Puppy Mills

This week People magazine has an article about Bill Smith who rescues dogs from puppy mills. It seems that many of the puppy mills are operated by the Amish in Pennsylvania as selling puppies is big business. Mr. Smith founded an organization called Main Line Animal Rescue (www.mlar.org) which over the years has rescued approximately 8,000 dogs, 25% of those from the Amish puppy mills.
The dogs in puppy mills are often kept in cages, thus their strength and health suffers. Once a dog is no longer productive, it is shot.
This puppy mill industry is one more reason I support going to the local shelter. If people would stop buying puppies from mills, people who run them would be out of business.