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Shelter Sense Volume 04, Number 05 WellBeing International WBI Studies Repository 10-1981 Shelter Sense Volume 04, Number 05 Follow this and additional works at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/shesen Recommended Citation "Shelter Sense Volume 04, Number 05" (1981). ShelterSense 1978-92. 18. https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/shesen/18 This material is brought to you for free and open access by WellBeing International. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the WBI Studies Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 4, Number S October 1981 Special section on state legislation ... page 9. A Publication for Animal Sheltering and Control Personnel Study of puppy t comes as no surprise to you that there is an overabundance mills completed of dogs in the US today. But did you know that so-called I"puppy mills," mass dog-breeding facilities that wholesale by Julie Rovner, puppies to pet stores, are adding an estimated half a million HSUS staff writer. animals to an already overflowing population annually? Those are the findings of a year-long HSUS study of the puppy mill problem by Robert Baker, an HSUS staff member who has spent nearly five months in the field, and visited nearly 300 dog­ breeding facilities. What Baker found was a trail of cruelty and misery, the scope of which had previously only been imagined. He found dogs living in utter filth, with inadequate housing, nutrition, and veterinary care. He found untrained owners, many of whom admitted they Continued on next page cared about their dogs only for the profit that could be made But even AKC publishes disclaimers about its perceived "seal of from them. approval. " Says AKC in one of its publications: "There is, unfortunately, a widely held belief on the part of the general Most upsetting, he found evidence that the US Department of public that 'AKC' or 'AKC papers' and quality are one and the Agriculture is largely unwilling to adequately enforce the same. This is not the case. AKC REGISTRATION IN NO WAY provisions of the federal Animal Welfare Act that outlaws the INDICATES THE QUALITY OF 1HE DOG ...Many people breed their dogs cruelty he found. with no concern for the qualitative demands of the standard for The puppy mill problem is a complex one, and much of it is their breed. When this occurs repeatedly over several generations, difficult to document. While we do know that most puppy mill the animals, while still purebred, can be of extremely low quality puppies end up in pet stores, we also know that not all pet in terms of the standard for their breed." (Emphasis on certain stores sell puppy mill puppies. Similarly, some puppy mills are words is from the original text. ) more cruel than others. While a breeding facility may not be To put it bluntly, puppy mills exist because the economic laws cruel according to the living or breeding standards it keeps, of supply and demand are in their favor. The merchandise moves the very existence of so many places where dogs are reduced to rapidly at the pet stores, the demand is kept constant, and the mere puppy-producing machines adds significantly to the pet puppy millers continue to reap profits at their dogs' expense. overpopulation problem and cheapens the life of all dogs. Hard sell techniques from well trained salespeople combined with There is also evidence that puppy mill puppies, because of the puppies' own appeal add to the success of moving puppy mill inadequate nutrition, poor medical care and the stress of being puppies. shipped long distances at an early age, are more prone to Karen Bayer, a special education teacher from Stafford, VA, calls disease than properly bred and raised puppies. Haphazard herself a victim of the hard sell. "They're really great breeding practices also tend to produce dogs with sometimes salespeople, " she said of the pet store staff that sold her a severe physical or emotional defects. 10-week-old Cairn terrier. "They really play on your emotions. " Dr. Bonnie Beaver, Associate Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at Bayer, who now admits she had no intention of buying a dog Texas A&M University, finds genetics to be the basis of most when she went into the pet store, no sooner got her impulse problems with puppy mill dogs. "Puppy mill breeders don't pay purchase home when it became ill. Less than 36 hours later, the any attention to behavior or temperament when they breed, " she puppy was dead, probably the victim of canine parvovirus. says. "As a consequence, we see a lot of puppies with 'weirdo' behavior that come from puppy mills. " After a battle of several months with the pet store for a refund (the outcome of which has yet to be determined), Bayer finally Some of the problems Beaver says she has encountered in puppy got a new dog from her