I hope she makes it.
This comment was made by one of the operators of Penny Angels Beagle Rescue as they met a six year old female dog that had just arrived at their location. This little Beagle was in very poor condition because she had spent her entire life as a breeder dog in a puppy mill.
The rescue volunteers named her Hope and began to efforts to save her life. They were very concerned as another Beagle pulled with Hope had died en route to the rescue. Hope recovered from her years of neglect and was adopted into a loving home.
She was one of the fortunate dogs to make it out of a puppy mill. Thousands of others are not so lucky and die at the puppy mills.
A puppy mill is a facility where dogs are bred excessively without regard to the well-being of the puppies and especially the mother dogs. Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has one of the largest concentrations of puppy mills in the United States. A great number of these inhumane operations are run by the Amish people.
The Main Line Animal Rescue of Pennsylvania conducted an investigation that revealed horrific conditions at the Amish puppy mills. They found adult dogs and puppies kept in wire cages that are stacked on top of each other. The dogs are not let out and are forced to relieve themselves in the cage with the waste matter falling on the dogs beneath them. The puppies only leave the cage when they are ready to be sold.
Their mothers are confined to the cages for their entire lives. Sometimes they are placed with dogs that attack them. They receive no medical care and can be chemically-induced to go into heat cycles. The dogs suffer through caesarian sections performed by Amish farmers who have absolutely no medical training. The farmers often debark the dogs by shoving metal rods down the dog’s throat. This practice breaks the dog’s teeth and is done without anesthesia. Debarking is done to help conceal the number of dogs kept at a given location. Some puppy mills have been found to have over five hundred dogs on the premises.
Once a female dog reaches an age when her puppy-production decreases and she is no longer profitable, she can be sold at auction to other breeders, euthanized by drugs, shot or gassed to death. A lucky few are saved by rescue groups. The rest die without ever knowing the joy of playing or having a warm comfortable bed. They never had enough to eat or have the experience of being loved.
Due to regulations recently passed in Pennsylvania regarding puppy mills, the Amish have begun establishing their disgusting facilities in Delaware, Maryland and other states.
Buying puppies from pet shops creates an easy, profitable business for the Amish. Please pass this entry along to your friends or to anyone considering purchasing a dog. While the Amish are collecting money from the suffering of dogs in their puppy mills, millions of wonderful dogs are killed in the shelters because of the lack of homes.
If you would like to learn more about puppy mills, visit Awareness Day or do a search of the phrase “puppy mills” to learn more about this horrid business.
Kathy Kerr - My name is Kathy Kerr and I have been writing since 1994. I have composed articles for the Journal Register Company as well the content ...
