People Magazine should be a shamed of themselves for this article praising this young man for profiting on the lives of living Creatures. He is helping the Puppy Millers and Careless Back yard breeders to grow for greed of Money. The Kill Shelters are over flowing, The piles of Dead bodies of Helpless Animals is growing and the Rescue workers can't keep up to these types of people. This boys website only fools some people. No Good Reputable Breeder would ever let their puppies be placed like this!! It is a shame the popular Peoples Magazine didn't have the smarts to say no to this boy being in the Artical. Shame, Shame , Shame!!! This looks very bad for this Magazines reputation. This Boy and People Magazine should be made to go visit the Kill Shelters and watch the puppies and dogs being put to sleep and thrown out in the Garbage and Talk to the News Agencies that have footage of Puppy Mill Raids and see the conditions the Breeding Parents live in and their Sores and their Pain , then know that you gave alot more people the Idea of Making Money from the lives of Living Helpless Animals. I am in Shock!!!
This is pathetic! To give accolades to a young man who is brokering dog from horrendous breeders to people with no screening of suitability is just horrendous. If he sells his sister into slavery, will you think that is ingenious as well?
Buying and selling dogs on the internet is wrong and another way to increase the numbers of dogs that will end up in shelters or be euthanized. If this "Teen Titan" was working to place shelter dogs in loving homes rather than being in it for the money, he would be my hero. He needs to understand that random breeding of dogs for sale is wrong. Puppy mills produce dogs with health problems and personality problems and should be closed down. Breeding should be left to responsible breeders who care about placing puppies in good homes and keeping them out of the shelters.
Has this "Teen Titon" ever seen the places his "dogs for sale" come from? This article has set back the hard work that so many of us do to educate people on puppy mills, buying dogs from stores, internet, etc. PLEASE consider what this article has done and allow the other side to have their say. I would love for my rescue work to become non-existent, but when this kind of story is published, it only confirms that it is a constant uphill battle.
This is very sad to have a child learn to make money without thinking of the poor puppies that are being bought into this world with who knows what health problems they may have. Shame on People magazine for encouraging this.
I am appalled and amazed that People Magazine would print an article such as this and give advertisement space to a creature such as this child. All he is doing is creating more animals to be dumped at our already overextended Animal Controls around the US. These pups should be spayed or neutered before placing so they don't procreate and make more poor pathetic creatures that will need to be euthanized because there is no one there to take advantage of them for the almighty dollar.
Having done rescue for the past 4 years, I am extremely sickened & appalled that any magazine would applaud this kind of endeavor. Shame, shame, shame on your PEOPLE!!!!
I am a little a taken back that People Magazine would display such a sense of ignorance by supporting the endeabors of this young Puppy Mill Mogul. And shame on his mother.
Wow! Thanks People Magazine for giving positive reinforcement to an impressionable young man about how to continue to be cruel, insensitive, cause pain and suffering, contribute to the national nightmare of unwanted pet population. I guess as long as it makes money it doesn't matter who gets hurt. Shame on you! Cancel my subscription effective immediately. This kid will not doubt grow up to be abusive and murderous if he continues on this path of misery to his fellow beings. When they do the episode of CSI about how he felt nothing when he killed, pat yourselves on the back for giving us another killer. I am just disgusted...
This is a disgrace. I'm outraged that your magazine would feature this teens irresponsible practice as a success story! How about show casing a kid that Volunteers at a Humane Society FOR FREE! And how that kid copes with all the unwanted pets that are out there, and how that kid provides comfort to a doomed soul!
I am appalled that People would print an article that encourages irresponsible breeding of animals, when so many people already abandon pets because they are poorly bred and carry major health problems.
Do you suppose for one minute that this 16 year old boy has the knowledge to properly test and screen his dogs for health problems? Or the money to do so? No. Instead these puppy are being irresponsibly bred, and sold to whoever will pony up the cash. No screening to make sure the home is a good one, or that they are not being sold to other puppy mills, or to underground ringleaders of dog fighting as "bait".
I'm am completely disgusted, and will NOT be purchasing People magazine again. And will ask my family and friends to do the same.
After spending many sleepless nights after having to see entire cages of these cuddly type pups be put down for health reasons or for lack of a good home this type of irresponsability sickens me.
Education is the key and let's hope that People Magazine can see the value to giving the humane viewpoint equal time.
Stacy Low
stacyplow@aol.com
President,
McMinnRegional Humane Society, Athens, TN.
This is horrible!! This family should be taken to view some puppy mills and see firsthand where their "merchandise" is being born and tortured. They should also see dogs being used as bait because nobody cared to ensure that puppies were going to loving homes. Please do an article that shows the horrific puppy mill conditions.
How disgusting that child and parents need help or should be put behind bars so see what it feels like. Naturally in dirty, filthy condition with lousy food. Only a trash magazine like People Magazine would even publish something like that.
Having opened my home to rescue an older, overbred, unhealthy, unsocialized mill mother whose breeding usefullness had run out at the puppy mill, I can attest to the horrible conditions that these dogs are forced to live in just for the purpose of making a buck. Shame on People Magazine for promoting this, shame on Timothy Hampson and shame on his mother for teaching her son these lack of values!!
Teen Titan indeed! And the fact that his mother supports him is reprehensible. The fact that People would support and glorify this internet puppymiller is disgraceful.
I can't imagine how "People" could have thought that what this young man is doing is a positive thing. Obviously whoever wrote this article doesn't have a clue about puppymills. Maybe rather than all of the boring, celebrity gossip that fills their pages, "People" should do a responsible article about puppymills with the assistance of some of the celebrities that claim to be so concerned. I don't know why little is being done to shut these horrible facilities down. Someone is looking the other way.
