People need educated on puppy mills and the millers that run them. Not all are bad - but the majority have no concern as to where the animal is going just that they make a profit - THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED...Animals should be rescued, adopted - not sold like merchandise. They are living breathing creatures created by God - educate the people.
People Magazine should know better. They are making money on this article also. People are getting more and more informed about puppy mills. Hopefully!
Please do not condone the mistreatment and indiscriminate breeding of pets when MILLIONS are killed every year because they have no homes. Your research should have highlighted this in the first place. How about a teen entrepreneur who sells worthless cures, or harmful drugs while you're at it!!
There are too many cuddly puppies euthanized every day at Humane Society's. It is a shame when parents aren't able to teach their children compassion and consideration for one of God's creatures. People such as this family should have to work in a humane society and perform all of the difficult tasks from caring and providing for the animals, to euthanasia and disposal - perhaps the animals could teach them what they are missing.
I volunteer with Friends for Life, a no kill shelter. It is amazing how we come across some of the dogs we rescue.
One dog's owners moved and tied the dog to a tree to starve to death.
For some reason, people feel that pets are expendable.
This is a truly important issue and the public needs to be reminded of it.
With millions of animals being killed in shelters every year, couldn't this young person have found something more productive to do that would help eliminate suffering? Why would this type of "business" be something we'd encourage? These dogs will become throwaway pets as soon as their "cuteness" or novelty wears off and then where will they end up? Shelters across America--to wait with the others for their day to be euthanized.
Please, Please save our best friend that gives such unconditional love.
Puppymills should be outlawed. it is a crime to treat a living thing in such horrid ways.
I spoke with a couple at my vets office that had rescued a breeder ***** from a "farm" as they called it. They stated that she had produced well over 100 puppies in her lifetime. What a life. At least she has a good home now.
I believe that an article on shelters and animals that have been rescued, as well as, all of the caring people who willingly give countless hours to help and care for these animals would be very beneficial.
I should think a magazine like People would do their homework about puppy mills. For them to honor someone for promoting them is disgusting. Equal space should be allowed to tell the true story of puppy mills.
This should be illegal for financial gain without any consideration of the conditions these animals are kept in and no consideration of health issues that actual dog loving breeders try to breed and aleviate from the breeds they raise in loving homes. There are no teen entrepreneurs. Most kids at that age can't even be responsible to clean their room let alone take care of all these dogs in a humane way.
We need to become more aware and compassionate about the animals we bring into the world and into our homes. Puppy-mill breeders create unhealthy, poorly socialised animals. Until every animal born has a loving natural lifetime home, we encourage people to adopt at shelters and from rescue programs.
Sybil Erden, Exec. Director - The Oasis Sanctuary - Cascabel Arizona
Keep those ass holes in the farm for a week and see how they fare under those conditions!!!
I think it should be prison sentances and bans all round!!
MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL
This is nothing more than a puppy mills with no health testing or care for who breeds to what. Shame on you for featuring this business and condemning dogs to a life of proudicng puppies until they are too old or sick to do so.
I'm so ashamed that I have purchased a copy of a magizine that would print such a sad, sad thing. puppymills are wrong. please do an article on rescue dog shelters and how bad puppymills are.
I think this a tragedy for the poor pups. I have a rescued pup from someone like him, with part of his jaw missing from tooth decay, ulsers on his eyes from constant unrine in his eyes. Go Puppymillers, we are so proud of what you do. What did they ever do to you?
I am a faithful reader of People Magazine, I look forward to Friday when I can buy the new weeks issue. This past week I was disgusted to see this young man recognized as a role model when he is being incredibly irresponsible and knows nothing of proper puppy raising/ breeding
Please give equal space to puppymills, and the torture and suffering of the animals in them. Please give equal space to the real "Titans" who devote themselves to fighting puppy mills.
Every puppy deserves care that it doesn't get in a puppy mill -- and every purchaser of a puppy deserves to know about the treatment their puppy received before they purchased it. People need this education -- please provide it!
I volunteer countless hours to rehome dogs that have been mentally and physically damaged by irresponsible owners. It is unconscionable that People Magazine would glorify a business that indiscriminately buys dogs from puppy mills and sells them to unknown individuals. Would you sell children over the internet? I think not. Animals deserve the same respect.
There are so many abandoned, unwanted and abused dogs and cats living on our streets and in our shelters because of our society's throw-away attitude; it should be ILLEGAL to breed and SELL these animals. I certainly hope this teenager can manage to find a more noble business to pursue.
This is outrageous - for your magazine to promote something like this is irresponsible. At least give equal time to those of us who rescue all the animals that these misguided and selfish people foist on uninformed owners.
My heart goes out to these poor puppies bred strictly for profit. No one knows or even seems to cares where these innocent creatures end up. Some are abused, some are abandoned. Yes, some land in good homes, but at what cost to those who don't? Many of them are starving and many contract diseases because of such poor conditions.
I worked with veterinarians for 2 years and I saw first hand the cruel result of puppy mills. The people running them are inhumane criminal, not business people.
This is a travesty -- an abominable quality of life after being bred indiscriminately, with no attention to undesirable genetically-carried traits. As someone once said: "Dog may be man's best friend, but we certainly haven't returned the compliment".
Dogs in shelters are being slaughtered every day for lack of homes. There is no place in our society for puppy mills to produce even more excess animals.
The callousness demonstrated by this article is amazing. You should be ashamed!
For the sake of balance and education you should now feature an article about the HORROR of puppy mills and the unending work of rescue organizations throughout the nation.
If you are going to allow articles about puppy mills, then please do one on the horrors of mills. A good person to interview would be Robin Presnell of Small Paws Rescue in Tulsa, OK. You can go to the web site at www.smallpawsrescue.org
Goodbye to you-
people magizine.
Do a retraction or an article about how truly wrong this is. Then in my office I will allow your magizine back in, but not until.
Jay Teal
