please wake up and see the puppy mills are wrong and people behind them should be punished.dogs are living creatures just like humans and should be treated better.look at all these poor animals in shelters that are put down everyday becuase of people abandoning them.if you really want a pet get one that really needs a home.save them from being put down.i wonder what god thinks of behavior like this?
Shame on you, People magazine! Your article demonstrates a disturbing lack of understanding of the puppymill industry and, worse, disseminates this ignorant perspective to millions of readers. Please, you must now RESEARCH and write an intelligent story on the subject, correcting the naivete and misinformation you have spread.
I read People Magazine regualrly and was HORRIFIED to find on the the teen business owners that you were honoring is nothing but a "glorified puppy miller"! He should not be honored as what he is doing is immoral and unethical. People should now publish an article on puppy millers (a widespread problem in the U.S.) and include www.cuddlypuppy.com as one of the problem. How would u like to be stuck in a cage and forced to pump out puppies for ur entire life?
Why promote breeding when the country already has so many animals in need. Very upset with People Magazine for promoting such an aweful thing. This kid is no "teen titan".
The "Teen Titan" should be put into prison for his involvment and contribution in keeping puppy mills in business and not made a celebrety by writing him up for his great financial sucess!
Glorifying this teen as an up-and-coming entrepreneur is an outrage. What this teen is doing, with the help of his thoughtless mother, is something anyone with a conscience would be asamed of. Shame on you for glorifying this mother and son puppymill! The American public would benefit more from articles about people who rescue animals, not those who exploit animals for their own greed.
This is just an easy way for someone to make money. It puts nothing back into society except unwanted and unloved animals. Lets concentrate on the animals that are here now at shelters who need homes instead of breeding new ones who will only end up at these shelters or worse places.
People need to be alerted to the plight of dogs in the puppy mills. We don't need to encourage anyone else to get into the business of making money at the expense of an innocent animal suffering. Maybe this young man needs to put his energies into helping solve the plight of thousands of homeless animals who face an uncertain future.
Please publish a follow up article informing the public about the sad fate of the dogs who are used for breeding and the sad plight of their offspring.
I will not buy this magazine again, unless something is written about the alternitives to puppy mills. www.petfinder.com for lots of dogs that need homes!
Please don't applaud people for contributing to puppymills and th eir growth. Rather help educate the public about the horros of puppymills and the fate of these defenseless animals.
Please retract your article in the next issue; alerting readers to the true nature of puppymills. Perhaps some education for the young entrepreneur and the People editorial staff is needed.
Please do an article about puppymills and rescue dogs - your article on 'Teen Titans' will undoubtedly create more problems with dogs sold indiscriminately, without carefully screening potential owners as to their committment to giving these new pets "forever" homes
Please shut down these horrible puppy mills, and I hope People magazine AND Entertainment Tonight (did a feature on Designer mixes) will realize just the tragedy they are encouraging. Puppy mills are the black sheep in the breeding business and they are casting a raincloud on the reputable breeders who breed for the better of the existing breed and do not care about the money. I just wish that the public would realize that sometimes, things are too good to be true:(
I would encourage People Magazine to do an article on the True Side of puppy mills. A lot of these animals and there off spring end up in Shelters and Rescue groups. Puppy mills need to be exposed for what they are, HORRIBLE places. Usually covered in filth, with animals that are in poor physical and emotional condition.Caged, to never allow them freedom. Most of the time only getting by with very bare neccesities, if that!!
They do not know love or the touch of a caring hand. If you have not seen the result of these horrible places, or in the case, not looked for the truth, you can not possible imagine what these animals go through, what there life, for months or years can be like.
As a National reconized magazine. I would encourage you to find the TRUTH behind this type of industry before you decide to praise someone who is a part of it, therefore part of the problem.
This is not a good thing. To many of these animals end up in shelters as people don't know what they are getting. Please do an article on rescues, how about polling to see articles on dogs that get a bad rap for no reason like rotts.
