'Designer dog demand fuels cruel trade': Puppy farms feature on ABC's 7.30 Report

A puppy mill or puppy farm is a large dog breeding facility created to mass produce puppies for profit.

Likened to battery hens, the breeding dogs are kept in cages or pens for their entire life with the sole purpose of producing puppies for the pet shop, internet and overseas markets.

Pet shops require a constant supply of cute, young puppies and individual shops can take more than 20 a week. Multiply that by the number of pet shops found in shopping centres throughout Australia and you have the perfect distribution network for an industry producing hundreds of puppies with little concern paid to quality, health or temperament.

For more information on puppy farms, visit

Where Do Puppies Come From?

or join the Facebook group Australia Says No to Puppy Farms

 

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