Pet Stores and Animal Shelters?
I have never purchased a dog from a pet store, but I am not opposed to it. I stongly support animal shelters and believe in what they do for animals and am particularly much against puppy mills but here is my question . .
Why don't the puppies at the pet store deserve a good home, and a accident at a good life? Some of you are so against pet stores and bash people for proverb that they are going to purchase an animal from one, and I understand that purchasing an animal from a pet store is contributing to puppy mills but that fact is that these puppies need homes to and until ALL puppy mills are shut down, these puppies and other animals entail a home to.
Pet store or animal shelter, all animals deserve a loving home.
Ditto what Meaghan said.
Also, purchasing a puppy for a pet store just opens up a spot for another mill puppy to be bred. So you are not "saving" a puppy, you are sentencing it's mother and father to a lifetime of maltreat, and another litter of puppy mill puppies to be bred and entering the system. The puppy mills will NEVER be shut down until they stop making a profit with our money. Period.
Why do you feel responsible breeders are contributing to animal overpopulation?
It is BYBers and puppy mills and people who just don't furnish a dam whether there dog get pregnant or not..
I enjoy 11 Big Beautiful Standard Poodles, 7 of which are females and you will never see a unwanted puppy come out of my kennel. Also none of my dogs are spayed or neutered either. In the last 10 years I enjoy had 4 litters of puppies and they went to other breeders around the world or to people whom are into showing. There is perchance 5 of them that became just a all around relatives pet.
So DON"T blame us for the actions of others.
"until ALL puppy mills are shut down, these puppies and other animals necessitate a home to."
Thats exactly it. If you keep buying puppies from them it will NEVER shut down!
What do you muse? They will just decide to stop one day? I be determined think! There making LOTS of money.they will NOT shut down until people stop buying there runts.
NO Responsible breeders DO NOT contribute to the over population. Responsible breeders breed pure bred dogs and try and upgrade the breed. Puppy mills breed MUTTS that are unhealthy. That usually end up surrounded by shelters.
Next time before posting, think first. Thanks
So sweetie i am sorry but your way WRONG!
~ OK next why did you ask this question? Just cause you know that YOUR wrong about the puppy mills you shift over to breeders? Listen Honey your question was about pet stores we answered. You where on earth WRONG. Thank you.
~Maybe irresponsible owners shouldn't own animals Hmm. . . . .
I think that all dogs deserve a correct home weather they are from a pet store, a breeder, or a shelter. I think that its up to the pet stores to ensure that they don't get puppies (or any animal for that matter) from a BYB. I instinctively try and adopt from a shelter; I don't care about getting a specific breed and it breaks my heart knowing that about 4 million dogs are put down every year because they can't find a domestic.
Yes! All animals do deserve a loving home. I comprehend that a lot of pet stores R not good places to purchase a pet, BUT there R exceptions. My boss(a Vet)owned a pet store & he also breeds Bulldogs. (French & English)He sold these dogs through the store, fluently these dogs were in good shape. So I consider it's o.k. to buy pets from a pet store under certain circumstances.
Supply and demand. If demand for these puppies go down, the puppy mills can slowly (hopefully) go out of business. One puppy deserves love just as much as the subsequent, but for every puppy that's bought from the pet store, its abused mother (who also deserves love) gets to pop one more out.
Answers: Buying pet store puppies keep puppy mills in business. They won't shut down if you hold on to giving them your money.
When you buy a puppy in a pet store, they promptly get replaced by another puppy mill puppy, but if you got your dog from a reputable breeder or from a shelter after the puppy mills aren't making money and won't have any reason to keep it up.
Yes all puppies need homes. But consider for a moment what these people due to their dogs, they are crammed within small cages and are bred over and over until they are discarded. Feel sorry for those poor dogs, they need a chance at a moral life also. I would not give any puppy mill one penny, I will give as much as possible to any organization that will shut them down and save the dogs.
Honey, responsible breeders DO NOT contribute to the dog overpopulation. All of their pups go to good homes, and if that domestic cannot have the dog anymore, for whatever reason, the dog go back to the breeder.
All the dogs in shelters did not come from responsible breeders. They came from irresponsible owners.
And I'll be damned whether my choice of dog will be constrained by an irresponsible owner. I know what I want in a dog, and it cannot be found at a shelter. I buy from responsible breeders, and in all my years on this globe, I have never heard of any argument that has changed my intellect.
Now, about pet stores. Do those puppies "deserve" a good home? No. They "deserved" never to be born on the first place. If you buy from a pet store, adjectives you are guaranteeing is that there will be another puppy born in horrible conditions that will take that one's place.
You love animals? Don't buy from pet stores. Easy!
