Page 8 - EASEL Animal Rescue League SPRING 2018

KIDS CORNER: Written by kids

Gayatri Mathur and Ananya Chandra of Girl Scout Troop 70054 chose to work with EASEL for their Girl Scout
Bronze award project.

For their project, they accomplished 3 things:
1. Pet Food Drive for EASEL at their school.
2. Volunteer hours with our friends at SAVE.
3. Researched and written articles regarding animal welfare.

We applaud the efforts of Gayatri and Ananya. They have done a fantastic job with their project. Thank you for
being wonderful animal advocates!

Why Puppy Mills Should not Exist By
Gayatri Mathur

“Woof! Woof!” Picture this! You are at a pet store and you see a
puppy barking in the window with eyes that say, “take me home.”
And you ask your mother, “where did that puppy in the window
come from?” Well you are about to witness the terrible cheating
companies they call, PUPPY MILLS.

What is a puppy mill?
What do you think puppy mills are? The definition of puppy mills to
the ASPCA, are “Puppy mills are large-scale commercial dog
breeding operations where profit is placed above the well-being of animals. Bred without consideration of
genetic quality.” In other words, profit and money is the main goal in these places with no care about the actual
puppies which involves breeding and making mothers bear children for sales. Also called Combat Cruelty.

Imagine it! A terrible alternate universe!
Imagine a dusty unhygienic place with cages stacked one on top of the other. Tiny cages with 2 dogs in each
and no space whatsoever! Poor puppies pacing back and forth bored and sick. Puppies die weeks after being
adopted in such terrible conditions. You might think you are helping a puppy get out of such a terrible place but
you're just putting money in a puppy mill worker’s pocket! That makes it easier for the puppy mill to breed more
puppies!

What is life like in the mill?
To create whole atmosphere of puppies, puppy mills slave mothers to have a litter of puppies for a sale. This is
what the ASPCA thinks. “The number of dogs in a puppy mill can vary significantly, ranging from 10 to 1,000
breeding dogs. Because not all puppy mills are licensed and inspected, it's impossible to know the true average.”
The mothers get slaved into bearing litters. But since there is no inspection (Puppy mills somehow get away from
it.) They don’t know the exact amount of puppies they get. The estimation is around 10-1000! That’s a lot of
slavery for a dog. After a female dog cannot breed anymore, she is of no use and therefore she is killed or in
some way gotten rid of. Usually puppies should depend on their mothers until they are no more than 1 year. In a
puppy mill, the puppies are taken away from their mother at 6 WEEKS. So a puppy would not learn the ways of a
grown dog let alone get out of a puppy mill alive. Because in puppy mills, life for the puppies is nothing but
pacing back and forth and staring into the dark and lonely emptiness.

What kind of diseases do the pups take on?
There are a ton of possible diseases. According to the ASPCA “The parents of the puppy in the pet store window
are unlikely to make it out of the mill alive—and neither will the many puppies born with overt physical problems.”
This shows that most puppies are born with physical health problems and don’t have the biggest chance to live.