This is not a story of success but a story of greed at the expense of other creatures. Please include an article on the plight of puppies/kittens sold indiscriminatly. Their story is a sad and never ending one.
There is no excuse for People magazine to beexploitive of animals. Noone should be SELLING animals to begin with, but selling animals over the Internet shows total disregard and really a hostility toward the animals by tossing them into unknown situations.Puppy selling is frowned upon by every animal rescue org worldwide and People magazine is lauding this business? Disgusting!
Try telling the horrors of the results of these puppy mills. Timothy Hampson is NOT an entrepreneur, he's a modern day "slave trader". Think about it. His family is just as guilty and heartless.
I would have much preferred that you write an article about puppy mills and the horrors they produce. This article promotes the puppy mill practice and I truly hope that the person will rethink their idea and maybe do a search on the internet on puppy mills. Selling pets online is a disgrace in my opinion.
This young man should not be encouraged - he is basically using puppy mills to sell dogs. Does he screen his buyers to see if they are good prospective "parents"? What respectable breeder would sell him puppies to sell over the internet? This was an ill-advised article and I hope you will take steps to rectify this glorification of a sordid practice.
Featuring any article that promotes the mistreatment of dogs, or any animal, is a disgrace. Perhaps your editor needs to be changed and someone with more intelligence should take their place. If you want to spotlight animal stories, start showcasing the countless groups and individuals that aid animals in need and attempt to prevent animal cruelty including puppy mills. If your editor found a baby mill, where women were kept in cramped cages and bred immediately after they gave birth, living in their own excrement, being urinated on by pregnant women in cages above them, starved and denied water until they were near death, among other atrocities that routinely happen to animals, your editor would place this type of information on the cover in order to assist those women in need. Why is your editor not doing the same to help defenseless animals? The entire genre of your publication needs a serious overhaul. Your concerns are misdirected. If you continue to highlight articles such as the one referenced about the 16 year old twerp selling the puppies from puppy mills, perhaps you should change the name of your magazine to Monsters. Perhaps that would best represent its contents.
Regards,
Alexandra Garrett
Manhattan, NY
Just what we all need ...more uninformed dog owners buying on a whim. If someone really wanted a pet they would go the distance to research and support responsible breeders. Maybe you should re-think / reconsider who you (People Mag) applaude for their entrepreneurial savvy.
As someone who is involved with animal rescue I find this article disgraceful and so unfortunate for the animal that are coming from puppy mills. People magazine should do an article about the other side of this, sick animals that have many problems. Maybe this young entrepreneur should volunteer at a local shelter or donate his money!
Lovely. Just what we need. More support for puppy mills, that never ending torture for these poor breeding souls. Dogs who spend their lives locked in tiny crates, having to sleep, eat and whelp in their own feces and urin. Ill because infested with every imaginable parasite, usually too week to stand when forcefully being bred. Some have never seen a ray of sunshine. Stimulation are harsh voices, heavy hands and other corporal punishment. And when the millers are done with them (when the litters are too small), the 'lucky' ones may get sold at an auction -- to another miller. The 'real lucky' ones get hit with a hammer and tossed behind the barn to die.
People Magazine, you have outdone yourself, encouraging such entepreneurship! You are now on my official "RAG" list. Shame on you. Perhaps you should look into the blank eyes of the little lives, out of which (in my opinion) parasites such as the Hampson Family, suck some bucks. It's called being an enterpreneur when they're too lazy to do an honest day's work, eh?
This teenager is just profiting from unscrupulous puppy mills. No reputable breeder would ever permit their puppies to be sold in this manner. Look into it further and find out where the puppies are actually coming from
We need articles of humane triumph and ethical teachings so you can only enrich your readers more. Any articles that encourage abuse should never be published, let alone applauded.
People Magazine needs to help educate the public. Misinformation is being published in major newspapers about 2 pedigree breedings being a new pedigree[sic]
All this misinformation assists these poor animals to be misplaced and dumped.
Disgusting and disgraceful to endorse and advertise such a business to profit from the exploitation and resulting abuse and neglect of those unable to defend themselves.
