GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS INSIDE, BE WARNED-it's not about the puppy!

Moderator here,
 
mudpuppy...I cannot say I disagree with considering the parent dogs...but I can say that I find no reason to put the graphic descriptions in your post, beyond making members here feel like crap, and possibly making other members physically ill. I am attaching a warning to your post.
 
I will probably shortly be locking this thread, too...because it seems simply an open door for yet another back and forth...in future, please put a warning on your posts if you are going to be posting graphic details of dog torture for shock effect...thanks.

Yes that may be true. I did buy my puppy on line checked him out he lives on alot of property and his dogs are not in kennel cages it is attached to his house he plays with them and they have heaters and air. He is there for them.I talk to him about every other day and we e-mail each other. So thank god I got lucky shes a doll.

THANK YOU!

And think about a similar situation that I would hope no one would have such a cavalier attitude about. A lot of us adopted our beloved dogs from shelters and pounds. So should all of us support irresponsible breeding, abuse, and laziness so that pounds and shelters can always be full and we can always adopt dogs there? Just because I love my dogs who I adopted from shelters does NOT mean that I am at all happy about where they came from, nor would I ever suggest that we simply sit back and do nothing about overpopulation so that shelters can always be full so I can always fulfill my need for dogs to adopt. There's no difference between that situation and a puppy mill / byb situation. Except that a purposeful breeding for big bucks is even MORE despicable than an oops litter resulting from people being too lazy or cheap to get their family dogs altered. The oops litter was a stupid mistake, the puppy mill is intentional cruelty in the name of greed.

If my mutt Conrad had never been born, never been bought by a family who was not in any way ready to deal with his needs, had never been dumped at a high kill pound when that family grew sick of him, believe me that would be a wonderful world. The string of stupidity and irresponsibility that led to him coming to live with me should have never even been begun. He should not have been born. Since he was, and since it came to me to care for him, of course I will happily do so, but that does not mean that my love for him extends to a love of where he came from. If I ever meet the people who bred him, I definately have some choice words for them, none of them printable in an open forum like this. I will never, ever thank them for doing what they did.

I agree with mudpuppy with an overflowing 100%. 
 
Pet shops need to be banned, and people do need to know why.  It needs to be worked upon with legislative initiative and prowess.

[linkhttp://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=256903]http://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=256903[/link] "Pet Store Truths"
 
This sticky is full of valuable links...you might all go thru and see if there are any more you'd like added, them PM me and I will add them. I will amend the title to make it more obvious what is included.

I was not able to read mudpuppy's entire post.  Even though I agree with the intent, I don't think it's necessary to get graphic on this forum when there are enough links to show the horrible conditions, complete with photographic evidence. 

All I can say is that I only hope that one would educate one's self before such a purchase.