To me a puppy mill is a 'breeder' that abuses or leaves their stock in filth. Most Commercial breeders do not fall into this catagory and take good care of their breeding stock.
If there were no commercial or backyard breeders, where ever would the pet buying public get their purebred puppies? Show breeders cannot possibly supply the demand for PB puppies. If laws make breeding extremely hard, they will get their puppies somewhere. One has only to look at the terrible anti-breeder laws in California to see. Make breeding hard and then wonder why they are dealing with sickly Mexican puppies being smuggled in.
Better a backyard or commercial breeder than a very questionable source in a country where abuse laws are not enforced, if they exist at all.
And no, not everyone wants a crossbreed from a shelter, and most are crosses. Shelter dogs are mostly from owner retention problems, and people letting their dogs roam and breed indiscriminately, not purebred breeders.
2006-06-20
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