What do you think puppy mills are? They BREED, animals, therefore, they ARE BREEDERS. I'm sorry, but no responsible breeder would *ever* sell a puppy to a pet store.

Stopping the sale of puppies in pet stores would DEFINITELY help, it would not help puppy mills. People do not buy directly from puppy mills, like Karen said...the dogs are in awful conditions, the public is not allowed in there.

If they stopped selling puppies in pet stores, puppy mills would no longer have anywhere to supply puppies too. Pet stores could have pets from shelters instead.

I've asked our local pet stores where they get puppies from too. There is no way to find out if they are lying or not, unless you get the actual address information about the breeder, and visit them for yourself.

And I don't know where in the world you are going with the tattoo thing.....what does that matter? Even if they are AKC purebred that doesn't mean they came from a good breeder.