I am a member of a Facebook group
full of pet lovers of all kind. Arrowing up and down the posts checking out
pictures and comments I came across the following post from one of the members (Facebook group and member name to remain anonymous)….
“Just need to vent, I think I was shown a puppy mill just a little while ago. A friend of mine brought me out to see where he works and I couldn't believe the place. There were run in kennels about the size of stand alone horse stalls with about 4 to 5 dogs in each one. There must have been about 100 dogs on this place. The poor dogs were running in their own feces. The place smelled really bad and inside this shed were puppies who were in wire cages. All the animals including the puppies look to have fleas really bad. My friend told me that he would be starting the job on Wednesday of cleaning up after the dogs once a week, every Wednesday. There were really fluffy and long hair dogs there too that look to be very matted and in real bad need of grooming. I almost started to cry at the sight of all of those dogs and just the thought of what might happen to those puppies is the saddest part of all. My friend says that according to his boss, the puppies stay until they are six weeks old and then sold to pet shops. Sounds like a puppy mill to me, but what do I know, i've only heard about puppy mills, never actually seen one. I just feel so bad for those dogs, most of them were shaking and some of them just looked happy to see someone. I don't think they've ever been loved or taken care of at all. My friend is only going to work there once a week, what about the other six days? They are just suppose to live in their own filth until Wednesday comes? This is just so sad and makes me cry. I'm hugging my babies right now and praying nothing like that ever happens to them. I know i'm giving away my male Pom, but I would love to keep him if I could figure out a way to stop my cat from attacking him. I just hope whomever adopts my little pom will love and take care of him the way I have. Sorry, just had to get this out as it made me so mad.”
After reading this post, I had an enormous amount of mixed
emotions come over me. Maybe he/she seen something like this.....
Or maybe something like this
Or hopefully (if this is puppy mill) we will see something like this
What are your thoughts and opinions about the said “puppy mill in South Dakota.”