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Tens of thousands of dogs are in Pennsylvania without rabies vaccinations administered by a licensed veterinarian. LEARN MORE
Learn more about Puppy Mills and how you can find a responsible breeder by visiting aspca.org
Our PA Cash Crop Billboard is now up on the Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Harrisburg and Lancaster Exits. The fifteen by sixty foot billboard is visible to motorists driving east toward Philadelphia on the right-hand side of the Turnpike.
We all know puppy mills are bad. Factory farms where thousands of breeding dogs are kept in cages slightly larger than their own bodies. Underfed dogs feeding an industry of corruption and greed. Instead of walking on grass, they stand a lifetime on stretched wire flooring in cramp rabbit hutches. Instead of collars or bandanas, they wear rusted livestock clips in their ears or chains with USDA tags embedded in their necks. Undeserving of a name after eight years of service, a breeding female is often led into a dark cornfield and killed once she can no longer produce her young for market. Puppies who fail to sell often share the same fate. Unable to compete with the newest litters of seven week olds, they are destroyed at five or six or seven months of age. These little "left-over" puppies who grow too fast and lose their ability to bring in the top prices.The factory farming of man's best friend is an ugly business. Each step of the process is harsh, inhumane and unspeakably cruel. The "extermination" of retired breeding dogs and unsold puppies is horrendous to anyone who loves dogs, and yet in Pennsylvania, it is perfectly legal. Dogs are "agricultural products" in our fair state and can be destroyed like any other livestock once they fail to turn a profit. Purchase a puppy bred in one of Pennsylvania's infamous puppy mills and you are supporting this inhumane practice. You are contributing to the cruelty. Remember, ninety-nine percent of the dogs sold in pet stores come from puppy mills. You need to understand what happens to the dogs left behind.
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Not all farmers in Pennsylvania breed dogs. Not all dog breeders grow food. But there are enough farmers breeding dogs and unhealthily disposing of large quantities of dead dogs and fecal matter to cause concern.