SELLING & BUYING LIVING BEINGS IS THE IDEA OF THE NAZIS! SHAME ON "pEOPLE MAGAZINE". I'LL NEVER BUY GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS AS I PLANNED ON DOING FOR THE COMING HOLIDAYS...
How about all the cuddly pups, kittens, dogs and cats at the ASPCA and everyone's local pounds? Please find and write an article about an entrepreneur that can come up with creative, effective ways to find homes for all these poor animals!
I think most people looking for a pet are better served going through the breeder of the dog rather than a teenage go between. contracts are not binding on a party if under 18 so how well will a buyer be able to enforce or collect damages if something is wrong with the new member of their family? How much research does this kid do on the breeds that he is selling,breeders he is buying from and potential homes that he is sending these puppies to? I see this as a disaster waiting to happen or a new puppymill getting ready to start. Why pay the breeder when he can breed himself and keep more of the profit. I am very disappointed that this was featured in your magazine.
My mother is the biggest animal lover in the world. She works with rescue dogs all the time. I have seen the dogs she has fostered and the horrible way they were treated. Hunger, deformities, so scared of people they can't even stand up. The article in People Magazine was shameful and I will never buy it again.
No animals should be sold to unknown buyers over the internet. Especially by children there are many other professions this young man can sell not animals. This is a cruel and inhumane system for keepign the animals until sold
As president of an area obedience training club and foster "mom" for my breed rescue group, I find People magazine extremely negligent in their research of this topic. Their negligence in not realizing the broader impact of these "online" puppy mills is unforgivable. We have hundreds of dogs of all breeds and mixed breeds from across the county that are homeless, in shelters or being euthanized due to irresponsible breeders and organizations out promoting dog breeding as a business. Cancel my subscription!!
This is extremely disturbing that this young teen would be selling mix breeds of basically any breed of dog you can think of. Not only that, but his dogs are not even good quality, atleast the purebred ones that I saw on his website, and he's asking outrageous prices for these poor little pups that are probably going to end up with all kinds of health issues, and worse yet, in shelters across the world. This is truly very saddening to me to read about. Please do something to put an end to this boy's "business."
The public, as well as those at People magazine, needs to be educated about backyard breeders, puppy mills, and the unfortunate need for rescue groups. Why People magazine chose to publish this article instead of one that would help to protect animals is a question that should be given careful thought. Is making money more important than the health and well-being of animals? Shameful.
Your teen titan article is irresponsible -- puppy mills are not humane and no one should be allowed to have them, especially a teen whose only ambition seems to be to make money, at the cost of these wonderful animals' comfort. Dogs are not meant to crank out more dogs as the sole focus of their life. They are meant to be beloved pets. Puppy mills and the stores that buy from them should be closed down. There are more than enough "mutts" and purebred dogs going into shelters and being euthanized in our country to go around to anyone who wants a pet. Please do not perpetuate this problem by glorifying this little underaged entrepreneur.
If he started a no-kill animal shelter and placed dogs and puppies who were being abandoned into good homes, then it might be appropriate to praise this kid. Otherwise, he's no better than the rest of the greedmongers in this country who pump out puppies for a profit, not caring about the quality of their lives or the lives of the females and males being mated to produce the puppies.
Who's the ******* that got the bright idea to publish this article??? Have the folks at People's lost their minds??? This kind of advertisement is bound to make a bunch of teens and other easily swayed people want to get little doggies that way (especially with Paris Hilton and other celebs touting cute little pups like that). Shame on everyone involved in getting the article published and giving Timothy Hampson any publicity at all.
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING to put this article in your magazine? Someone certainly didn't do much research to think that this was something to promote in a positive way.
What that child is doing is discusting!
He is not screening buyers and who know where these innocent puppies are going. You need to see what really happens in puppy mills!!! We in rescue have more unwanted and abused dogs than we can handle now!!!
Although the young man should be commended for his ambition, his lack of knowledge in the dogs he is selling is nothing unethical at best. As a breeder and owner of french bulldogs for years, I know there is so much to know about raising healthy frenchies that a 16 yr old could never know. Selling several breeds with just some breeders say-so that they are healthy pets is not good business. Do you want to pay thousands of dollars for a sick or genetically unstable pet that you and your children come to love, only to have it die, or suffer because of someone's ignorance?
This is not the first time People mag. has displayed the shallownness if it's reporting. A short story with photo told of Dustin Hoffman manhandling a beached sea lion back into the water. A sea lion that is beached and allows itself to be handled is clearly very ill; returning to the water could hasten it's death. Instead Marine Mammal Rescue personell should have been notified. People mag. clearly continues to aid in the suffering of our fellow critters.
I work in rescue. The ill effects of irresponsibly selling puppies to people that have no idea that they are buying a living breathing being with a personality is evident when they get dumped as if they are defective after they have been improperly cared for and trained. Please publish an article about the problems connected with the irresponsible breeding and selling of dogs.
This is deplorable. How could a magazine such as People possible be so irresponsible as to print and therefore promote the suffering of these precious creatures for personal gain. UNBELIEVEABLE>>>
This "child" and his family should not be glorified as entrepreneurs.Overpopulat ion of mixed breeds is already a major problem. Send him to the euthanasia room at the local shelter.
I am sickened that People Magazine would honor someone who helps mass PUPPY MILL breeding farms to make more money, the WORST dogs ceome from these places of filth!
Have you been to a shelter???? How about made a surprise visit to a puppy breeder? Some female dogs are kept in cages so small they never stand up their entire lives, and are now crippled. Please take a 2nd look.
