A trip to your local puppy store can result in an hour of joy with a few four legged furry friends or the discovery of a life long companion. Just like any friend you acquire in your lifetime, you want them to live a happy life with little complications. When making a new friend you have the power to change their life for the better but poor treatment of animals can create problems that a loving family will not be able to solve. Before the animals are up for sale at the puppy stores or online they are living in an environment which focuses mainly on the profit to be made and not the welfare of the animals. These environments are nothing like the pictures advertised on the brochures for puppy farms. In reality the animals are fed the bare minimum, crammed into small cages, shown no love and given to open space to get much needed exercise. Buyers are convinced that the high price of puppies online or from puppy stores means a high quality of life before being sold. The conditions are never seen by buyers from pet stores. Pet stores swear their puppies come from local puppy farms, but this is rarely true.

This is where they are coming from (puppy mills)