What a shame you (People Magazine) would promote the suffering of innocent animals in puupy mills. Please open your eyes to and promote the abolishment mills. Lets promote rescue, go RAGOM.ORG!, not animal abuse.
Milling of or brokering of dogs/puppies is a form a slavery no matter how you slice it. Slavery was abolished years ago, why wasn't man's best friend protected from this travesty?
I do not agree with the breeding of different dog breeds for profit. And I certainly abhor selling pups in Pet Shops and on the Internet.
This Mom and Son act should be ashamed of themselves !!!
When I read the article in People Magazine I became very upset & began to draft a letter to the editor. I am extremely disappointed in the magazine for printing an article about an obvious puppymill.
No reputable breeder breeds and sells puppies for profit. A responsible breeder breeds to promote a healthy example of the breed standard. This young man is breeding hyperglocimic genetic messes.
Why didnt' someone encourage this young manwith all this energy to look into ways to help Shelters and Rescues. It would certainly help the animals of the world and send a 'good' message to his peers. Please, People Magazine, lets have further research into such a serious topic. Maybe they can redeem themselves by doing a story on Shelters/unwanted animals and the Rescues and people that try to help. Education is the KEY.
This is horrible!!! These people are in obvious need of some major education on puppy mills, etc. This sort of thing needs to be stopped. Its cruel and only the sick, cruel, money hungry morons profit off of these innocent animals. Please find another business and educate yourself on animal welfare!!
How pathetic that your magazine doesn't care how a young person gets his money...just as long as he gets it! I'm sure there are some young pimps and drug dealers out there that are "entrepreneurs" also. Can we look forward to an article praising them also? Such irresponsible reporting is deplorable.
This is horrendous and shouldn't be used as an example of a budding entrepreneur. If he were saving dogs from puppymills it would be one thing but actually establishing a puppymill - I'm disgusted!
Please do an article and feature such places as the Memphis Animal Shelter, where at least 70% of the animals are put to sleep - some accidentally, while rescues are on the way to pick the animals up! That is an unbelievable story! Please look into that.
Sally Olp
Please, do the right thing. Print a story educating people that making money by breeding dogs should be left to those with TRUE expierience by someone who has a passion for the future success of the breed, and not just a kid who needs some cash for a CD, car, or whatever. Even the need for college money doesn't excuse this.
Euthinasia for animals should not be a form of animal control, just as abortion shouldn't be a form of birth control.
Isnt it wonderful that your magazine wants to focus on the cruel, pathetic puppy mill business and not on the thousands of people who work full time jobs and full time rescue spending mostly their own money to save the dogs and puppies that are a result of people like you are doing this story on. Thank you for giving yet another reason to continue rescue, ignorance in the general population at large.
An article on puppy mills will reflect well on the quality of People magazine! Hope you choose to do such an article -- your magazine's excellent writers could do so much about this issue.
Sincerely,
Farrell Adrian
Seattle, WA
Pets adopted from a shelter owe you their lives and will always remember and appreciate being in a real home. Is there really any place else to get a pet?
How does one who loves animals so much think this is right? I feel so bad for all those unwanted animals out there, that are being killed everyday, if I had more money and power I would take all the dogs in the world into my life, people can be so cruel, you need to be ashamed of yourself making money off of an animal that cant defend themselves, this is beyond reasoning, think about what your doing to these poor pups. STOP THE ABUSE
As a vet tech I see the kind of animals that come from people like this. It makes me sick! The animals are in poor health and WAY inbred! I will not be reading another people magazine until this issue is resolved! Always, Reader or many many years!
Why am I not suprised? Animals have long suffered because of the stupidity of humans. Why on earth a magazine such as People, would promote such a thing is beyond comprehension. How horrible that a mother could teach her child that animals are disposable. And we wonder what is wrong with kids today!!!
What were these people thinking?
I think they thought this was a creative way of making money but how would they like it if someone stuffed them in a cage after being holed up in a laundry room and then sent to God knows where.
I really doubt that they are spending the money to have these animals "vet-checked" and shots etc.....
Really makes me sick.
As the mother of a teenage daughter who has such a spirit for helping animals in need, I can't believe there are others out there who are so cavalier in their attitude toward breeding and making money. We need more teenagers to visit local shelters and see the end products of "entrepreneurs" such as young Timothy Hampson. Doing so would certainly bring a bit of humility to their over zealous lives!
How horrible. I am suprised and horrified, yes HORRIFIED that People Magazine would even think about prinnting an article such as that. Get off your butts and go visit a puppy mill or two, THEN see what you think of what this kid is doing and whther of not you would still applaud him!!!
We have puppy mills even here in Australia. We follow the US in many things - perhaps if your country closes down puppy mills, those here in Oz will realise their time has come.
This is out and out outragous, these are animals not products!!!!! This kid needs to get a life and a real job! Maybe finish school first! These puppies are being tortured!
As a groomer I've seen the dogs people like this "teen titan" produce and sell to the unsuspecting public and it is pitiful. And these mixed breeds being sold at outrageous prices proves that there is a sucker born every minute.
There are a million reasons that this makes me sick to my stomach. What 16 year old knows enough to sell legitimately healthy puppies? Shame on the "breeders" who would dare allow a 16 year old to sell their "healthy" puppies. By the way any healthy puppy would not need vitamin by ANY brand every day to keep it healthy.
The World is full of poorly socialized and unwanted pets. Breeding puppies purely out of pecuniary interest, will certainly add to the numbers of unwanted pets, simply because they are sold to unscreened and poorly selected owners. These are the pets who end up being euthanized in the shelters. The puppymills cater to the consumermentality, where you buy a cute puppy and throw it out when it does real live things and becomes a nuissance to the unprepared owner. You need to present the real story of puppymilling!