Please devote equal print-space to balance your article!
I feel it was very irresponsible of your magazine to feature this article. There are so many teens out there doing good things to help people and animals. One of my dogs a miniature poodle was rescued from a puppymill. When I adopted him he was emaciated, sickly and scared to death of people. Please print an article that makes people of the devastating effects of puppy mills. There are many reputable breeders out there that actually care about where there puppies are going. They should be applauded.
The editors of People Magazine and this young man need to spend a few days working in a high kill, over crowded animal shelter or better yet with a breed rescue who have just rescued dogs from puppy mills. They could experience first hand what is being promoted by selling puppies over the internet and not properly screening prospective homes.
Have you no sense ?! Have you not followed the horrific rescue stories of previous years? Would you like to trade spaces with these innocent 4 legged creatures? Visit the City Animal Pound in St. Louis where gas chambers are currently used to put thousands of animals to sleep each year. (Thankfully that will be changing in the future) Read about Randy Grim and Stray Rescue. Educate yourselves before you look at the bottom line---making money isn't always a sign of success. Just ask the puppies.
Buyer beware! Puppies raised in cages in a kitchen and laundry room? PEOPLE Magazine - you should be ashamed for allowing ink to this story. This young man and his mom and sister know absolutely nothing about the proper way to raise, train and socialize young puppies.
I am so disappointed in this article. As a person involved in rescue I am disgusted and sadden that you would consider this anymore than just what it is - a puppymill. I will no longer buy your magazine and will encourage my friends and relatives to stop purchasing the magazine also. Your article slams all individuals in rescue and the ones that try to be responsible breeders. Shame on you!
I am very dissapointed on peoples magazine to promote this type of business. How can anyone be proud of such an inhuman act, as we know what puppy mills do and how many poor creatures are produced. If everyone knew the pain and suffering that these poor dogs go through, it is not the wonderful life that people think. Thes mills are out to make money regardless of the filth and starvation these poor aniamls have to endure. How dare anyone be proud of pronmoting this and writting a story on it. I am sure if they would have done their homework first to see how these mills were run, they would have maybe thought twice about publishing it, Stop this advertising to promote puppy mills, from a rescue collie that was in the same situation. Terry and Sadie
Both Hampson and People Magazine have demonstrated a sickening lack of responsibility. Perhaps a field trip to the 'kill room' of a local shelter is in order. Whatta ya say?
I will not buy your magazine in the future until I see an article that represents the truth about puppymills and the suffering, not only of the pups bred so irresponsibly, but their parents who spend their entire lives in abusive, neglected environments, caged for years in lonely, isolated filth.
Puppy mills are a huge issue today and most people don't even know anything about them. If you want to inform the public, why not write an in depth article about the puppy mills behind the scenes of Tim Hampson's budding business. Kids and adults need to learn the reality behind those "cuddly puppies" instead of just seeing a cuddly website!
I am shocked that a magazine like People Magazine could possibly support someone who is nothing more than a puppymill or backyard breeder who cares nothing about the animals but money! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON YOU FOR ENCOURGING THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS AND PROMOTING IT EVEN FURTHER! DOESN'T ANYONE READ ABOUT THE HORRORS AND SUFFERING OF THE ANIMALS AT THE EXPENSE OF PROFIT? Double shame on the person who approved this article!!!
Have you read the references page at cuddlepuppy.com??????.... He actually put a byer who bought a multipoo, but did not even know how a multipoo looked grown up, she was asking for a picture!!!!!....guess how many customers don't even know how to take care of their puppies.....
I work with a rescue. I see close up the results of people who breed dogs as a business. It's unethical and inhumane. Shame on you People Magazine for patting that boy and his family on the back for adding to the pet overpopulation problem.
I found the article to be disgusting. PEOPLE magazine should be promoting responsible pet ownership, not selling animals for profit. I am sure there are many more outstanding teenage entrepeneurs out there instead of this uneducated young man.
I am really appalled that People magazine would run such an article. They certainly should know better. I hope their celebrity base reads them the riot act on this.
