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/