. no toys, no blankets, everything is STERILE,
the facilities smell like BLEACH constantly, so much so that if your not used to the smell of chlorine it does make your eyes water.
they look lovely...but the puppies tend to huddle together in the corner of the small bright white runs, terrified.
most of them are between 6 and 7 weeks of age, the "optimal age" this is ILLEGAL, puppies are not to be sold untill 8 weeks, however "what the usda doesnt know" as it was put to me by one very fancy suited man. "if we buy them at 8 weeks there usually 10 weeks before they get to the petstores...people dont want 10week old puppies they want them tiny and new!"
(not lying direct quote! and the same attitude form the 3 ive taken multiple visist to)
- they have their own vet...a vet whos paid big bucks to make sure all their puppies are "healthy" this doesnt mean the dogs actually are, it just means the papers their shipped out with SAY they are.
(youd be amazed at how many puppies arrive at the store sick! and how many puppystore owners send back because they LOOK sick on arrival)
while at these distributors the puppies recive no hands on unless its to take them to the vets table.
these corporations are also in it for the profit. they make a tiny amount off each compared to the petstore (often buying entire litters for around $25-$50 a puppy and selling for double to tripple) BUT they have such a fast and massive turn around that they make a huge amount of money
The Puppymill:
now crush, i know you like to tell yourself that the images posted of mills are actually 3rd world countries because it makes YOU feel better, but i assure you...300 visits down and there all the same...ive never been to a puppy mill outside of the USA, but PA is actually one of the HUGE puppymill states.
ill give a description of my first ever visit...its a doozy.
we pull up the little country road in PA amish country...absolutly adorable, feilds of crops, then a huge barn, then the main house...this was it... behind the house there was another very large barn and a 8ft tall fence, we couldnt see beyond the fence at that point.
so far everything looked so picturesque, beutiful house, stunning amish barn, little amish children chasing chickens round the yard and a stunning buggy being polished up...
then the father and some come out and greet us and walk us towards the fence. the first thing i noticed as we got closer was the smell...now im no stranger to feces but this wasnt manure...this was dog poop. and the sound of the occasional bark and yip was heard through the fence...
"wow its quiet" one of the workers with me mentions"
"yeah we debark em all so they cant cause a fuss!" his son replied.
my heart sank before we even opend the gate...i dont belive in debarking when its doen by a vet in strictly sanitized conditions and they "did it themselves"
gate opend with ease...and this lovely little picturesque amish world turned suddenly into this heart wretching grey scale horror
infront of me were wire rabbit cages...not runs, not even dog crates, WIRE RABBIT CAGES, stacked 3 high, they had wire floors and no catch pans. in one corner of each run was a peice of plywood "thats cause the wire hurts their feet" the kid tells me when he noticed me looking"
the dogs on the bottom of the stack looked horrendous, the urine and poop form the cages above them was dropping down through. they were matted and smelt like a sewage plant.
cages barely big enough for a pair of bunnies held 6 or 7 dogs.
all of them were terrified and showed it in different ways...some would cower, others would shift as far back in the cage as possible, while others would lundge ferociously at the wire shaking it and snarling...
*more*
