Is this "Teen Titan" aware of the millions of animals that are euthanized each year -- for the sole reason that there aren't enough good homes for them?? Mr. Teen Titan is pursuing wealth via puppy mill -- and those are truly ill-gotten gains. I hope he fails miserably and quickly. UNTIL THERE ARE NO HOMELESS ANIMALS, ADOPT ONE FROM A SHELTER OR A RESCUE.
How can you congradulate a person who is making a profit at the expesne of the welfare of an innocent animal? Please educate the public of the tragedy of puppy mills.
It's a shame you don't bother to research your material - or if you do, that you are so irresponsible as to print material like this.
A Pox on you!
Dorothy
It is never right for anyone other than the breeder to sell their puppies direct to their new homes. Shame on People Magazine for
thinking this was an acceptable enterprize and shame on the boy's mother for allowing it.
I think this is absolutely appalling -- the fact that a nationally read magazine would publicize something like this is outrageous. I think some of the folks at People should reassess their choice of stories before deciding to publish them.
SHAME ON PEOPLE MAGAZINE FOR PUBLISHING THE STORY AND SHAME ON THE IRRESPONSIBLE BREEDERS SUPPLYING THE PUPS AND THE UNINFORMED BUYING THE PUPS. IT IS A VERY SAD CHAIN AND THE BIGGEST LOSERS ARE THE BADLY BRED DOGS LOADED WITH GENETIC DEFECTS. ALL PUPPIES ARE CUTE.AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE ATTRACTING THE BUYERS WITH AND GETTING TOP PRICES FOR LESSER THAN PET QUALITY PURE BREDS AND MUTTS. THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY DAY AND PEOPLE MAGAZINE JUST HELPED THEM GLORIFY AND SELL THEIR WARE.
How sad that greed & ignorance & total disregard for animal welfare earns the title of 'teen titan.'
'Teen torturor' is more like it. A magazine I've always enjoyed has truly let me down. You need to redeem yourselves by featuring an article on puppy mills, backyard breeders & animal abuse, & the dog rescues who take in these tormented creatures.
I am extremely upset with the printing of this article in your recent Nov.8 issue! Many responsible breeders work very hard to protect their breeds and to encourage responsible breeding and ownership. This article goes against these values. So many pets end up at shelters because of poor education and screening before they buy a puppy. This family needs to be educated and not glorified!
I think this young man and his mother need to do some volunteer work at a local animal shelter . . . then maybe they will change their minds about the business they are running.
This is apalling and an insult to reputable breeders. As a hobbyist in the comformation ring in AKC events, one who does health testing at considerable costs to potential dams and sires, one who spends countless dollars to have my breeding stock evaluated and who enforces spay-neuter contracts with potential pet owners, this is a slap in the face. Cancel my subscription please!
Pleasure run a retraction of your article. This child is obviously frequenting puppy mills that we have tried so hard to put out of business. For the sake of the animals...please
I would think People would know better than to praise something that is so obviously associated with the attrocious practice of puppymilling. I pray and hope you will make it up by allowing an article exposing the attrocities of this practice.
I am extremely upset with the printing of this article in your recent Nov.8 issue! Many responsible breeders work very hard to protect their breeds and to encourage responsible breeding and ownership. This article goes against these values. So many pets end up at shelters because of poor education and screening before they buy a puppy. This family needs to be educated and not glorified!
What a lesson this mother is teaching her son. At his age, he should have been taught that "dog is man's best friend", instead of his next dollar! Week after week, another puppy mill horror story hits the news, yet People magazine chooses to applaud someone who is part of this ugly industry? Real civic responsibility there People!!
You have made an enormous contribution to dog overpopulation and misery. What were you thinking? Clearly, you did absolutely no research on this topic whatsoever, thereby doing many animals and their rescuers AND the shelters a terrible disservice. How about a very large contribution to an animal rescue group(s)? It's the least you can do.
This story is horrific! Please educate yoruselves before printing matters of this sort. If this family wanted to help why not adopt out the animals in shelters?? The magazine may want to contribute a nice chunk to said shelters instead of encouraging puppy slavery
This is just shameful! This is a puppy mill, pure and simple! Why don't you highlight a teen who tries to save animals instead of one who exploits them!
I think Mom and Son need some heavy duty educating! An article on puppymills and the harm they cause would be an eye opener! That would be something good!I will look for such an article in the near future!
You're so disgusted! Look what you've done to those poor innocent puppies! They don't deserve that!!! Please consider to save so many poor dogs and puppies from shelters anywhere before they're put to sleep for nothing. Ban puppymills!
There are enough puppy mills out there,and so many dogs and pups needing good homes in shelters all over i hope these people will realise with all the mail they have gotten that its not worth it to have any of these in their mag.
To treat dogs the way they are treated in puppy-mills is an unbelievable crime. Just because they don't have a voice of their own doesn't mean that they deserve to be treated like dirt! We need to help the helpless!
Ok People - now let's see the "other" side of puppy mills and what they are REALLY about - show people the horrors of how these cuddly puppies come to be!! Let's tell the truth about this horrible vocation.
