What is a puppy mill?
As a professional HOME
breeder my opinion of a puppy mill is ANY BREEDER
that dose not give their adults and puppies top
quality care and love. Any breeder that over breeds
their dogs, example a breeder that breeds their dogs every
heat cycle never giving them a rest.
example:
If there is a breeder that breeds in their home or has a
kennel and they have 2 females and 1 male but they breed
both your females every heat cycle from the time they
are 6-8 months until they are to old to breed they are a
puppy mill. Because they don't have their dogs best
interest in mind.. They are only thinking about the
money they can make.
When you are producing an innocent loving
creature it is your responsibility to make sure it had
the BEST of care and is taken care of from the time they
are born until they are no longer on this earth. Even
if they are placed/sold/adopted outside your home with
some one else.
It dose not matter if you have 1 dog or
500
(I would say any one
that had 500 dogs would most likely be a puppy mill no
one person could take care of that many dogs correctly.
It would take at least 400 people to care for that many
dogs correctly).
I have personally seen a so
called home breeder that I would call a puppy mill.
Weather it is a kennel or home breeder that is not a way
to tell if they are a puppy mill. There are 1000's of
puppy mills out there every where across America. The
only way to stop them is buy from a ethical breeder
that, offers a great health warranty, contact past puppy
parents and make sure they are breeding for QUALITY and
it they do genetic testing that would be great also. To
be honest I personally think only about 25% of breeders
do the genetic testing that they should.
I have been asked is some one owns a kennel dose that
make them a puppy mill. I would say NO just because some
one has a kennel dose not make them them a puppy mill.
You need to find out how many breeds they breed, how
many dogs they have and what type of care the parents
and puppies receive.
You can have a kennel and be a great responsible
breeder. But I have to say puppies that are raised in a
kennel tend to be NOT as socialized as a responsible
home breeders puppies, this is in my opinion only.
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