I recently got a puppy from the animal shelter. Like many animals there, she was a stray.
What kind of puppy was it and it is always a good thing to get a pet from the animal shelter.
She's a boxer mix. Fortunately, I got her from a no-kill shelter. However, many shelters will euthanize sick animals or animals that are not quickly adopted.
I dislike that. that is really sad to know there is a better chance at just releasing them back out to the wild if you are going to euthanize them.
I agree. Germany, Greece, Italy, and the Czech Republic do not permit the killing of healthy dogs.
They should roll out that same law and make it for the United States will you go back to adopt another puppy from the shelter?
Definitely. The other option is a puppy mill, or commercial dog breeding facility. I would never buy from them.
Why not the puppy mill do they do bad things to the animals as well?
Puppy mill
A puppy mill, also known as a puppy farm, is a type of commercial dog breeding facility. They are all around the world and have similar characteristics. Although no standardized legal definition for "puppy mill" exists, a definition was established in "Avenson v. Zegart" in 1984 as "a dog breeding operation in which the health of the dogs is disregarded in order to maintain a low overhead and maximize profits". The ASPCA uses a similar definition: "a large-scale commercial dog breeding
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