Is it bad to adopt a puppy from a puppy mill?

Question

A lady said she is trying to get all the puppies away from this puppy mill and give them a home and the money would help her get the rest out.

Answer 1

Puppy mills are a very bad thing!!!!!!!!!!!!  They should be outlawed. Do whatever you can to save the mommies and their offspring.  PLEASE!!!!!!

Answer 2

oh oh, your going to get some rough answers

Answer 3

From what I know about mills, is that they farm, puppies like people, farm soybeans...the puppies need to be removed, but not buy selling.   RESCUE The confiscated ones, at your local shelter.!!

Answer 4

YES!!  by paying them you are supporting them

Answer 5

Yes, Yes, Yes, a thousand times Yes!  The more people buy puppymill pups, the more money the puppymillers make but they don't spend it on the care and comfort of the dogs, that's for sure!  They just  breed those poor dogs until they die or can't have puppies anymore.  They feed the cheapest most horrible dog food available.  The mama dogs were once cute little puppies themselves but now are serving life sentences in small cages with no one who cares any more about them than how many puppies they can have.  Every puppymill puppy purchased just condemns more dogs to that same fate.  I don't know if I would trust or believe the woman you spoke to.  Many puppymills now hire individuals to sell puppies for them.  Any puppymill owner who sold all the dogs there would simply go buy some more and start over.

Answer 6

It's not adoption if you spend money to buy from a puppy mill.  And yes it's wrong to support a practice where dogs are kept in kennels and filthy conditions their entire lives so they can pump out litter after litter to be sold for hundreds and thousands of dollars.  If you buy them from the puppy mill, they will just breed more.

Answer 7

NO it is not bad, contrary to most who think so. If puppy were made more available by local dealers who are to cheap to breed them, you would not need to buy one in a mall. In my city of over a quarter million people, there is not one dog breeder. Either you buy one from a mall puppy mill, or you risk all by buying one on the internet and having it shipped which is ridiculous..and those breeders charge hundreds, sometimes thousands plus shipping. They claim to be good breeders on the internet but they can prove nothing from out of state, and they are out to roll you worse than an automobile salesman. So what is a person to do? If you love the puppy. Get it. Because dog breeders are out to take you even more than puppy mills.

Answer 8

Basically you are helping this dog at the expense of thousands of other dogs, and IMO, this is not considered a rescue if the puppymill gets a dime of that money if any of your money sees the puppymill you are helping to perpetuate the practice...  If the money solely goes to the rescuer for the care of the dogs then go ahead... The only ethical way of getting that dog out is to shut down the place or donate the money to an org who needs to pay lawyer fees to shut the place down or is able to get the dogs out in another way that finessed way that the rescuers might have thought of...  If you are interest in adopting a puppymill surviver contact a 501c rescue org that saves them and gives them the initial puppymill specific vet health check ups that these special guys need.

Maybe search out a group like this, I get regular emails like this from different yahoogroups dog rescue email lists

http://blog.nola.com/animals/2008/05/pup...

Answer 9

Yes ! You are giving them $ ... their only reason to keep breeding.

Answer 10

i wouldnt say its bad because you going to give it a good home,but people say buying from such places only encourages them to carry on.

Answer 11

Well, it is basically bad. Go adopt a poor puppy from the animal shelter/humane society. They have mixed breeds and purebreds [that usually just don't have papers]. Of course, it is your decision.

Answer 12

NEVER get a dog from a puppy mill! rescue one from a rescue group or animal control. And never give puppy mills money

Answer 13

yes you are supporting them and they will continue to do it.

this is a very hard situatiion.

when in dought call the cops, they can help