what are the reasons as to why people shouldnt buy dogs from pet stores?

Question

i wanted to tell my mom y. i told her that there were some reasons but i for got them.

im not going to by them from a pet store. i never plan to. i will buy them from a shelter when i get one.

Answer 1

Pet store puppies....They come from puppy mills, usually are taken away from their parents at around 4-5 weeks (no puppy should EVER leave before 8 weeks or they suffer behavior problems). The pet stores usually have their own vets that make false paperwork stating that the dog is healthy even when they are suffering from kennel cough, parvo, or distemper. If they give you a health guarantee, you have to bring the dog back to their vet and if you decide that you want to return the dog they kill them without medical help. People routinely drop puppies in pet shops breaking legs and bones. The puppy is left in the back and often either euthanized or left to heal on it's own. Where the puppies come from is even more horrible than the pet shop. The puppy mills have a barn or shot (usualy in Missouri or other eastern states) and the dogs are in tiny cages. They never have human contact, and their entire life is spent making babies. When they are too old or worn out, they are usualy killed but sometimes people can rescue them. Then these poor dogs have to be tought how to walk on the leash and other simple things like housebreaking. Watch Animal Cops and very often you can see a puppy mill shut down. Below is a poem that tells the story in a very real and saddening way from the puppies point of view. Please take the time to read it.


Pet Store Puppy

I'm a little puppy, so cuddly, sweet and small
I live inside a cage, you see at Pet Store in the mall.
I'm not an only puppy, my sisters are all here.
My brothers, too, except for Ralph who died coz he was scared.
It's lonely here at nighttime when all the lights go dark,
We tremble in our cages and we whimper and we bark.
But no one comes to hold us or pet our fears away
We sit all night in terror til the store opens next day.
We don't remember mama left so far behind
She did the best she could for us til Man said "It is time."
He crammed us all in cages too small for us you see
We rode for hours; we could not help but lay in poop and pee
And now we sit in Pet Store where kids come taunt and squeeze
They do not hear our whimpers or understand our pleas
We're miserable and it's scary here we all would rather die
But since we don't we do our best to run away and hide
I know you think my story too sad to leave me be,
You want to take me home with you, a happy little puppy.
But please, though it is fearful to live here against our will
If you take me that leaves a spot another pup will fill.
You can stop our suffering but not by taking us home
You must be strong and leave us here, unsold and all alone
For if you do not take me, then another pup won't come
And maybe he will not be shipped so far away from home
Tho some of us may not survive the cycle 'ere it falls
If we don't sell they will not need more puppies in these halls
And if they need no puppies then the Man will not bring more
Eventually it can all stop!
You CAN close the door.
So when you see a puppy face so sad and sweet and small
In a cage at Pet Store at your neighborhood shopping mall
The best thing you can do for him is leave him sitting there
That is the best way you can tell all dogs
how much you care.

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Answer 2

1. Pet stores get their dogs from non-reputable people...anyone can bring in a litter of kittens, or puppies, cats or dogs and they will take them to sell them.

2. They are usually not well cared for, not socialized.

3. "Puppy mills" furnish pet stores with lots of pets. A puppy mill keeps it's breeding dogs in deplorable conditions, and rips the puppies from them whenever they want to and only care about quantity and money. Many of these dogs have health and behavior issues later. The breeding dogs are kept in their own feces, cages that are two small, do not get exercised, and many times do not even get adequate food and water. They do not get any human contact until they are to be bred or have their puppies taken from them. They don't get groomed, and many times their nails are growing into their foot pads and they have eye/ear/skin infections...

4. Buying from petstores encourages irresponsible breeding. And more and more dogs wind up being euthanized, some not humanely. Some are gassed, shot, drowned, starved, any number of horrors await them.

5. Some pet stores tell people that the puppies/dogs are from "champion blood lines" and are papered. If you do your research, there may have been a champion somewhere in the family, but then the dog that the pups were bred from wound up in the hands of a puppy mill. "Papers" mean nothing if the health, temperment, and well being of the puppies is not an important factor.

