Please include an educational article about puppy mills & shelter/rescue animals to present a balance to the article you've already featured. "People" has a responsibility to do so.
VERY irresponsible People!! Now I know why I avoid your awful publication like the plague. I will make sure that telle everyone that I know to do the same. SHAME ON YOU!!!!
I have been a subscriber to People Magazine since its inception, but I am now thinking of cancelling my subscription after the article featuring the teen, Timothy Hampson, who sells dogs on the internet for his own financial gain at the expense of the animals. Please feature positive articles promoting responsible dog ownership rather than profit above all else and the welfare of helpless animals. The Timothy Hamspon article promotes the cruel puppymill business. Shame on you!!
Please adopt a more responsible attitude toward pet stewardship in your articles. If you had done your homework on the pet breeding industry, you would have realized that this individual and his mother should not be singled out as examples of responsible breeder behavior.
Please provide your readers the OTHER side of the story. Those puppies that are oh, so cuddly, and just too cute are a FULL committment for 9-20 years. Many people don't realize this, they tire of the cute puppy and resent being "tied down" and drop it off at the shelter. Please educate your readers about the number of dogs that are PTS and are waiting in shelters for a second chance.
It may be admirable in a business sense to build a profitable business breeding dogs that are healthy and conform to breed standards. The best professional breeders have a great interest in supporting and maintaining the highest standards in their particular breed(s). It is a reprehensible practice to breed dogs and then "sell" them on the internet, placing them with in uninspected homes with people who may or may not be well matched with a particular breed. Those who overbreed their *****es with little thought for their physical and/or emotional health and then "sell" their offspring to people whom they know nothing of save their ability to pay a certain price are not "breeders" in the honorable sense. They are puppy millers and should find another line of "entrepreneurship"
As flowery as you wanted to make this "young businessman" sound, he is nothing but a puppymiller. Shame on you, People magazine. I request a full article on the horrors of puppy mills and their brokers.
From working at 2 large inner-city shelters, over 40% of our animals were purebred dogs that were turned in from irresponsible owners. Please do not promote this young man as a true entrepreneur. I would encourage him to take the responsible high road as place to sell dog clothing and accessories, or other necessary pet products.
This is a disgrace and unless another article is published expressing the necessity to put this type of "business" out of business for good - I'll never read another People Magazine again.
It's the media's job to promote awareness. You have a MORAL OBLIGATION to stop these puppy mills. Start doing something good for the world rather than merely writing about trivial trash like celebrity gossip.
I'm sorry to see that your magazine is this irresponsible. You are in a position to be part of the solution, yet you choose to be part of the problem.
I hope you will now do a followup article on this breeder and what has happened to all of those puppies.
As a veterinary student I find an article promoting puppy mills and selling of animals through the internet very offensive. I am suprised to see People Magazine not doing further research about the matter prior to publishing and supporting a such terrible industry.
We have rescued a puppy mill puppy and he has had a very hard life. This poor boy lived in a chicken wire cage, stacked one on top of the other,outdoors in the south. He had never had socialization, good food, his own toy or bowl. He is a living creature, and he is now recovering. How can People highlight those who engage in such a disgusting practice? To sell MAGAZINES! How can those who create MORE MILLS in good conscience add to this overwhelming problem for the sake of the almighty buck? Please, consider a compassionate story to highlight teen entrepreneurs. People magazine should be more responsible.
Advocating sales of puppies this way is enough for me to end my subscription to your magazine. I commend this young man for his iniative, however wish he were more informed about the puppies he sells. These creatures should not be treated as a commodity. They come from horrid conditions and there is no assuarance of a happy home at the end of their journey. Ignorance is not an excuse.
Please print any articles that supports improved animal welfare. I have friends and family who do not know about puppy mills and continue to "buy" pets when there are too many in rescue and shelters. Only education will bring a change. Ignorance is bliss! Knowledge is Power! Help stop puppy mills.
This needs to stop and that a national magazine would have such a thing and seemingly promote such a thing is beyond the pale.
Shame on People magazine, for not have the forethought to look into this better before publishing it and making it sound like such a good thing.
The totally uninvolved attitude of this kid and him mother only fosters putting puppies into potentially abusive homes.
I cannot believe any national publication would so support animal abuse.
This is one case where I wish the wrath of PETA on uoui.
This article is disgusting! Promoting a boy that doesn't realize what he's doing is running a puppy mill! Why not try to educate him about what he's doing? I hope this article is retracted and the truth about animal care & breeding is published instead.
Selling dogs over the internet is dangerous for the dog. Who knows what kind of environment they'll end up in? Puppy mills are a disgrace and should be outlawed. Please feature an article that exposes the truth about puppy mills!
I have a pure bred dog that I rescued. Why? Because the petstore he was purchased from did nothing to prepare or screen his owners to determine if he was an appropriate choice for their family. He wasn't!! He is a wonderful dog but he needed someone able to deal with his high energy and creativity. Since adopting him, I've become involved with rescue and am continually saddened by the numbers of people who throw away their puppymill dog because they just didn't know what they were getting. People should be raising the awareness of the abuse of innocent creatures for the sole purpose of making money. Please consider an article about puppymills, the shelters, and what happens to "man's best friend" under these conditions.
What does a young boy know about selling puppies? Your magazine should not in any way promote irresponsible breeding and glorify puppy mills! How about an article on just where all these puppies come from?!?
This is NOT a good example of a young person using free enterprise. I hope the young man is just uninformed about where these pups come from, will do some ressearch, and will stop immediately.
This is a sham and an outrage. This is merely a brokerage for puppy milling, using a 16 year old's face as a "come on" to make it seem legitimate.
This type of "news" makes me sick. People Magazine ought to be ashamed that they took this garbage hook, line and sinker and ran with it.
Puppy mills basicly breed unheathly animals in poor conditions. They do not do genetic testing for inherited deseases either, as do most repuable breeders
I Dont Think I Will Ever BUY ANOTHER ISSUE OF PEOPLE Magazine AGAIN ! I DO DALMATIAN RESCUE & THIS STORY MAKES ME WANNA PUKE ! HOW COULD YOUR EDITORS LET THIS HAPPEN???Do SOMETHING FOR RESCUEING DOGS.......IF ANYTHING !! YOU KNOW HOW MANY ABUSED & HOMELESS DOGS ARE OUT THERE ??? HELP THEM !!!!!.... "I SAY" !
There is just no excuse for supporting a business that "sells" animals. Adoption from honest, caring breeders and shelters ensure the safety of both pet and family.
Your article praising Timothy Hampson's success selling dogs over the internet from puppy mills is amazingly careless. Puppy mills are cruel; they breed the females as often as they can, keep them in overcrowded, dirty cages, separate the puppies too soon, and don't provide socialization for the dogs.They don't care if the puppies end up as pit bull bait or starved to death, tied up in someone's back yard. No one should encourage their growth by purchasing dogs from them. Please research and publish an article reporting the conditions and lack of government oversight at these puppy mills; perhaps when people realize how hurtful they are, they will avoid them. I have two collies who were badly neglected, adopted from a rescue group; too many good dogs are being destroyed due to over population. Even more are living miserable lives. Responsible breeders screen homes prior to placing puppies, and do not use sick dogs for breeding, unlike puppy mills.
I look forward to your article on puppy mills - Mrs. Abbie Schaub, RN.
I used to like People Magazine, however I will not purchase or read it again since you are supporting PUPPYMILLS! An estimated 4 to 6 million dogs and cats are euthanized in America's
animal shelters each year because they are not wanted by anyone,
anywhere. Encouraging this type of entrepreneaur is disgusting.
