Check Out National Mill Dog Rescue & Breeder Release Adoption Service …..

Go to the websites for National Mill Dog Rescue and Breeder Release Adoption Service and see the appalling condition of dogs rescued from USDA licensed breeders. APHIS, charged with inspecting licensed facilities, has about 100 inspectors to oversee 11,000 facilities including breeders, circuses, zoos, research facilities, brokers and transporters. The number of facilities will increase by an estimated 5,000 soon due to regulations that now require licensing of breeders who sell dogs over the internet, by phone and mail. Even if APHIS had enough inspectors, the Animal Welfare Act they are charged with enforcing is vague and ineffective at best. It allows dogs to live their entire lives in stacked cages with wire bottoms where waste and urine rains dogs on dogs in lower cages, often blinding them and causing horrid skin conditions under their matted coats. The cages only have to be 6" longer than the dog from it's head to the base of it's tail. It allows temperature extremes, that in the case of extreme cold only have to be satisfied by providing "bedding" - like a cardboard box or newspaper. Food and water dishes only have to be cleaned every two weeks. Females are bred from their first heat and twice a year thereafter. We adopted an eight year old breeding female rescued from a USDA licensed breeder. When she was rescued from the monster who owned the puppy mill, she had no socialization to humans, a mouth full of rotted teeth, ears terribly damaged from years of untreated yeast infections, a belly full of mammary tumors, and atrophied hind legs that would barely hold her up. She only walked in circles because she'd been confined to a cage for eight years 24/7. She is still fearful of most humans and probably always will be. If you really care, you'll do some research into licensed puppy mills. Start with the websites I mentioned above. Also look at Humane Society and Last Chance for Animals. There's a wealth of facts available to anyone interested in seeing the real condition in licensed commercial breeding operations.