Pom Haven Rescue
Saving lives one dog at a time!
What is a puppy mill? What is a back yard breeder?
*Note: The below information has been derived from Pom Haven Rescue's own experiences over the past 25 years dealing with and working with shelters, puppy mills surrenders, breeders, transporters, and humane agents all over the country.
Puppy mills are filthy, disease ridden environments constructed for mass breeding dogs for sheer profit without care or concern for the dogs health or well being. Puppy mills can be in found in rural areas, suburban areas, in cities, on farms, in barns, sheds, warehouses, or in private back yards.
There is not much difference in puppy millers and back yard breeders with the exception that puppy milling is done on a larger scale in a larger facility. Most BYB work out of their homes.
Dogs from puppy mills and BYB are for the most part unhealthy and riddled with disease, birth defects, and parasites.
They get little to no veterinary care and suffer from genetic defects from inbreeding. The lack of veterinary care they receive, poor diet, and lack of fresh water can cause a whole host of other ill effects for these unfortunate dogs, i.e. teeth, skin, eye, ear and bone problems.
These dogs are forced to eat, sleep, and eliminate their entire lives in small, unsanitary, overcrowded pens, crates, or boxes.
These poor dogs are continually forced to breed and reproduce until they are to sick to or no longer can at which time they are usually killed by horrific methods or surrendered to high kill shelters.
Most times shelters deem these dogs unadoptable due to them being ill and severely undersocialized. These dogs are then either euthanized or handed over to rescue groups that are willing to help these dogs.
Most of these dogs have never seen the outdoors. Their paws have never touched grass. They have never been walked, played with, held, loved, or even petted. The only human contact most of these dogs have ever received is harsh handling when they are being forced to breed.
These dogs suffer from social, emotional, and physical abuse at the hands of cruel human beings that profit from breeding them over and over until they are too weak, too old or to sick to breed anymore.
These dogs exhibit behaviors such as fear, constant circling, excessive whining, crying, barking, fear biting, and consume their own and other dogs waste. They are often withdrawn, emactiated, and lack all social skills.
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What rescues like Pom Haven do to help!
We provide transportation, veterinary care, food, shelter, grooming. We provide a loving environment to socialize and emotionally and physically rehabilitate and train these dogs deemed unadoptable by shelters and breeders until we can find forever homes.