Hopefully once People Magazine understands the issues involved they will do an article about a person or group who rescues responsibly.Fortunately there are a lot of them out there trying to counteract just such irresponsibility as this boy's puppymill.
This article disgusts me....and the thought of what happens to these poor little innocent babies disgusts me. This "business" is no more than another way to exploit these babies, that cannot speak for themselves, and the bottom line, as with puppy mills, is MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. I read People Magazine faithfully and could not believe it when I read this article, and that they would feel this was a "rewarding business". As a rescue person, I have seen the outcome of disgusting people that "sell" these babies, and the outcome is normally not good. These people are living a good life, and these animals are suffering...and please don't tell me that "every dog goes to a good home"....I know better.
Please consider printing an article about the horror of puppy mills and backyard breeders. There are so many pets waiting at shelters and rescue organizations to be adopted, why buy from a back yard breeder? Help save a life, adopt a shelter or rescue dog!
People - my subscription to you has STOPPED as of today. I no longer think of you as a reputable magazine. HOW DISGUSTING!!! Dogs are NOT commodities or propery - they are living, breathing, feeling creatures! Would you have approved of this "entrepreneur" if he sold babies over the internet. You are nothing but a rag magazine!
I have three mill dogs in my home who are unadoptable. Should they be put to sleep just because they are unadoptable due to sensory deprivation or should I continue to work with them and try and help them live normal lives? To me there is NO question in my mind. The dogs come first and it is sickening to see what comes out of the mills. People magazine can help educate the public and help stop the mills supplying pet stores and brokers across the nation. These are our faithful companions that the mills exploit. People Magazine, please help stop the cruelty.
I think publicizing this story will simply encourage other puppymill operators to find their own "child entrepreneur" spokesman so they can make more money by selling their own puppies over the internet and skip their middleman, pet shops. Buying a puppy over the internet, sight unseen, is just purchasing heartache. If this is somebody's idea of a "feel good" article, it is not. Other suggestions for an article: A feature exposing the daily living conditions of the parents of these cuddlypuppies; a commentary on dogs born blind, epileptic, with hip dysplasia, or other more painful genetic problems common to their breed, but which could be prevented by utilizing proper and available medical testing procedures, and, by NOT breeding those dogs who are carriers of the genes; an item on the many stars and beautiful people who have rescued dogs from shelters; or, perhaps a column recounting the story of a young person who makes news by doing his part to fix a social ill, such as educating the public on proper and responsible pet ownership and rehabilitating shelter dogs. I was a very, very long-time subscriber to People Magazine, but those days are now over for me.
This young man is ignorant. People Magazine is irresponsible. Please run another article that explains why all puppy buyers should be screened and how such screening is accomplished by most breeders.
This is another puppy mill. People Magazine should check out puppy mills and the shelters and see the conditions most puppy mill dogs live in, and see the number of unwanted animals being put to death. Shame on you, People Magazine.
What are they encouraging kids to do!!!At that age they are involved in all kinds of extra curricular activities how in the world can they take care of these defenseless animals.
If you want stories about teenage heros, do a story on a teenager who takes time out of their busy schedule to help with rescue. They take time to rehabilitate these poor puppies this kid is selling because most will end up being dumped at shelters or on the side of the road. Take the time to educate this kid and other people about puppy mills and puppy brokers. Now, that would be a story worth reading!
As a rescuer myself, I see daily the results of bad breeding by puppymills and backyard breeders. I speak to the families who purchased the animals that are too sick to be saved, who have genetic defects that will end their pets life early. I hear their heartache. To promote this in any fashion is a major disgrace by your magazine.
This is disgusting, that a mother would let her child sell these animals for profit. Are these puppies ever taken to the vet, up to date on shots, socialized, etc. I would assume the answer to all of those questions in no, because money is usually the only concern.
In todays society when rescues bust their butts spends long hours taking care of animals, and tring to save as many as they can and find them all loving homes, it is scary to think that a magizine would actually publish an article like this. Why not do an artical on some rescues that actually help these animals, and actually care.
This child needs to be taught that animals are more than something you make money with.
I will NEVER buy this magaxine again and will encourage all friends and family not to either, unless this is stopped.
this kid has no clue what puppymills & irresponsible breeders are all about..many of these dogs are illbred with serious health issues and end up abandoned or dumped in shelters. People magazine should run a story about how they should be abolished instead of promoting this young man's business... please!
I do admire this kind od "Teen Titan", this is how puppy mills start. I think tou should be concentrating on young people who are not using animals to make a buck.
I hope this petition causes People Magazine to publish a retraction article that focuses on what happens to these animals. Has Timothy ever considered that the dog fighting community uses small dogs as training bait? Also Timothy and his mother and sister need to experience some time in the euthanisia room at their local shelter.
Timothy Hampson should have stayed with candy vending machines. Helping promote tooth decay is far better than the promotion of his "gold mine"! He is nothing more than another horrible puppymill contributing to America's over population of potential homeless pets. Designer puppies? Ask any mixed breed Rescue Group how hard we have to work to place these poor "inventions" of man's desire to create.
Puppy mills are wrong, wrong, wrong. Do not glorify this means of making money. Be sure to put in an article by educated people describing the life the pups have now and will have in the future.
Its a shame that a magazine and its readers think this is a good thing. When the reputable breeders take such care in making sure that the home is acceptable for placing a pup to a forever home.
Pets are not toys. and shoud in no way be used for makeing money. Are you so dum that I had to tell you this. Selling a pup to cover cost spent on it and its mum is fine. but to bye and sell just for money, and not even caring what happens to them, Well dont tell me that humans are smarter than anamals. prove it.
