Shame on you for promoting this way of breeding and selling of animals. Obviously they do not care about the health and wellbeing of these animals, just to make a quick buck.
Did anyone take a look at this site? How contradictive!!! They are selling like 15 breeds, but say to please look into adopting before buying our puppies. They should see the abuse and neglect most rescues have been through. They do not care about their puppies one bit!!!!
Instead of teaching responsibility and humane treatment of animals to our kids, our society is now celebrating young adults making money off of breeding mix breed pups with no regards to the breed standard or health, and promoting ideas that animals can be used as profits. What a shame. How about we teach our kids to volunteer at numerous animal shelters around the country, show them the beauty of life as well as sad facts of lives wasted by our greed, so that they may grow up to be compassionate adults who knows that you cannot put a monetary value on life?
Buying puppies from a puppy farm who keep their dogs in rabbit hutches their entire lives, never giving them a brake from being pregnant then selling them on the internet to who knows what people is something respectible breeders are trying to stop and you advertising this as an acheivment is not something I want to endorse by buying your magazine. If you are wise you will print something about that being a mistake, who you will definetly loose obviously thousands of dissapointed readers.
You should run a story on the Mother... World's Stupidest Mother!!!
Obviously she is out to help her son make a fast buck!!!!
Maybe she should teach her kids about compassion and morales!!!!
So much for buying another copy of "People" magazine!!!! You won't get my money !!!
I have a puppy who is a rescue from a puppy mill. He spent the first 5 months of his life in a rabbit hutch, with no human contact. He had never seen grass and was afraid to walk on it. His feet were red and had sores from walking on wire all the time. He had Legg-Perthes Disease and had surgery at 9 mos. to remove the head of the femur in his hip. This was an inherited disease, and irresponsible breeding caused this puppy to suffer unnecessarily for months until he was rescued and received medical attention. Please do not publish this article and make heroes of these people.
I hope people Magazine does not support this kind of buisness and I hope they print something on the the hundreds and hundreds of puppies and dogs that end up in shelters because of puppie mills like this young man and his mother are promoting this is a very sad thing to think that a very reputal magazine such as peoples would write a colume like this and support such a horrid type of buisness as a puppie mill I think if they want to save face they should look into the true facts about this type of nasty cruel mean buisness and write a story on the hole issue people like this must be inbread them selves
I am horrified that ANY magazine or individual would applaud this young man and his puppy mill! The bottom line is always greed and quick money - and this "merchant" is do different than any other unscrupulous back yard breeder!
It is great to promote young entrepreneurs, but this young man is promoting puppy mills which is unacceptable. Next time you have an article in your magazine (which by the way my three daughters read, and I will now cancel my subscription) research your articles and do not allow the promotion of puppy mills and irresponsible breeding and selling of dogs. Please in the future be more responsible and informed of these things.
This is a horrid life for these poor dogs that are used over and over again for breeding. No love given, horrid conditions, paraiste, sickness, genetic problems galore! To see these conditions just sicken me.
WAKE UP. Why do you think there's so many shelters full of dogs needing homes? This isn't a third-world country; they're not running in the streets. They are the product of over-breeding, primarily from puppy mills. Do some more research and then write an article on THAT.
I am so sick that a magazine would endorse a puppy mill! With working in Animal Control, I see the horrors first hand of what puppy mills do, and when innocent animals don't go to the "Right" homes. Millions are severely abused, and abandoned. There are millions that die on the street & in shelters because there is Simply NOT enough "GOOD" homes for all. People Magazine should wake up, go spend a day in a shelter, and see the horrors.
Puppies are not meant to be sold over the internet. These are living, feeling animals that deserve GOOD homes. No home checks are being done before selling these puppies to anyone who pays for one online, for all anyone knows, they might be bought by dealers that are reselling them to labs for animal experimentation or vivisection (or who knows, even beastiality purposes)! Less shocking, but even more possible is that uninformed people are buying these puppies and then neglecting them through ignorance or lack of funds. Puppies require a LOT of time to teach house-training, basic obedience commands, and they require lots of socialization and love. It takes a LOT of time to properly raise a puppy, and it costs quite a bit too. Just a well puppy check, and the basic puppy vaccination series can run into the thousands by the time the dog is full grown. Add on to this, spay/neuter, flea and tick treatments, a proper high quality diet, and the costs can be overwhelming! Shame on this CHILD for doing this, and shame on his parents for not teaching him morals, and respect for life, and on top of that, SHAME on People Magazine for promoting this irresponsible "business"! I'll stick to TIME MAGAZINE, that unlike you, writes stories that are on the side of the INNOCENT ANIMALS, and not the irresponsible PEOPLE in this world! Why not paint PEOPLE in their true light, as the domineering, destructive, and evil beings we are, instead of buttering up reality and twisting humanity's weaknesses into vindication and glorification for our evils!
I would have liked to have seen further follow-up on exactly where these puppies come from, as I suspect they are coming from puppy mills...there are so many dogs in shelters needing homes. Selling puppies over the internet is not, in my opinion, a safe nor upstanding practice.
