Puppy Mills awareness

In the article Puppy Mills’ Damage to Mental Health by Jennifer Scarlet the main idea about the article is about how dogs that come from puppy mills tend to have mental issues as they get older and aren’t in puppy mills anymore. A type of research that they was that they got two separate litters one going on sale or adoption at 30-40 days and the second litter got acquired at 60 days and they found that the dogs separated young were prone to unwanted behavior (Jennifer Scarlett 2012). These studies show that puppy mills do a bad job on when to sell their puppies since all they care about is their profit and start the next cycle of breeding. So when puppies are born they need their time to bond with their mother and in puppy mills everything is so rushed for the puppies that they tend to get scared. Affects that they will tend to get is puppies from mills are more fearful being touched, and more prone to “star(ing) intently at nothing visible” and “shadow chasing” (Jennifer Scarlett 2012). When puppies are in that age things to make them more social is to probably have another dog to make them social and try to get that fear away from them because if you wait until later on when their adults it will be harder for the fear to go away. It will probably not even go away since they have lived with it for so long so I’m against puppy mills and here’s the URL of the article to find out more about puppy mills.   http://blog.sfgate.com/jscarlett/2012/05/01/puppy-mills%E2%80%99-damage-to-mental-health/

The Social Stigma That I See

Do you know what stigma means? There are many different definitions the one I’m using is social stigma which means to disapprove of someone for either race, religion, or any type of physical illness and etc. the type of stigma that I see today is towards special needs children and when there are kids in special needs a lot of the time there are people who make fun of them just because of their disability. My relationship towards this is that I use to have my sister who did need special needs. She passed away because the conditions of her problems I never got to meet her because she passed away before I was born. She never dealt with anybody in school because she was too young to be in school but I know how some people react to kids or even adults who have special needs. 

Society now compared to when I was younger has probably matured up into seeing how special needs kids and adults are because now a lot of people stand up for them and treat them how they need to be treated by not giving them dirty looks or making fun of them behind their backs. The media now is also trying to help by doing commercials that special need people are like us and shouldn’t be mistreated by the way they look. What I see people doing to repair this problem is by giving workshops to young and even older people to not mistreat special needs people but to treat them the way we want to be treated. So awareness has grown for this and it’s a good thing it has because people are now reacting towards it but in a good way.     

My Pledges

Pledges are important to me because they help me focus strictly on the three goals that I have, help me become a better person by working on the areas that I need to grow in, and commit me to my goals. I David Flores pledge:

1.      To work my hardest during the internship phase at Year Up by figuring out a solution by myself without asking for help, and when someone gives me a task, I’m going to rely on myself without depending on others.

2.      To participate in class at least two to three times in class everyday by sharing classwork that I know, asking questions that I have, and sharing my answers to articles in group discussions.

3.      To help out my classmates whenever they need help by offering myself as support. This will help me better understand the classwork and remember it.