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME !
Shame on a mother who encourages her child to prosper by creating more animals to suffer in shelters later.
Shame on a " Teen Titan " who cannot think of a kind, harmless way to practice his entrepreneurial skills.
SHAME on a magazine that celebrates ignorance rather than condemn it.
Write about this young man when he recues discarded dogs and cats from a shelter or the streets and finds them new loving homes.
NOTE TO TIMOTHY HAMPSON: - Try making money out of doing good !
I absolutely will NOT re-new my subscription to People after reading this pathetic article. We also receive 4 subscriptions of this magazine at my office which hopefully I will convince the owner to not re-new as well.
There are so many wonderful homeless pets in shelters being put to sleep every day! And people who are carefully breeding quality animals that will bring us healthy future generations, that they strive to place in caring committed homes. Please help put an end up puppymilling!
Shame on you People's magazine! What were you thinking to publish & promote teenager 'Titans' with goals for PROFIT ... INSTEAD of "QUALITY CONSIOUS BREEDING"!!!
People Magazine has missed the mark in praising this young man's business efforts. Our nation is overflowing with unwanted pets provided by disreputable "breeders" who are only in search of profit and blatantly disregard the needs of the dogs that they sell thus contributing to over crowded shelters and a host of mistreated, abandoned or neglected pets.Surely People magazine should consider the type of business when determining to whom they are giving the spotlight..shame on this publication for contributing to the horrible plight of puppy mill dogs by praising this misguided youth.
This is an abominal practice. Who knows how many more of these poor little souls will end up in puppy mills, or in rescue!! Please get this stopped--NOW!!
Please do not allow this puppymill to keep operating. This was the wrong example of entrepreneualship to be shown to people. Please write an article about rescue groups and puppymills!
I have not read the article, but from what is being said, some young teen, with the help of his mother, is making money on the innocent souls of puppies. Their only want is to be loved just 1/2 as much as they love us. If we can't stop this kind of business, then let us at least educate people on what it does to these innocent beings.
This truly stinks. I
will be cancelling my
husband's subscrip-
tion. He will not
waste one red cent of
ours on your magazine.
You are truly a poor
excuse for as an editor.
I have two dogs that were rescued from a puppymill containing 240 chihuahuas. The people who run these puppymills should be forced to live the way they treat the dogs! How anyone could do that to these wonderful little rescued dogs we've adopted is way beyond my comprehension! After 7 months we are finally starting to gain their trust.
I'm not against people making money...I'm just against people making money THAT way. I'm also against People mag.for irresponsible reporting of said endeavor.
Let's quit promoting the exploitation of animals to inflate people's egos. Dogs can be a wonderful part of people's lives, but they should not be an impulse purchase
Please do not allow these poor animals to be portrayed as inanimate objects. They are living beings and deserve to be treated with respect, not sold to the highest bidder.
This shameful business is beyond comprehension and should never be featured as a success story. People magazine should be ashamed of themselves for putting this sad state of a breeding operation in the magazine. I doubt I will ever purchase this magazine again.
These little lives that are sold for profit and often end up at shelters while their parents suffer in puppy mills should be the topic of the story, not a greedy "entrepreneur" who's making money off of them.
People Magazine should be ashamed of promoting a business based on pet abuse. Try researching how peuppy & kitten mills are run and then see how you feel about "Teen Titan" Timothy Hampson.
I will not be reading your magazine from now on.
I have nine purebred dogs living (very comfortably) with me. Eight are "rescues," and most of these probably products of such evil operations as Mr. Sampson encourages. FAR from being an enterpreneurial "Titan," as this article suggests, Mr. Sampson is, IN FACT, a purveyor of misery. SHAME on him! SHAME on his mother for assisting him! And shame on People Magazine for lauding him and his ilk!!
Dogs are not humans, They are nonetheless sentient creatures, and deserve better than Mr. Sampson gives them. He is an agent of animal abuse of the worst sort, and should be censured, not praised.
Anybody can make a fast buck. Making it honorably is something very different and much more difficult.
Mr. Sampson needs to learn the meaning--and the rewards--of honorable work. Clearly he has not yet done so.
Mr. Sampson needs pity and education, not praise. Perhaps he should spend a month working in person at a puppy mill, and another month working in a high-kill "shelter" to learn first-hand of the true wages of his enterpreneurial enterprise. Such an apprenticeship would teach him far more about the realities of animal welfare than does the time he now spends at his computer.
People magazine, you have outdone yourself in tastelessness and ignorance! I bought an occassional issue, but you have just effectively persuaded me to never ever do so again!
I feel that this is a travisty for a child to be making money on animals from unreputable people...
with all of the dogs that are shelters all ready from these people...that reputable people have to save and find homes for...this is horrible
I'm sure there are plenty of teens doing meaningful work that could be featured. Why encourage dog breeding without dog health as a major factor? They may be cute dogs but along with cuteness genes can come terrible health problems. This is a primary consideration of eputable breeders.
When are those who govern our societies with laws going to hear those of us that speak for those who cannot. PLEASE, put a stop to unnecessary breeding. Let's work to save the lives of unwanted animals dumped in shelters and celebrate when we close shelters because they are no longer needed.
I've been a high population shelter employee for 20+ years. I see first hand the results of "for profit" breeders; health & temperament problems + inappropriate owners = JOB SECURITY!!! I'd rather look for a job where euthanizing worthy animals wasn't required.