This is a disgrace to all pet owners everywhere. I have always been taught that you should research any place that you buy a puppy from. This does not provider the opportunity to verify that this young man is breeding puppies for the benefit of the dog breeds and not the money.
Pet owners try to discourage people from buying from places like this because you don’t know the quality of the dogs that are being sold, which may lead to very high health expenses.
Even if this young man is not breeding these dogs, the breeders that are supplying him may very well be breeding poor quality dogs for profit. Does he know enough about these puppies to guarantee what he is selling?
Please help us in our fight to shut down puppy mills and similar places. We want to breed only quality pets.
why would such a reputable magazine encourage this behavior this is just another type of puppy mill dont you people relize the pain and suffering that goes on to put a stop to this not countng the time and personal money...shame on you for patting anyone on the back for making money on the suffering of animals....
What people (general public) won't do for a dollar. People (general public) need to, as does the 17 year old, educate themselves on the subject of our current over-population of dogs and pups already dying in America, its tragic. SPAY AND NEUTER education for animal owners is needed, WHO CAN PROVIDE, local shelters, vets, friends(?) How can WE get the message/information out? CAN YOU (People Mag) OPEN THERE EYES. Its a start.
I can't believe that a "reputable" magazine would print such a story. People Magazine should be ashamed of themselves for not checking the facts first.
A dog breeder is someone who breeds dogs to improve a breed. Condoning a puppy mill in a magazine such as People Magazine, is asking for as many problems as possible in the dogs he is producing which will only result in dogs of lesser quality, and heartbroken owners.
I volunteer at an animal shelter. If you had any idea of the suffering the puppy mill dogs go through and the efforts of uneducated owners trying to deal with their dogs' problems, you would not be so appreciative of this "entrepeneur." I'm talking about puppies that lie in their urine and feces because they don't know there is an option; puppies that have major health problems; puppies that are extremely fearful, don't want to be handled, and don't know how to act around other dogs. Please show some responsibility and tell people what irresponsible breeders and puppy mills are really producing: unhealthy, unbalanced puppies sold to unsuspecting people.
I agree with the others who have voiced thier disgust on this subject! How can people run an article like that? Its wrong in so many ways! How can we teach and educate people on the plight of puppy in mills when a magazine like People encourages it?! They need to do a story on shelter dogs and how short the lives of most dogs in shelters really are!
Well, are you happy that you are helping market dogs while thousands go unwanted and euthanized??
From your very uneducated stupid article I am sure this puppy peddler will profit when stupid uneducated people see the article and decide they want to have a "cuddly puppy" too.
Thanks for adding to the problem.
There is no excuse for anyone to be making money from the misery of other living creatures. Shame on People Magazine for promoting the shameful activity of puppy mills.
Puppy Mills are an offense to the relationship between man and the one true companion animal, the domestic canine. We have betrayed this companion in the most egregious of ways, but the worst is wehn we make them a money-making machine.
I rescue. I adopt dogs from shelters. I spay and neuter my pets to prevent unwanted and PERCEIVED Demand for my breed of dog.
And yes, all my friends and family do too.
End the slavery of puppymills.
As a responsible breeder of more than 30 years duration, I am appalled at the apparent endorsement of this form of puppy mill....just because the "owner" is a child. Responsible breeders want to meet and educate their puppy buyers and maintain contact with them for the life of the dog. Anyone who merchandises a puppy like it was so a non-living commodity is certainly NOT worthy of promotion in your magazine.
PLEASE STOP hurting animals to just make quick money. Pathetic that People magazine will be featuring this suffering as a positive thing- shame on them. No more buying "People" mag. for me & my family!
Why don't you send a reporter to a puppy mill or puppy mill auction and see what you're promoting first hand. It's horrid! I'm glad I've canceled my People subscription. Until you balance this and show the true result of such a "business", and all the millions of dogs killed by shelters every year, you can't possibly be considered fair or trustworthy in your reporting.
Is there any kind of background info retreived on these potential dog owners? What kind of soulless individual would sell mill-bred dogs to more puppymills? This only exacerbates the problem!
Dogs are man's bestfriend. Not to be produced for a profit.
My home is full of rescue dogs from puppy mills. These people care about the buck not the animals.
Puppymills are abusive to animals.
Dogs are destroyed daily because of over-population and the lack of spay and neuter awareness. Why would a reputable magazine promote a puppymill? It's beyond irresponsible!!
It is a mistake to give public acknowledment to a practice that has brought death to hundreds of thoudsands of animals. People Magazine has a responsibility to look at all aspects of a story line before it is published. If pubkished it should highlight the good and the bad, if they exist. One only needs to go on-line to look at the thousands up animals that have made it out of shelters and into rescue to hopefully be given a chance. It takes a great deal of knowledge and responsibility to breed anmals that are healthy, and have good temperments. I do hope that those responsible at People Magazine for printing this story will also research the other side of this story. I have adopted four dogs in the last three months. One of my dogs came froma puppy mill in Indiana where 82 dogs were euthanized, this is a everyday occurrence. Pleaze do a follow up story!!!!!!
