Approximately 3,500 pet stores in the United States sell 500,000 puppies a year. A product of Puppy Mills, the parents of these puppies are often forced to live their entire lives in cruel conditions including tight, overcrowded and dirty cages with very limited socialization and poor quality food. They receive little to no veterinary care and are continually over bred and inbred until their reproductive capacity wanes and they are killed. This cruelty and inbreeding often results in sick or disabled offspring. In addition to being sold at pet stores, these puppies are also sold directly to the unknowing consumer through the internet, newspaper ads and from the mill itself.
I pledge that I want to join the campaign to help end the animal cruelty of puppy mills today. I will support legislation that enacts tougher penalties against puppy mills. I will report cases of animal abuse to my local animal care and control facility. I will educate others about how they can help to put an end to the horror of puppy mills. I will care and try to make this a safer world for animals:
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