Finding Labrador Puppies
It’s a nice day; you and your kids are walking around window shopping. Suddenly your kid squeals out in delight. There’s an absolutely adorable Labrador in a pet store’s window. Even you are won over by those puppy dog brown eyes, so you think why not buy it? After all you’ve always wanted a Labrador for a pet dog.
Labradors are considered the world’s most popular dogs. Even as we speak, Labrador breeders are competing and tirelessly trying to produce the best Lab ever. Unfortunately this article is not all about the fine points of the Labrador breed or the art of being a Labrador breeder. This article is about the sad fact that today, pet stores are the life and blood of puppy mills.
Puppy mills and puppy mill owners are atrocious people who do not care for the well being of Labrador puppies. They are in the business of raising dogs for money and because Labradors are in demand it is one of the commonly victimized breed.
Puppy mills are common knowledge; we accept the fact that some people need a source of living. Labrador puppies are very popular in the market and it is ok to breed them. But it is the essence of the Labrador breeders’ procedure that is coming into question. People seem to forget that their source of living should be treated nicely.
Female dogs are made to breed at a very young age, and they do so until they are incapable of producing a decent number of litters. What’s more, they are kept in cramped cages, devoid of any human or animal contact. Their paws are swollen because of the hardwire flooring. Most of the dogs are afflicted with flea infestations, genetic disorders and other illnesses. So you ask, what’s the connection to pet stores, and that poor Labrador in the puppy mill? Well, you see ninety percent of Labrador puppies sold at pet stores come from commercial Labrador breeders or puppy mills.
Unlike Labrador breeders, puppy mills do not care about the conditions they raise and breed dogs in. What they want is low costs so they get higher profits. Mother dogs and studs are kept in cages with hard wires for flooring, and no protection from the elements at all. In breeding is a common occurrence, which results in a degraded, abnormal or defective puppy.
There is a way of checking if a puppy came from a commercial Labrador breeder that’s okay, unfortunately the paper work will get up to two weeks. The tendency is that someone else would have probably bought the puppy you wanted by that time.
Although there are pet shops that do get their puppies from responsible commercial dog breeders, Labrador breeders, and private owners, the likely hood is that there are only a few of them that do. The lure of higher profits is sometimes hard to resist for some people. So be the responsible one and don’t patronize the pet stores who are merciless to animals.
