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http://www.lacrossetribune.com/artic...ews/00lead.txt
These people want to farm puppies? And produce 200 puppies a year? And to top it all off, they want to raise rotties, not exactly a lapdog. Rotties need lots of attention and training, how are they going to keep track of temperament and aggression problems if that crops up in one of their puppies?
I just don't see how they can run a large scale breeding operation like that and produce quality puppies at the same time.


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Personally, I think any time an animal raised purely for profit (other than meat/fur animals...I am talking about mass producing to sell as pets) it is a mill. There are a few rabbit breeders that I cannot stand for that reason. One only raises breeds and varieties that sell well and bring in a good price. As soon as they are no longer profitable, they sell out of the breed/variety. It makes me so mad! I generally make a small profit on my rabbits, but I raise them first for myself, and only ones that I do not need for showing and breeding are sold. It took me many, many years before I started making a profit because it took that long to get a great reputation (Bad reputations form right away, but good ones take a long time to build) and to get my rabbits to a quality where breeders all over the US were interested in them. Breeding to a standard takes time, knowledge, etc. It takes a while to get all of that.
Even then, some years I loose a lot of money due to unforseen things like a large vet bill.


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Last year for my little brother's birthday we purchased a Siberian husky female from the pet shop. We understood that there was a high chance that Nikita(the husky) was a puppy mill pup because she was from "a breeder in Missouri." I'm not trying to insult true dog breeders from that state, just pointing out how lax laws in that state helped create She-Devil.
At first we attributed her canine ADHD to being a husky pup. A round ball of fur with way too much energy to spend. But as she grew up, we became worried. Any attempts to teach her basic commands failed, her aggression grew, and there was no way in *ell you could give her a bath without being bitten and clawed up. We spent money on training collars, books, metal leashes, argh. We never sent her to puppy training classes because my mother used to train security dogs with her mother and uncle before, so we knew the procedures and such.
I've never seen a dog despise a bath like she did. Nikita literally went wild when we set her in the bath tub. It wasn't just anger in her eyes I saw, but this weird crazed look that was really frightening. At first it took only one person to bathe her, but as she grew up, it took more and more. Finally, about a month before we got rid of her, it resorted to tying her up ouside, putting the hose on 'warm' and washing her off that way. Loud howls and screeches.
We finally gave her to a friend of my aunt's who recently lost his husky to old age and was looking into getting another one. Nikita just had attacked my little brother and was considered a danger to our family and something that had to go.
I haven't heard from my aunt's friend in a long time and have no idea how Nikita is doing. But I am never buying a puppy from a petstore again. Honestly. Ick.
~Karene
*paw*
(Sorry for the long post, but I'm really hyper tonight. )