Puppy Mills are mass, commercial breeding ground in which the animals live under atrocious conditions for a huge profit (Turiano, The Cruelty Behind The Cuteness). There are over 10,000 Puppy Mills in the United States alone. Of those 10,000, only 3,000 are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Milani, Puppy Mills Research). Since over 7,000 Puppy Mills are unregulated, there are a lot of specific things about Puppy Mills that make them inadequate. Even though there is extensive research about Puppy Mills, not many people have actually ‘shone the light’ on the issue or done much about the issue. Research shows that there are poor living conditions, tough physical conditions, and possible medical conditions of puppies that live in…show more content… If said puppy does not have enough room to jump around they will more than likely have issues with growth-development. In Puppy Mills, not only do the puppies not have enough room to jump around, a lot of times they don’t even have enough room to walk. A chocolate Lab rescued from a breeding mill in Pennsylvania was doing nothing but walking in circles and at first you thought it was cute, until you realized that the dog was in such a small cage that is all it knew how to do. (Genzlinger, A Dog’s Life Behind Bars for…show more content… Obviously, hygiene is not as important to animals as it is humans but there is still a line that is clearly crossed in Puppy Mills. In the rescuing of puppies in a Puppy Mill in South Carolina there was so little room for each individual puppy that none of them were clean. Every animal’s fur was matted with urine and feces. This causes every animal in the Puppy Mill to have a pungent smell that cannot possibly be ignored by even the dogs themselves.
There are many physical conditions that puppies endure when they are kept in Puppy Mills. The problem with Puppy Mills is that even though the physical conditions are very poor and possibly life threatening, the owners of the Puppy Mills don’t care. Puppies that live in Puppy Mills are kept in wire kennels. These wire kennels were so small that the puppies sometimes don’t even have enough room to walk around in a circle. There are generally multiple puppies in each small kennel, which only makes things more
