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ASPCA Weighs In On Lax USDA Inspections/Enforcement of AWA
From the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals press release and some info from the group’s site:
The ASPCA® was horrified and saddened to read the Office of the Inspector General’s audit detailing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s lax and ineffective enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) against licensed large-scale dog breeders and brokers known as “puppy mills.”
The report found that despite regular inspections, breeders are allowed to operate facilities where dogs live in inhumane conditions—kennels overflowing with pools of urine and feces, food laden with dead cockroaches, dogs infested with ticks, and unattended injuries such as a mutilated leg, among other atrocities—without penalty. Unfortunately, we were not surprised.
The ASPCA has been painfully aware of the cruel conditions to which dogs are regularly subjected at the hands of puppy mill operators who put profit above providing the most fundamental standards of care.
We commend the Office of the Inspector General for its important audit and urge consumers to avoid purchasing dogs from pet stores—retail or online—and instead adopt from their local shelter or a breed rescue group, or buy from a responsible breeder.
For more information about puppy mills, please visit: http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/puppy-mills/
Here you’ll find all sorts of resources and information on puppy mill scams and cons, 10 Ways You Can Help Fight Puppy Mills, laws protecting dogs and consumers, and so much more.
In case you don’t know, a puppy mill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. Unlike responsible breeders, who place the utmost importance on producing the healthiest puppies possible, breeding at puppy mills is performed without consideration of genetic quality. This results in generations of dogs with unchecked hereditary defects.
Puppy mill puppies are typically sold to pet shops—usually through a broker, or middleman—and marketed as young as eight weeks of age. The lineage records of puppy mill dogs are often falsified.
For a list of common problems with puppy mill dogs, click here.
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Boo puppy mills. I don’t know how people can treat dogs this way.