Puppy Mill Survivors

05/05/2024

STOP PUPPY MILLS

Michigan shelters received nearly 60 dogs rescued from an alleged North Carolina puppy mill Thursday.

05/05/2024

❓🐾WHAT IS A PUPPY MILL❓🐾

A puppy mill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding facility where dogs live in cramped, filthy cages 24/7 and are bred repeatedly, producing puppies to be sold in pet stores across the country - and online throughout the world. A single facility may house as few as
100 breeding dogs, or as many as 800 or more. It is estimated there are approximately 10,000 puppy mills
in the USA, the majority being located in the Midwest. About one-third of these mills are approved and licensed by the USDA, as dogs are legally classified as "livestock".

04/24/2024

I created this page to bring awareness to the horrors of puppy mills and the struggles of the ones that actually live to tell about it. Lucy is one of the lucky ones. She got out and now she lives with me and her three fur brothers and one fur sister. But she has her struggles still. She is scared of everything because everything is a new experience. Her rescue anniversary is coming up on July 22nd. Let’s fill this page with stories of your puppy mill survivor if you are lucky enough to have one in your life. Let’s post their stories and their before and after photos in separate posts on this page.

11/18/2023

11/18/2023

This is what a puppy mill breeder dog looks like when rescued. If people would research they would be shocked to see where their puppy came from.

11/18/2023

The story of 286. A puppy mill dog.

It's dark and cold in the barn.

My name is 'Dog' and I am five years old. I was born in the dark.

Around my neck is a too tight collar, with the number 286. I live in pen 5, right next to my mother. Across from us is my aunt. Behind me I can hear my sister barking. We're all related here.

I'm pregnant again, this is my 7th litter. I don't know where all my puppies went. Sometimes I think I hear them in the barn, oh how I hope they were able to escape this hell.

I've never left the barn. Sunlight, grass under my paws, those are just stories I heard from my mother. Did she experience such glorious things? Did she have another life before this place?

My stomach is growling. I'm so hungry. Hopefully the man feeds us tonight.

Overnight my puppies were born. Born into darkness, and cold. Five little puppies, laying on the cold, damp floor. I try to keep them warm, but my body is emaciated. I'm cold too.

One little puppy isn't moving anymore. I nuzzle her with my nose, but her body is limp. She didn't survive. This has happened before, and I mourn for my babies. All of them. My other babies want milk, they try to suckle from my belly but everything is dry. I'm just as hungry as they are, and have nothing left to give.

The man is back. He looks into my kennel. Just once I wish he would show us some kindness. He takes my little girl and throws her limp body into a bucket. Careless, and cruel. He's always been so cruel. I crawl back to my other babies, and lay over them, to protect them from the man. He finally puts some food in my bowl. The door closes and it's dark once more.

Five weeks later, the door opens. I knew this day was coming. The other moms have been crying for their babies this week. I knew our turn was coming. The man puts his hand into my kennel, and one by one he takes my babies away. They are too young to be taken away.

I nip the man's hand when he sticks it too close to my face, trying to grab my last baby. He smacks me, hard. Harder than the last time. But not as hard as the first time I guess, the first time he took my puppies I could hardly stand for days.

I watch through the hole in my kennel as he takes away my babies, again. This will happen again, and again, until I am too old to make puppies for him. What will happen to me then? Will he throw me into a bucket too?

The days go by, and I mourn for my babies. It's so cold in the barn, but I feel so hot. I haven't eaten in awhile, not that he feeds us much anyway. My bowl is still full from the last meal he gave us, I'm too sick to touch it. Even drinking water hurts.

My body shakes from the fever. All I can think about are my puppies. Are they comfortable? Are they happy, and healthy, and warm? Does someone love them, in the way that I was never loved? I drift off to sleep, dreaming of my babies, and of the life I hope they have. At least my last thought is a happy one.

A few hours later the man comes into the barn. He looks into my kennel. "Hey, get the wheelbarrow. There's a dead one in here."

**This story was taken from a German rescue group. The German to English translation wasn't precise, so I took the English translation and expanded upon it. While the exact story of number 286 is unknown, we do know that stories like hers take place every single day, in puppy mills all over the world. It's not always barns or warehouses full of hundreds of dogs, sometimes the people in your very own neighborhoods run these types of operations out of their homes, and you would never even know it.

When you support a puppy mill, you are supporting cruelty. Know where that precious puppy is coming from. If you can't see the mother, or the conditions in which she lives,. chances are you're buying a puppy mill dog.

08/10/2023

💔💔🐾PLEASE SHARE🐾💔💔

Meet Lucy. Lucy and 46 of her “cell mates” were rescued from a puppy mill on 7/22/23. Lucy got her name that day. She never had a name before. Only a number. Lucy is approximately 5-7 years old. We don’t know her actual birth day or even birth year because no records were kept on her. Lucy has been impregnated approximately 9-13 times and whelped approximately 36-52 puppies. Her belly is so stretched out it hangs down. She’s overdone her puppy making so she needs to be spayed. Lucy seems to be a Bichon Frisé, which means her puppies most likely sold for an average of $2,000. She made her masters/captures/wardens approximately $72,000-$104,000. She made them all that money, but they couldn’t give her a name or remember her birthday or bathe her or take her to the vet to get her teeth cleaned. Her teeth are terrible. Lots of infection in her mouth which makes it hard for her to eat. Can you please donate to Lucy’s dental and spay surgery and/or donate to Pawfect Match rescue? Lucy is just one of the puppy mill survivors from that day and the vet bills for these sweet babies are very expensive.

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