This is disgusting. People who use innocent animals' lives to make money should not be glorified. These people are contributing to the suffering and neglect of puppies who are just being used for profit and will most likely suffer and be put to death. I can't believe People magazine is promoting puppy mills. They should be ashamed of themselves and retract the article.
People magazine how could you run that article and live with yourselves afterwards. Next time do an article on responsible breeders and how much we contribute to bettering our choosen breeds.
Please stop supporting puppy mills and people who make their money off the suffering of these dogs. Your magazine should do more research into puppymills.
A very sad world we live in when selling LIVE animals as fast as they can be reproduced without a THOUGHT for these poor animals....all for the love of money.....Nice thing to teach your children. WRONG !!
Being confined to a small cage and over-bred is no way for a small puppy to be brought in this world. The fatality rate is astounding of new born puppies... it's a wonder breeders still do the puppy mill thing.
No puppy should be bought off the internet. Every breeder should act responsibly about the pups they bring into this world. There are way too many throw away dogs. I cry for each one of them. There are rescue groups all over this country if someone doesn't want to pay a price for a pup.
There are already too many unwanted puppies and dogs. We rescued our beloved puppy from a rescue group. We love him dearly!Focus your efforts on the rescue groups. Advertise for them...but, please don't add to the already large population of poor unwanted dogs.
People magazine is known to print "smut". Now People has stooped lower than low. To the writers at People, why not attempt to redeem yourself and print the real horrors of puppymills rather than promoting this ignorant 16 yr. old as an "entreprener".
Why do you want to promote the suffering of animals? You obviously dont know a thing about puppy mills or you would not support Timothy Hampson as a "proud" owner of cuddlypuppy.com. Timothy and the mills couldnt care less about what happens to these dogs. If they did cuddlypuppy.com would not exist. This needs to stop please dont promote it. Please educate yourself on puppy mills and educate your readers on them. Thank you.
Cuddlypuppy.com is a cruel, dispicable idea and the editors of People should know better than to indirectly promote. As a newspaper person, the irresponsibility of People sickens me. Stick to covering the reveliaton of a new pimple on some celebrity's ass.
Please don't continue to support this puppy mill internet business. REsponsible breeders carefully screen propective buyers. Not only does this take time and direct personal contact, it takes experience dealing with and assessing people.
Although I can read the endorsements regarding "petfinder.com" and adoption of dogs - it is clear that no one has educated this youngster on what puppy mills and disreputable breeders can do to the overpopulation of pets in our country. Responsible breeders and those who engage in rescue do not wish to condemn an entreprenural spirit in youth, but they DO want an educated approach when dealing with LIVE CREATURES! This individual needs to fully undstand the consequences of his actions and his mother should be held accountable for her part in this sad and deplorable website business.
Teens should be aware of the cruelty and lack of morality involved in these puppymills. People Magazine - Please help - include an article on puppymills and rescue.
Not only are you promoting puppy mills but promoting live animals as commotes with no regards for where they are going. Most of these dogs coming out of this type of mass breeding for profit end up in pounds and shelters where rescue groups such as mine have to rehome them or deal with chronic conditions such as epilepsy because there is NO regard for major health issues when the dogs are bred.
It hurts me that with all the so-called animal "Rights" groups in this country, you could uphold a young person who makes a living off the backs of sad little dogs in the puppymills, having litter after litter of unhealthy puppies due to poor care of the parents since all these people he gets those pups from care about is the dollars they will bring. This is so disgusting, when there are millions of dogs put down every year in the shelters for lack of homes. Could you please print the other side of this "coin" as the welfare of these dogs is more important than this 16 year olds' "business" in puppy hides!
I can't believe you would put an article in your magazine about someone selling puppies who is not a caring and concerned breeder. PLEASE put in a article in your magazine about puppy mills and dog pound.
A concerned Animal Control Officer
Timothy should stay with clothing and toys because he obviously doesn't care about living creatures finding a good home. Even more sad is that his mother is helping him be used by puppy mills.
How could anyone with half a brain not see that this is a puppymill and encourage a young man to start in life by destroying the lives of so many dogs. People Magazine needs to retract this article and give the dogs back their lives.
Shame on you, People Magazine! This is truly a case of irresponsible reporting. By publishing this article, you are encouraging others to make their living off of the blood and suffering of dogs and other animals instead of getting a real job. People Magazine should promote closing of Puppy Mills, Rescue, Spay & Neutering, Shelter Adoption, etc. to become a part of the solution of unwanted animals instead of promoting the people and industries that are the problem.
This is absolutely crazy! People Magazine should be ashamed of themselves for promoting puppy mills as a respectable way to make a living. Take into account the cost that others pay to re-home and rescue the dogs that are a result of this and then see if it is a success...
Please get educated and stop spreading uncompassion and ignorance. Use your magazine to promote PEOPLE who are making a positive difference in the world!!
