When buying a new puppy it is important to think carefully about where you buy it from. If you buy a puppy from the wrong source you might end up with heart breaking dog health care problems on your hands. This is because of the danger of unwittingly buying a puppy who was born in a puppy farm.
Dog health care is a long way down the list of priorities for puppy farms and their proprietors. On the contrary the puppies that come from them are rarely healthy. Those puppies who have been farmed frequently fall victim to physical and psychological illness. They also frequently demonstrate problem behaviour.
Such problems are caused by the situation in which these puppies are kept. Preoccupation with profit means that conditions are almost certainly poor. They have little space to move around and almost no human contact.
Health wise the dogs suffer too. They are fed poor quality foods in small quantities and mother dogs are malnourished. Females are forced to breed as often as they physically can from the age of four months onwards, only being allowed to stop when they die or become too ill. Such frequent breeding leaves mothers and puppies unhealthy. Puppies are removed from their mother’s care too early so that she may be forced to have another set. And this coupled with lack of human interaction causes behavioural problems and dog health care problems.
Puppies in pet shops are usually the product of puppy farms, so it’s not advisable to buy them. It is also difficult to be sure where puppies in internet or newspaper adverts have come from. This is why anybody considering buying a puppy from an advert should insist on seeing the puppies with their mother and even the father if possible. Any seller who makes excuses when asked this is not to be trusted. Even if a farmed puppy seems like a cheaper idea, the saving is lost when extra vet bills and heart ache for the owner are considered. No reputable breeder would touch farmed puppies, so asking for recommendations from other dog owners is a good idea.