This is awful! Do people know what these animals go through? There are sooo many worthy things for People Magazine to publicize.. Why don't they look into all the states that still eutanize animals? There are soooo many!!!! Or the conditions in shlters, or the amazing! Tireless rescuers, that devote there time and resources to saving these adorable creatures!!!
You have, no doubt without doing the required research into your story, done a great wrong to all the unwanted animals that now already wind up in shelters.
By promoting this ruthless exploytation and calling this young man and his mother entrepeneurs, you have helped to create even more misery for these dogs, that we are supposed to love as man's best friend. Now make up for your mistake and tell the truth about back yard breeders and puppy mills, so your readers can be truly informed.
i am a 20 y/o and an animal lover. i would NEVER start a buisness that will only perpetuate the growing problems of puppy mills and overcrowding in shelters. People magazine should have done a story on a teen helping to SOLVE these problems, not ADDING to it.
Oh my gosh - please print an article on the number of dogs in shelters and rescues and the number that are euthanized every year due to careless breeders!!!
This is so sick! I am seachless! Why in the world would you promote puppy mills? Now that you have promted more puppy mills why don't you go visit one. Would you like to live in a cage all your life? No love, No hugs? What is this world coming to? You have just sentenced thousands of more dogs to death! Go to the SPCA and look in the eyes of these dogs on death row! Visit a rescue group! Talk to them! take a look at these poor dogs. Look what you have just done. You have just added thousands more! Another nice educational visit for you to take is go and watch HOW they kill all the unwanted dogs. No, they don't put them to sleel one at a time...they put them in a big tank and gas them all at once. It is a very SLOW Painful DEATH! PLEASE write something that will encourage people NOT to do this! PLEASE! How can you sleep at night? This is animal abuse at it's best! Please do something to help!
Puppy mill dogs end up at rescues. Or worse. Especially when the only contact between breeder & new owner is through a 16 yr old internet liazon! Did you read their guarantee - they require you to give specific vitamins & follow regiments since these dogs are prone to genetic disorders. And they credit you if the dog dies in the first 3 years due to genetic disorder (less credit the 2nd and 3rd year, because of course you had those great first few months with the dog, and a "used" dog is not worth as much right?) Please do a story on petfinder.com next time!
It would be extremely beneficial for the People magazine to do a follow up article on puppy mills and what happens to unwanted and uncared for puppies.
There goes my subscribtion to People. I will NOT support that kind of thing. People is in the trash, and I will be using further copies as "doggie training paper", because that's all it deserves to be.
This is horrendous ! How can you feature (thus condone) this type of behavior. Puppy Mills and Puppy Brokers are illegal and this
person supports both. Shame on your magazine for
advertising this as
a "good" thing. It is NOT !
I have a nephew who is 16 and started his own landscape business. He is not making money with the suffering of any living thing. Puppy mills are despicable. To think that People chooses to promote them makes them no better a publication than Star or National Enquier.
I can't believe a magazine like People would ever even think to print a story like this!
Please look into "puppy mills" and see how awful they really are!THATS ALL THIS WEB SITE IS A GLORIFIED PUPPYMILL!
I cannot belive Pople would publish a story that not only promotes a puppy mill, it will give more kids the idea that they can make money breeding more & more animals when there are already too many unwanted pets in the animal shelters. It's time to make the public aware of the need for loving homes for pets, not to tell them that adding more (and I might also say expensive) pets to the already overpopulated shelters. I beleive you need to give equal time to a rescuer, a shelter & to promote spay/neuter. No more People magazine for me, you should be as ashames as I am apalled!
So, People magazine has stooped to promoting teens who crank out puppy after puppy to sell when the shelters are full of them needing good homes. There are a LOT of loving pet owners and reputable breeders who "used" to read your magazine. No More!
When I was young and stupid, I got a job in a pet store. My job was to take these miserable, filthy, worm and flea infested little things, and make them into pretty little puppies that people paid insane amounts of money for. Needless to say, I lasted less than a week. It's sad to see a young person without enough morals to know that making money off this horrid "business" is just wrong. I just don't think people know how bad it truly is for the dogs, that or they just don't care, and they don't deserve a puppy anyway.
Ethical breeders work to produce healthy, well socialized puppies and put a great deal of effort into choosing appropriate homes for those in their care. In this day of educated puppy buyers only the undeducated would purchase a puppy form an unknown environment.
You need to be promoting the documentary Best Friends Forgotten by Julie Loften portraying the life of a shelter cat and a shelter dog. The overpopulation of cats and dogs is a tremendous problem and needs to be addressed. Perhaps this teen should be volunteering at an animal shelter where 80% of the animals brought in each year end up being euthanized. Let's do something to stop the overpopulation. We don't need to let people think they should be making a profit selling puppies from puppy mills. Shame on People Magazine, can't you find anything else to publish?
I am the owner of three dogs which are the products of puppy mills such as you touted in your recent issue of People. They came to me as strays, with badly matted hair, tics, fleas, buckshot pellets in their bodies. They were emaciated and unhealthy because of poor access to food. I rescue dogs and have had contact with many more dogs in this situation because of puppy mills. Please let people know that puppy mills do NOT care to whom they sell dogs, that they provide no recourse if the dogs are not healthy (as good breeders do)--and dogs get dumped. Many of these dogs are poorly bred and have many health problems as a result. PLEASE, please write an article about the problems with puppy mills.
How do we know that this puppies arn't being sold to animal testing sites? Rescue dogs are just that. They are to be rescued by loving owners not sold for a profit by some teenager.
