Originally posted by petlover
Oh! Now I get it! Please forgive me everyone.. I am still very young and learning!
Education never hurts! For each and every puppy someone falls in love with in a petstore, it only continues the nightmarish existance for the parents animals. Sadly too few people actually get the big picture as much of this breeding is done secretly, and the puppy millers sell off the pups to "brokers" who in turn sell them to the petstores. Many of these pups have serious health problems, are riddled with parasites etc. A local (so called up-scale) new place opened around my area, and already "Woof Inc" has had to have employees tested and treated for giardia, and sales stopped for a while. Giardea is an intestinal parasite. Too bad they didn't shut down completely.