Shame on you People Magazine, for following in Dan Rather's footsteps and printing a story without checking out all the facts!! I'm not AT ALL impressed with this puppy mill owner or his puppy mill mother.
To the editor of PEOPLE Mag. Go in undercover and take pictures of some of the puppy mills. Go to some of the auctions of these dogs. Look into their eyes. Some are total blanks, there just puppy machines, no life no love. Show the PUBLIC just what goes on. Its not the cute little puppy in the picture. Don't let people fall for the line these breeders give them. That Mother and her son have a long way to grow up. Lets find a way to shut down all the puppy mills, PLEASE
I want him to look at the internet or in a pound for one day and I want him to see all the abused and neglected dogs that people DONT think are cute, and DONT want!
I want nothing to do with this creap
People should be educating the public about responsable dog breeding, not doing feature articles on a 16 year old puppy miller. What a shame they have taken this position on irresponsable dog breeding.
How could any mother allow and even help her child like this? My children were brought up to respect the sanctity of an animal. I am appalled and disgusted with People Magazine for promoting this child's business!!
As the Director of a Humane Society, I recommend that 17 year-old puppy mill owner Timothy Hampson volunteer at an animal shelter and help the millions of dogs that are killed each year.
On the face of it, this boys story sounds like a kid being good, inventive and hard working. However, his Cuddlypuppy enterprise is just another way that buying puppies becomes not a well thought out decision, backed by research into a particular breed and then an effort to buy a well bred dog, but rather another mode of distributing dogs into the hands of someone who might abandon them because the pups don't measure up to expectations. Please have an article about puppymills and rescue dogs in a future issue of your magazine.
THIS IS AN ATROCITY AND HAS TO BE STOPPED. THEY ARE LIVING BREATHING MAMMALS AND DESERVE TO BE TEATED WITH COMPASSION AND KINDNESS LIKE ALL LIVING CREATURES.
" He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -Anonymous
This type of animal merchandising promotes overbreeding which results in poor genetic quality. Not to mention spotaneous purchasing that results in abandonned and or neglected animals.
This isn't entrepreneurship - this is animal abuse - there's no screening of the adopters and it encourages puppy mills to continue killing their dogs through over-reproduction!
I thought People Magazine was a decent publication until now. There are other ways for a teen to become an entrepreneur (hard to even say that the practice of running a puppy mill is an entrepreneur) without addding to the problem of pet overpopulation and endangering the lives of innocent animals.
Why don't you do a story on what puppymills are really like. The horriffic conditions these poor animals are put into.How they are cramped in tiny wire cages with urine and feces all over,sick puppies who fight for whatever little food they get ,with filthy water bowls if their lucky. How puppies are debarked with lead pipes so no one will hear them cry out. How these poor dogs are terrified of the millers,because pf the deplorable conditions, they are beaten or hosed down with ice cold water and they cower in there tiny overcramped cages they are mangled because they are so hungry for food that if their is a little food they eat whatever they can and eat other puppies in the process.How these poor dogs and their puppies have no protection from the cold or heat or rain and snow. Why don't you write about the truth of what puppymills really are? How about doing a story on the dog auctions ? because the dogs who are old and mangled and can no longer produce a litter are sold in auction as opposed to be being tossed aside and forgotten about or being shot in the head.Why don't you do a story on rescues? The people who put their heart and souls into trying to save dogs that are so sick from these puppymills. Or do a story on how everyday thousands of healthy dogs are dieing in our shelters because no one wants them. Do you realize the hard work, emotion,time and money that goes into rescue? How people in rescue beg to find good,foster homes for beautiful, healthy puppies and dogs so they won't be put to sleep? Please, help educate the public as to what really goes on in puppymills. The story you ran in your magazine has done such an injustice to all the puppy's and dogs. Why don't you do spend a few days with those who work in rescue and see what really goes on? Don't promote puppymills by the story you did of this teenage boy who has his mother help him. Write a story about the truth of what suffering puppymills are.
I agree with #5910, "This child needs to further his education about animals" He's already caught up in corporate greed and leaving heart and soul behind.
I am utterly disgusted at the fact that your magazine would support this business, and actually promote it! Do you research ANY of the businesses you promote? I visited the sight and it made me sick. Your magazine has mislead its readers to an immeasurable degree. You owe it to your audience to rectify this situation and print an article that's founded in RESEARCH. Write about the other side of the coin, about what happens when an unknowing public takes your word and buys their puppies from a puppy mill such as the one you endorsed. It would be wonderful if they could hold your magazine responsible for the vet bills, broken hearts, and dead puppies that your endorsement will bring them. Congratulations on hitting the bottom.
I am so disappointed in the lack of research of this story. To call this teen an entrepreneur Instead of the true title of puppy miller is an insult to your readers intelligence. I hope you print a retraction about the use of this article as well as present a story detailing puppy mills and irresponsible breedings as well as the amount of animals in shelters across the nation.
