Please DO NOT glorify puppymillers and brokers of puppymillers. Please show an article that shows what puppymiller conditions are and the work of the rescue organizations or even the individual or small rescue organizations that pickup the puppymill dogs that are no longer wanted due to health or emotional problems.
I am shocked that you would run such an article to help further this teenager to run nothing more then a puppymill. There are Thousands of unwanted pets dying in shelters every day. Please, At least run a puppymill awareness in your next article.
"These Innocent Dog's are "DYING" for Dollars".
Puppies are not commodities to be traded as a business but lifestyle choices of loving care & sacrifice. You article is not promoting responsible breeding nor animal welfare. I suggest you spend a day at an animal shelter & help on death row to understand the carnage caused by animal brokers & puppymills who's only concern is a quick dollar without responsibility to who they sell the animals to. I hope you will do an article on abandoned animals soon to balance your reporting.
Puppy mill owners make money from the misery of these poor animals. People magazine must put things in perspective by publishing an article about the reality of these dreadful places and their dispicable owners.
As a dedicated volunteer for a rescue, I see what happens to dogs discarded by their owners because not enough questions/research from either parties, breeder or potential owners, are asked. Then we as a rescue are left to pick up the disasterous results. Please think twice before honoring such a website. My teen volunteers with me for FREE, to learn valuable lessons not earn money. For that she will get a real job.
The 16-year-old boy might be 'only' ignorant of the immorality of his 'work' but People Magazine should know better than to promote cruelty for the sake of money.
What irresponsible journalism! Shades of tabloid trash. Why on earth are you giving some profiteer such publicity!!! Have your people checked rescue and shelter statistics??---or is that too controversial for your editors. For every fool like the one in your article who cranks out living creatures for profit, hundreds more people work behind the scenes to clean up the aftermath. Sheesh!! Looking at your publication now in a whole new perspective. It might be a good idea to boycott the products of those who advertise in your publication, if you don't take the effort to rectify this bit of journalistic trash that your magazine published!
This type of business is irresponsible in light of all the homeless animals now on the street, in shelters and sanctuaries. Don't buy while others die.
This is amazing that a magazine like people would put this article in it. I do Rescue work, to try and save dogs from being put down in shelters and removed from bad homes. This article promotes PuppyMill dogs, please look into what a PuppyMill is about. Check out the conditions these dogs live in so Greedy people like this young man can make money from helpless animals suffering. This young man has no idea where these dogs are going or where they came from Money is his only concern and you are telling the world its a good thing. I will never purchase a People Magazine again. Shame on YOU
There is nothing remarkable about rewarding a teenager for putting profit ahead of the value of life. When I see a site that is selling what amounts to a mutt for $800 to $900, something is drastically wrong.
As an educated person, I have to ask why you would put forward an individual who is an example of unethical business practices and greed as a role model for young people. What were you thinking?
This young man and his family are deplorable. I have rescued a Japanese Chin from the SPCA who was a puppy machine. These people need to be educated that dog owners must be careful chosen and dogs should be sold or bought off a web site!!
Shame on People Magazine for promoting puppy mills! In addition to the cruelty puppy mills foster, they also lead to heartbreak for the people buying these overbred dogs. Responsible breeders breed out congenital defects and disturbing personality traits from their litters and care deeply about the homes to which these babies go. Puppy mills could care less about the future treatment of the animals they sell. There are so many sad stories! NEVER BUY ANY DOG OR CAT ONLINE! NEVER BUY ANY DOG OR CAT FROM A "PET STORE" AS THEY ARE SUPPLIED BY PUPPY MILLS! Interview the breeder, get referrals, if possible, visit the kennel. Protect these innocents as well as yourself, and boycot People Magazine until they tell the other side of the story!
Puppymills will never go away until people are educated enough to not buy puppies from places like cuddlypup. How many more dogs will suffer as a result of People Magazine's article.
Please run a story about all the wonderful people who save hese poor animals when they wind up in shelters & rescues, incuding the teenagers who volunteer their time to help out there. These kids are not out for a buck, but are learning even more valuable lessons that will help them be better people!
who is looking after these puppies, are they excercised, loved, cuddled, what kind of "dogs" will they grow up to be if they are confined to kennels in the laundry room and living room then shipped again to a strange home. shame on the parents of this kid for not teaching him to care about life and the quality of life for every living creature.
I think you should do more research before you decide who is a good entrepreneur. These dogs will end up on anyones doorsteps even those who only want to hurt them. The type of breeders that would supply him, supply sick dogs, and do not care about the state of the mother dogs. A mail order business of products would be fine, but dogs are alive, and are not products.
I HAVE 3 Great Danes that I had from a rescue. The people who breed should have formal traing as I am a volunteer for a rescue and I have seen what can happen if they are not knowledgeable. I watched a friend who thought she knew what she was doing bred dacshunds and watched them die. Please help us warn people about puppy mills.
Thanks
What a horrible practice to support. I hope People magazine will inform readers of the consequences of puppy mill breeders by printing a feature about rescue and shelter animals.
People Magazine, did you even check into this "budding merchant" before you quantified him as such? Anyone can look at the web site and see that's not true. And that's without considering what the business is that the budding merchant is in. You should be ashamed of yourself. Please look into what you missed and speak out about puppymills. You owe it to the puppies you have caused harm to by supporting this puppymill.
For a magazine like People to publish such a favorable view of irresponsible dog marketing is disgraceful. The young man's work ethic and business acumen are to be lauded, his choice of product condemned.
Everyone who has a televison set has seen exposes on puppy mills and the genetically defective dogs they produce. Many of these cute puppies end up either dying in their first months of life or are a financial medical and emotional drain on owners that eventually decide to dump the dog at a shelter or euthanize it. There are also temperament issues associated with these breedings. I work in a vet clinic and see the problems on a daily basis that dogs have, that come from backyard breeders and puppy mills...Shame on People magazine for promoting this problem. How many other "puppy brokers" will now get into the act as a result of this article?
I urge you to let the other side to the puppy mill issue have a voice in your magazine. Have you any idea how many helpless animals suffer and die in puppy mills so that one silly teenage goon can make a buck? I am disgusted. Please let the other side have a say also.
please Put an article into your magazine about puppymills and rescue dogs, to try and educate the general public on the importance of shutting down and not buying from puppy mills.
Puppies produced from puppy mills are raised in filthy, inhuman, crowded conditions. The US doesn't need any more animals; 5 million are killed each year in shelters.
Featuring an article which glorifies a young person for indisctimately breeding animals and then selling them to any person with the right amount of money is just one example of how the media is one element responsible for the degredation of our society. Shame on People magazine! As long as this idiotic mentality continues to exist, those of us in rescue will continue to pick up the literal "pieces" left behind by puppymillers and others who fail to respect all forms of life. Dogs and cats are not our property - they are our companions. Would you breed your sister/mother/daughter for profit?!?!?!??!?
As I do Shar-Pei rescue, I find this appalling.
Homes should be researched thoroughly before allowing a puppy to be placed.
Allowing and praising a teen to aquire puppies from digusting mills to sell to just anyone makes the magazine editor just as responsible.
Now, why not do an article from our side, rescuing those unloved and unwanted because of health issues from these horrible places.
This "breeder" just sickens me. This "teenage entrepreneure" is nothing more than an unethical, back yard breeding miniature puppy-mill. When will this idocracy stop?!
These puppies are being set up for abuse and abandonment. A good breeder interviews and checks references before placing a dog to make sure it will be a good fit.