local shelter, which she reports she is mill dogs include excessive shyness, fear biting and very happy with. overaggressiveness. In too many cases, she says puppy mill puppies simply don't make good pets. Not all stories end so happily, though. The HSUS continues to receive a significant number of reports about problems with pet But if the product they produce is so inferior, why do puppy store puppies. But what can .be done? mills still exist? Unfortunately, the answer lies in ignorance. People walking past the local pet store have no idea where those First, try to determine if there are puppy mill puppies being sold "cute little pups" came from or of the squalor many of the in your community. Ask your local pet store owners where they get puppies' parents are forced to live in for their entire lives. their puppies and whether they have visited those breeding establishments. Are they personally familiar with the breeder and people who spurn the idea of adopting an animal from a shelter the facilities? because "you never know where it's been before" somehow are led to believe that a purebred pup with AKC papers from a USDA­ When staff members at your shelter have the chance to speak to licensed breeding facility represents some kind of guarantee people about buying pets from pet shops, be sure to advise those of quality. people to ask the pet store owner where the puppies come from and whether the store owner has seen the conditions under which they were bred. (The majority of puppy mills are located in the Midwest, SHELTER SENSE is published by The National Humane Education particularly in Missouri, Iowa and Kansas -- although not all Center, a division of The Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L Photo credits: St., NW, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 45 2-1100. puppies from these states are necessarily puppy mill puppies. ) HSUS/Baker, pgs. 1, 3; El Dorado News-Times, Then, help educate the public about the plight of the breeding 7; Subscription rates: stock imprisoned in puppy mills and about the dangers of buying pg. six issues-$5.00 (US currency ) Sumner Fowler, pg. 14. additional subscriptions to the same address-$4.00 each (US ) puppy mill puppies. One hundred copies of the flier inserted in this issue of SHELTER SENSE are available free -- just drop us a card requesting them. HS US Director of Animal Sheltering and Control .......Phyllis Wright Editor, SHELTER SENSE .....................Susan Bury Stauffer Finally, make sure the dog-buying public is aware of the Editorial Assistant ..............................Janet D. Frake alternative to pet stores -- that is, your shelter. Stress the fact that with a shelter dog, they will save money and find good © 1981, �he Humane Society of the United Slates, all rights reserved. pets. • 2/SHEL�EB SEl\TSE/OC� '81 oc� '81/SHEL�EB SEl\TSE/3 Items ... he Tri-Agency Animal Regulation Authority serving Eugene, SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ... The Academy is going west! The Animal T Springfield and Lane County, OR, has been reorganized into the Control Academy will hold its two-week Animal Control Lane County Animal Regulation Authority. The agency celebrated Certification Program February 14-28 in San Mateo, CA, at the its new beginning and participated in the Lane County Fair by Peninsula Humane Society's Humane Education Center. This giving free licenses to previously unlicensed dogs during August. program will give ACOs in the west who cannot travel to Alabama The dogs had to have rabies vaccination certificates, and in the an opportunity to benefit from this professional training. For city of Eugene, they had to be sterilized to receive the free complete info�ation, write HSUS's West Coast Regional Office, license. 1713 J St. , Suite 305, Sacramento, CA 95814. Texas A&M University will hold its 8th Annual Animal Control Display in Denver The Denver Dumb Friends League produced the handsome display Personnel Development Program November 16-20. Topics will shown here for exhibiting in banks, shopping centers and other inclu�e Humane Handling and Animal Control Laws and Requirements, public places. The League tries to schedule an exhibit at least Handling Stress and Interpersonal Communications, and Career once a month, and the display will stay on exhibit from one week Ladders and Certification. For complete information, write W.J. to one month. The display includes information on the League's Kilpatrick, DVM, Veterinary -Continuing Education, Texas A&M history, the services it offers and the kinds of animals University, College Station, TX 77843. available for adoption. Executive Director Robert D. Rohde says he's received many favorable comments about its design and Animals no longer The Los Angeles City Department of Animal Regulation has announced content.
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