Animals are so helpless, and they are totally dependent on the help of humans. They can't live in the wild, and if they run free, they get killed or picked up by the shelters where most of them end up being killed. If people don't help them, who will? It is our responsibility to do all we can to protect them.
I am stunned that you applaud this ignorance, and even POINT OUT that he brokers for puppy mills. Have you been to a shelter? Do you understand the implications of the genetic problems that are being propagated due to the greed? I am absolutely nauseated. People lost yet another reader.
This is not a business to glorify as a success. Please put more consideration into the impact such an article might have. I'm sure Timothy Hampson is unaware of the harm he may be inflicting and I hope that he will put his energy and skills to another, positive endeavor.
We have rescued a dog from a breeding mill and these breeding dogs suffer endlessly...and with Canada trying to ban pitbulls due to aggressiveness...these sorts of things must stop
Why would you support such greediness? Puppy mills are discussing and cruel. There are so many loveable pets at the local Humane Societies and SPCAs that have rescues from puppy mills. Please stop endorsing this practice of cruelty.
I have been a volunteer in mixed breed and purebred rescue organizations for the past 16 years. Our rescue groups have dealt with the numerous physical and behavioral problems produced by the puppy mills and dog brokers when they refuse to take the dogs back and the owners cannot cope with these problems. I also teach Animal Law and one of the topics covered is the puppy mill/dog broker scandal.
It is truly irresponsible journalism to highlight a young man who profits from the unfortunate dogs trapped in this process and to promote this type of business. If the author of this article had ever attended a dog auction and seen the horrific conditions that these "cuddly puppies" come from I doubt he/she would have written the article. Various TV shows and other magazines have produced excellent shows and articles to educate the public to the evils of puppy mills and Internet breeder/brokers. Please present the other side of the story but carrying an article in your next issue about puppymills/dog brokers and rescue.
I would like to think that, as responsible journalists, you overlooked the downside of the situation that you reported on. I hope that you will allow the other side of the story to be told.
People - what is the matter with you. Your editors have obviously not done their homework. You are turning into a supermarket tabloid with higher quality paper!
Please write an article by educating PEOPLE about puppy mills and how over 6 million dogs are euthanized in the U.S. every year because of people that care only about money!!! like the boy you wrote about.
Branch out to exotic pets!! do the boy AND the readers of PEOPLE a favor and educate them about the horrors of exotic pet marketing.
I would beg of you to run this story only if you include the horrors that go with these puppymills. As a rescuer I have seen so many of these dogs euthanized due to inability to socialize. They are raised by puppymills in cages alone or with too many and never know a kind hand. Do all of us that care a favor and tell both sides of this horrific "enterprise".
I belong to a group who does animal rescue locally. For every dog we get out for adoption there are 15-20 who are going to die. In the Las Vegas Valley appx 25,000 animals are euthianised each year because of people who will not spay and neuter their pets. You need to promote storys about the animals dying and not some kid who is making money are the expense of teh animals.
How disgusting that animals are exploited for the sheer joy of moneymaking!! They are living, breathing creatures, with feelings. Not much differernt then selling children for profit, now is it? Shame on you People Magazine for rewarding such selfishness.
OH MY GOD!!! You cannot contribute to a problem like this and then turn around and tsk tsk to all of the unwanted animals put to sleep. You speak with forked tongue!!! Please investigae THOROUGHLY before praising someone who is adding to the overpopulation problem. Sheesh. I thought you had smarter people working there.
This is revolting..in an age where we are trying to stop backyard breeding and aggressive dogs...a mother allows her own child to do this...what kind of mother does this?
I'm sickened at the fact that the media is now turning a blind eye to their knowledge of these unhealthy & unhappy animals being bred in these conditions so that we, the public, can cheapen yet another aspect of life. Perhaps “People” will do a story on how entrepreneurial the local baby brokers are as well.
This is sick. I hope something gets done. Nothing worse than starting a young kid off on the wrong foot.
He is not a "teenage entrepreneur", he is a sick young child.
This should not have been printed in your magazine, and I hope something gets written in the next edition correcting your mistake.
Sam
Promoting puppy mills just causes more suffering of dogs. Far better to promote the rescue and adoption of dogs in need and those who work to ease their suffering.
This boy breeds and sells puppies like they are clothes - "shipping is available nationwide", "new puppies added daily...email for current availability", and "now accepting deposits on christmas puppies." Absolutely appalling. Just stick with your shallow stories of "Beautiful People" and leave the real-life issues to publications that care. I will never read another People magazine again.
I work with a rescue group and the stories we hear would sadden anyone who has a beating heart. To see the abuse and neglect that two leggers can do to four leggers convinces me that those same two leggers will treat other two leggers poorly.
Stop the criminal action of puppy mill operators.
I wont you to now that even in Denmark we have heard about this and find it discusteble!
I use to bay People whenever I could!
I never will again, shame on you!
