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BARK AROUND THE WORLD 2010 IS COMING!!
Candlelight Vigil - 8pm, Friday, May 21st, Location TBD
Bark Event - 10am to 4pm, Saturday, May 22nd, New York State Fairgrounds, Center of Progress Building
Participants so far include, RESCUEINK, Author Tom Schreck, Max 200, Dog Agility Equipment Demonstration, Patrick Kwan, New York State Director for The Humane Society of the United States, Pilots & Paws.
More info to come as it becomes available, check back often!
What is a Puppy Mill?
A puppymill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. Unlike responsible breeders, who place the utmost importance on producing the healthiest puppies possible, breeding at puppymills is performed without consideration of genetic quality. This results in generations of dogs with unchecked hereditary defects.
Puppymill puppies are typically sold to pet shops—usually through a broker, or middleman—and marketed as young as eight weeks of age. The lineage records of puppy mill dogs are often falsified.
In order to maximize profits, female dogs are bred at every opportunity with little to no recovery time between litters. When, after a few years, they are physically depleted to the point that they no longer can reproduce, breeding females are often killed. The mom and dad of the puppy in the pet store window are unlikely to make it out of the mill alive—and neither will the many puppies born with overt physical problems that make them unsalable to pet stores.
Illness, disease, fearful behavior and lack of socialization with humans and other animals are common characteristics of dogs from puppymills. Because puppymill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools, puppies from puppymills are prone to congenital and hereditary conditions.
Puppymills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without adequate veterinary care, food, water and socialization. Puppymill dogs do not get to experience treats, toys, exercise or basic grooming. To minimize waste cleanup, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs—and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns. Breeder dogs at mills might spend their entire lives outdoors, exposed to the elements—or crammed inside filthy structures where they never get the chance to feel the sun or a gust of fresh air on their faces.
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