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KIDS CORNER: Written by kids

When the puppies fall sick, puppy mills get rid of them. Usually when
the workers get rid of a puppy, they have the following diseases
according to the ASPCA:

• Epilepsy
• Heart disease
• Kidney disease
• Deafness
• Eye problems (cataracts, glaucoma, progressive)

And when they come to the pet store some diseases are:
• Kennel cough
• Pneumonia
• Mange
• Fleas
• Ticks

These specific diseases are harmful to a puppies life and within 2 weeks or even a couple day’s, a puppy
perishes from disease.

How can we avoid the situation of adopting from puppy mills?
1.Pet stores that are in business with a puppy mill, get you to buy the puppy saying,
"licensed USDA breeders" or "local breeders." But that actually means puppy mills.
So always keep in mind that puppies or dogs who are sold in pet stores are from
puppy mills. That way you can avoid putting money in a worker’s pocket.
2. Puppy Mills put ads online talking about puppies that are on sale. If you are
thinking about adopting keep in mind that whatever you see on the internet is not
always true. Puppy mills, as I said before, concentrate on the sales and earned
money. They don’t care about the puppies so whatever they put on their ads is not
true in logical terms. To the right is an example of a puppy mill ad.

To conclude this article, Be grateful you’re alive and get treated kind. But
remember that thousands of puppies get left behind.

To learn more about puppy mills go to: A Closer Look at Puppy Mills | Dog Breeding | ASPCA or Puppy
Hell: The Horrors of Puppy Mills | Modern Dog Magazine

Glossary
Words you’ve probably never seen before are the following:
• Combat Cruelty- Taking action in being cruel
• Atmosphere- Your surroundings
• Breed or Breeding- To re-produce
• Significantly- Being worthy of attention
• Bearing- One's way of moving or tolerating something
• Epilepsy- Abnormal brain activity
• Cataract- Blurry vision
• Glaucoma- Increase of pressure on the eyeball which leads loss of sight
• Progressive- liver problems
• Pneumonia- Bacterial or viral infection leading to lung disease
• Mange- Itching and hair loss of a mammal