How do you know if a breeder is really a puppy mill?

[Anonymous]

Rescues often only rescue resealable dogs. It’s a fact.

Puppy mills provide those dogs into the pipeline.

We have a rehomed dog from a private owner advertising for a new home. It’s literally the only way I knew the background of the dog and knew she was in need of a home and not a puppy mill reject swooped up by a rescue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rescues often only rescue resealable dogs. It’s a fact.

Puppy mills provide those dogs into the pipeline.

We have a rehomed dog from a private owner advertising for a new home. It’s literally the only way I knew the background of the dog and knew she was in need of a home and not a puppy mill reject swooped up by a rescue.

Re-sellable dogs. Hahaha!

[Anonymous]

Any breeder is technically a puppy mill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any breeder is technically a puppy mill.

No, and I REALLY don't like this way of thinking, it's one quick step to justifying getting a puppy from a mill. The mills are horrifically abusive, Google some of the horrors when they have been raided. Keeping dogs warehoused in cages soiling themselves without being able to even stand up while they breed them endlessly and basically torture them before they toss their bodies on a pile and get a new one is lightyears away from the ethical breeder who who has a small number of dogs in their home, carefully plans litters and evaluates genetics, and doesn't breeds their females young or often. There should be no confusion between these two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any breeder is technically a puppy mill.

No, and I REALLY don't like this way of thinking, it's one quick step to justifying getting a puppy from a mill. The mills are horrifically abusive, Google some of the horrors when they have been raided. Keeping dogs warehoused in cages soiling themselves without being able to even stand up while they breed them endlessly and basically torture them before they toss their bodies on a pile and get a new one is lightyears away from the ethical breeder who who has a small number of dogs in their home, carefully plans litters and evaluates genetics, and doesn't breeds their females young or often. There should be no confusion between these two.

+1. I posted in detail (on 4/19) about how we knew our breeder was not a puppy mill. There are plenty of good breeders out there who really love their dogs and the breed. It’s not fair at all to lump them in with puppy mills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any breeder is technically a puppy mill.

No, and I REALLY don't like this way of thinking, it's one quick step to justifying getting a puppy from a mill. The mills are horrifically abusive, Google some of the horrors when they have been raided. Keeping dogs warehoused in cages soiling themselves without being able to even stand up while they breed them endlessly and basically torture them before they toss their bodies on a pile and get a new one is lightyears away from the ethical breeder who who has a small number of dogs in their home, carefully plans litters and evaluates genetics, and doesn't breeds their females young or often. There should be no confusion between these two.

+1. I posted in detail (on 4/19) about how we knew our breeder was not a puppy mill. There are plenty of good breeders out there who really love their dogs and the breed. It’s not fair at all to lump them in with puppy mills.

+1, our breeder bred her dogs and only has a few litters a year. They live in the house, the dogs sleep in her bed, and she and her family care for the puppies and socialize with them in their home, with their family and their dogs. She posts all kinds of pictures to see where the dogs live. They are not in a separate building. They are not having multiple litters at once (except once she did by accident).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any breeder is technically a puppy mill.

No, and I REALLY don't like this way of thinking, it's one quick step to justifying getting a puppy from a mill. The mills are horrifically abusive, Google some of the horrors when they have been raided. Keeping dogs warehoused in cages soiling themselves without being able to even stand up while they breed them endlessly and basically torture them before they toss their bodies on a pile and get a new one is lightyears away from the ethical breeder who who has a small number of dogs in their home, carefully plans litters and evaluates genetics, and doesn't breeds their females young or often. There should be no confusion between these two.

+1. I posted in detail (on 4/19) about how we knew our breeder was not a puppy mill. There are plenty of good breeders out there who really love their dogs and the breed. It’s not fair at all to lump them in with puppy mills.

+1, our breeder bred her dogs and only has a few litters a year. They live in the house, the dogs sleep in her bed, and she and her family care for the puppies and socialize with them in their home, with their family and their dogs. She posts all kinds of pictures to see where the dogs live. They are not in a separate building. They are not having multiple litters at once (except once she did by accident).

You get a gold star