Arkansans Against Puppy Mills is an active, independent page designed to promote citizen support and volunteerism for pending legislation on large scale dog breeding facilities within the state of Arkansas. Generally defined, a puppy mill is an inhumane, commercial dog-breeding facility in which the health and well being of the dogs is disregarded in order to maintain a low overhead and maximize p
rofits. Puppy mill breeding dogs often suffer from severe neglect, living their entire lives in small wire cages, denied human companionship, toys, exercise, climate control, basic hygiene and medical care. Females are bred repeatedly -sometimes before it is safe to be bred - producing litter after litter until their bodies can produce no more. At this point, they are often destroyed (killed) and replaced by new breeding stock. At present, Arkansas has no regulations or oversight addressing large, commercial dog-breeding facilities. It is not illegal to operate a puppy mill in the state of Arkansas, and with the lack of regulation and oversight, this primarily cottage based industry in our state remains wide open to unethical manipulation and abuse of both the system and the dogs. There are hundreds of known puppy mills in Arkansas profiting off the mass production of puppies and potentially hundreds more that are not on the radar. As more states enact regulatory laws for commercial dog-breeding facilities, many mill operators pull up stakes in the more restrictive states, get mobile and set up shop in less restrictive states. Our goal is to bring regulation and oversight to the puppy mill industry in Arkansas during the current legislative session.
