What constitutes a Puppymill to you? - Page 2

Thanks, Mindhunt...

One thing I read includes breeders who sell puppies to dog brokers and pet stores as puppy mill breeders.  If by brokers they mean class B type brokers who sell  to labs, I would agree with that, as well as the ones who sell to pet stores, and add that to the very good definitions as already mentioned above. 

So this made me wonder:  Are puppies sold in pet shops in Europe and other places in the world as they are here? If puppies are sold in shops, are they as poorly bred as what is found in the pet shops in the USA?   In my travels I have just never gone into a pet shop outside of the USA.

Held:  I agree, hell on earth for the poor dogs and hopefully a special place in hell waiting for the breeders if there is any justice at all.

Hey, pale...

Next session with the shrink, look into your obsession with the anus.  What are you, a fifteen year old boy?  Can't see a mature man getting so wound up in the backside.  What's with ARSE?  Can't you spell it?

As far as your dog, any part of him, I don't think you have any dogs at all.  I've asked you repeatedly to prove how your dog is superior to anything else, but all you do is come back with your two-liners that make me laugh so hard it's all I can do to stay in my chair.  Do  you know anything else besides a**holes?

Can't show you mine...My dog isn't an "arsehole"!!

I'm rolling on the floor, laughing, waiting for your next ill mannered and low IQ attack!!!

A puppy mill to me is anyone who breeds for the sole purpose of adding to the bank account.

They don't work their dogs, they don't show their dogs, they don't really do anything except breed them and sell pups. You would have to be incredibly stupid not to pick them out.

You would also have to be pretty dense to not recognize the "rider". He is obviously the male member of the "tragic trio".

Rik 

Thanks People!!  I know this person who has 4 females, breeds them on every heat, including the 1st heat, sells the pups for $850.00. and then says she isn't a puppymill.  Oh and once "Mom" is pregnant she goes out in the barn for 60 days, comes in, has the pups, at 3 weeks Mom goes back out to the barn until she comes into heat again.  She also lets all the dogs, 4 female and 2 males "Run the yard as they do in the wild" and thinks she is doing the right think.   She has had 2 litters and 1 coming now that she doesn't know who got the female pregnant.  I told her she looks bad and now she is attacking me.  I believe she is a puppymil and all you answers (except the creep) tell me I am right.  Thanks ALL!!

I suppose there is no set definition of Puppy Mill, but it refers to a commercial breeder who is breeding for profit.  Signs of a puppy mill:

-Multiple breeds of dog, lots of dogs
-Does not test their breed, either health tests or show/work
-Bitches bred every heat
-Puppies available pretty much all the time!
-Sells to pet stores or dealers
-Has multiple breeding females
-Owns all the stud dogs (sometimes)

I like to see a breeder only having a litter once or twice a year, keeping dogs in their house and not just in kennels, and breeding for purpose.  If they cannot explain why they matched together the two dogs and their pedigrees, and why they hope to better the breed through it, they should not have bred them.  I also don't like to see repeat breedings, because if they are trying to "better the breed", why produce more of the same?

That lady, she should have an agriculture license and be reporting her income to the IRS.