Despite the commitment of major pet stores in the United States to let local shelters use their stores to promote animal adoption, a shadowy industry of puppy mills still persists.
Imprisoned female dogs are kept in cages, forcibly impregnated and made to give birth to litter after litter, and denied any veterinary care until they die from exhaustion. And most, if not all, of the operations find a way to work within U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations for “breeding livestock.”