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Answer 3

Most puppies sold from pet stores are from puppy mills. Their parents are usually not cared for properly in order for the breeder to make as much profit as possible. They rarely come from sound stock and could end up costing you a lot of money in vet bills. Even worse is after the pup doesn't turn out to be the dog you hoped for they end up in shelters. Always buy from a reputable breeder that wants to stay in touch and demonstrates a true love for the breed you want(not just the popular breed of the week)The more research you do the happier you and your family will be in the long run. The dog will be happier too.

Answer 4

I'm with almost every answer. Most "pet store" dogs come from puppy mills and have a variety of issues. Mental and physical problems. You may be one of the few lucky ones and get a healthy dog, but I would go to a shelter or rescue agency.
Puppy mills are the absolute worst thing to imagine. I have 2 rescued dogs from puppy mills. With great care, a lot of love and affection, tons of patience, they are recovering and learning what life should be.

Answer 5

Basically because you never know what you're going to get. If a person is looking for a purebred dog, they should find a reputable and responsible breeder. They know how to breed out bad personality traits as well as health problems. If a person is looking for a lovable mutt then the animal shelter is the best place to go. An older shelter dog can be the best and most loyal friend you could ever have.

Answer 6

Pet stores are notorious about selling dogs that are not registrable (from puppy mills etc) and most of them are not well cared for i.e. proper shots, worming etc. Never buy from pet stores. Go to a shelter, a rescue group but not a pet store.

Answer 7

The selling of animals in pet stores is deplorable. It encourages people to breed dogs in large numbers, frequently in very unsanitary and unhealthy conditions. You can watch Animal Cops on the Animal Planet channel. In almost all locations for this show dogs are being rescued from these horrible conditions.
Just have your mom watch a few shows on that channel.

Most animal control and humane societies have dogs and puppies for adoption. Their health has been checked by a vet and they have been given shots, spayed or neutered, wormed, whatever so that you can be sure of getting a healthy pet.

Those agencies adopt animals to the public at much lower cost than what it costs to treat pets on the "open" vet market. Remember too that these agencies perfom many humane and necessary functions in your community by way of rescuing animals in distress, humanely putting down those that cannot be saved, etc. So because they do these things for your community and your taxes have covered some of that cost it is better to patronize them when looking for a pet.

Large corporations such as Pet Smart and Petco have adopted a commendable policy of using their cages for the adoption of animals from rescue organisations in your community. So they too are helping find homes for abandoned animals without taking a profit from their "sale" as the pet stores do.

Answer 8

I agree with what everyone else says but the biggest issues are that they come with a lot of health problems and if they try to tell you that the animals come from a respectable breeder they are wrong because no respectable breeder will sell their animals to a pet store. Also that there are son many good pets being euthanized in the pound, SPCA and Humane Societies that there is no need to get one from a pet store, both of my dogs were adopted from the pound and are the greatest dogs ever because they are greatful to have someone who loves them.

Answer 9

The more people buy from pet store the more puppy mills make $$$ and they stay in buisness. I don't believe in puppy mills. The mothers are bred over and over again until they are worn out from so much labor and then the mother's get sent to the pound usually. That's what I've heard.
If it's true it's cruel and inhumane!
Shelters are the best option.

Answer 10

The breeding of these dogs is cruel and inhumane. Most of these dogs have more genetic and behavioral problems than shelter pets.

My last breeder dog I fostered hid in her crate most of the time because that was all she knew. She was mated and thrown in a cage to have her babies in 63-65 days. Many are never touched by human hands till they are picked up to be carted off to pet stores. Maybe one in the litter thrown in another cage to breed with its dad for the next money making litter.

Your best bet is to go to the shelter or rescue adoption. Its unfortunate that their are so many mutts but at least they are not inbred to carry on the poor genes. You should never pay for a pet that has not been altered or has no blue ribbons from reputable shows to prove its worth breeeding.