BAN PUPPY MILLS/FARMS IN AUSTRALIA FOREVER

PLEASE WATCH MY VIDEO PROMOTING MY PETITION AND SEND IT TO FRIENDS, FAMILY, ANYONE.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21HBFIszNQ

A puppy mill or puppy farm is a large dog breeding facility created to mass produce puppies for profit.

Likened to battery hens, the breeding dogs are kept in cages or pens for their entire life with the sole purpose of producing puppies for the pet shop, internet and overseas markets.

Pet shops require a constant supply of cute, young puppies and individual shops can take more than 20 a week. Multiply that by the number of pet shops found in shopping centres throughout Australia and you have the perfect distribution network for an industry producing hundreds of puppies with little concern paid to quality, health or temperament.

Puppy mills are legal in Australia, as long as the proprietors meet the minimum standard of care. The law is different in each state and territory, but usually requires that the dog can stand up, turn around and lie down and that the pen has a partial roof. The dogs can remain in these cages their entire life - there is no requirement for socialisation, grooming or bathing, human contact, exercise and certainly no requirement for love.

In Australia these farms have anything from 20 to 1000 breeding females who are kept constantly pregnant or lactating in order to keep up with demand. The health, behaviour and temperament problems found in puppies from puppy mills are well documented and for each cute, fluffy litter of puppies seen in a pet shop window their mother is likely to be suffering the fate of a puppy mill dog.

Many puppy mills/farms follow all council regulations and are regularly inspected by the RSPCA, but this does not make it okay for a dog to spend its life in a cage. The dog lacks social interaction and a good temperament from its parents.

Learning begins from the moment a pup is born. Dog behaviourists have long known from birth to seven weeks is the time when the greatest changes, physically and behaviourally take place and it's during this stage of tremendous development that a dog's personality is shaped.

Farms keep upwards of 300 dogs, so during this very important time in the puppy's development, they languish in kennels without experiencing the things they will encounter when they join the world. They miss out on individual handling and interaction with humans. They have no contact with a bustling household, kids and other pets. They don't even go outside of the kennel environment to walk on grass or learn to toilet away from their sleeping area.

Aside from environmental factors, the other major ingredient to a good tempered dog is hereditary; or the stable temperament of its parents. These pups are bred from dogs who've never dealt with any of the challenges of modern life, so are an unknown factor - how can we know these mums are good house pets when they've never been one?

I cannot believe that puppy mills and farms are legal in Australia.
We dont do this to humans, so why do it to an animal.
Please put an end to this cruelty and sign my petition.

Created by Alani Marsh