YES THIS IS THE SADDEST TRUTH – IT MUST BE STOPPED, BUT ONLY IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO HELP.
SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE.

Anybody that can help with any info, even if you had bad experience with a pet shop…….

Please help us to STOP the SUFFERING OF animals in Puppy and Kitten Mills.

If you have any information on a Puppy or Kitten Mills OR INDESCRIMINATE BREEDERS please contact us on 013  932 3941 or 013  932 3942

“WET NOSE ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE will INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND IF NEED BE CONFISCATE AND PROSECUTE THE CASE.
This is an urgent plea to everyone, who loves animals, and helps us to protect them.

Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre would like to warn everyone not to put cruelty on your shopping lists this year. The holidays are a busy season for puppy sales and people need to know that when they purchase puppies over the Internet, through newspaper ads, or at pet stores, they are often unknowingly supporting a puppy mill.

Puppy mills are inhumane breeding facilities that produce puppies in large numbers. They are designed to maximize profits and commonly disregard the physical, social, and emotional health of the dogs. The breeding dogs at puppy mills either live their entire lives in cages or in poor conditions

Please support our Stop Puppy Mills Project.

If you would like to get involved in our project please feel free to contact us:

WET NOSE ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE

Email:
wetnose@absamail.co.za

Tel:
013 932 3941 / 2

Emergency:
082 742 2522 /082 446 1662

People who love animals need to help stop them from being mistreated by making sure they aren’t supporting a puppy or kitten mill!

Please help us spread the word.

In order to maximise profits, female dogs are bred at every opportunity with little to no recovery time between litters. When, after a few years, they are physically depleted to the point that they no longer can reproduce, breeding females are often killed. The mom and dad of the puppy in the pet store window are unlikely to make it out of the mill alive or in a healthy condition -and neither will the many puppies born with overt physical problems that make them unsalable to pet stores.

Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, without adequate veterinary care, food, water and socialisation. Puppy mill dogs do not get to experience treats, toys, exercise or basic grooming. To minimize waste cleanup, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs-and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns. Breeder dogs at mills might spend their entire lives outdoors, exposed to the elements-or crammed inside filthy structures where they never get the chance to feel the sun or a gust of fresh air on their faces.

Illness, disease, fearful behavior and lack of socialisation with humans and other animals are common characteristics of dogs from puppy mills. Because puppy mill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove sick dogs from their breeding pools, puppies from puppy mills are prone to congenital and hereditary conditions. These can include:

• Epilepsy
• Heart disease
• Kidney disease
• Musculoskeletal disorders (hip dysplasia, luxating patellas, etc.)
• Endocrine disorders (diabetes, hyperthyroidism)
• Blood disorders (anemia, Von Willebrand disease)
• Deafness
• Eye problems (cataracts, glaucoma, progressive retinal atrophy, etc.)
• Respiratory disorders

On top of that, puppies often arrive in pet stores-and their new homes-with diseases or infirmities. These can include:

• Giardia
• Parvovirus
• Distemper
• Upper respiratory infections
• Kennel cough
• Pneumonia
• Mange
• Fleas
• Ticks
• Intestinal parasites
• Heartworm
• Chronic diarrhea

A puppy mill is a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. Unlike responsible breeders, who place the utmost importance on producing the healthiest puppies possible, breeding at puppy and kitten mills is performed without consideration of genetic quality. This results in generations of dogs with unchecked hereditary defects.

Puppy mill puppies are typically sold to pet shops and marketed as young as six weeks of age. All records of puppy mill dogs are often falsified.