Let's talk about those puppy mills again, shall we?

I had this comment left on my Whoopi post:

"i agree that pet stores are a bad business, but they're still animals, many of them are, just as you pointed out, poorly-bred and sickly, and they need love too."


I get it, I really do.  Obviously the animal rights activists out there aren't suggesting that puppy mill dogs don't deserve love.  No one is saying that the dogs should be left to suffer.  The point is, we're trying to stop dogs from ending up in that position in the first place.  


When a puppy is purchased from a pet store, you are voting with your dollar about what you feel is acceptable.  Even if it is out of pity, feeling that you have to give love to an animal that truly needs it, you are still lining the pockets of the people who profit from tugging on heart strings just like yours.  


There are thousands of dogs, purebred dogs, in shelters right now just waiting to be put to sleep.  The people who bred them don't give two fucks about them, and the general public doesn't even realize that they are there.  We have to stand up and say that enough is enough and let it be known that we simply do not support the exploitation, abuse and neglect of these dogs.  Every animal in the shelter system is there because a human let it down.  


We have to stop being wishy washy.  These dogs don't owe us, they don't deserve this and it is wrong, sick and fucking FUCKED.  Here is my opinion;  if you buy from a pet store, you are as responsible for the puppy mills and back yard breeders as the operators themselves.  It is YOUR money running the joint and keeping them going, and all of the love you provide to your poorly bred, sickly puppy won't change that. 

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
-Shakespeare