05/12/2026
Yes, those puppies in the retail stores come from deplorable puppy mills. PLEASE DO NOT BUY animals from either retail pet stores or over the Internet. The Internet is one of the methods puppy millers use to conceal from buyers that the puppies (shown in beautiful pictures) come from sad, neglectful conditions.
EITHER ADOPT or FIND A RESPONSIBLE BREEDER (BY SEEING FOR YOURSELF THE CONDITIONS THE MAMA AND PAPA LIVE IN).
Mother’s love brings down state’s biggest puppy mill. In rural Missouri. Drivers kept calling about an Australian Shepherd sprinting down the highway like she was chasing something. Animal control tried to stop her, but every time they got close, she broke away and kept running. After nearly 20 miles, they realized she wasn’t chasing traffic. She was chasing one white van.
When that van finally stopped, the dog ran straight to the back doors and started jumping, crying, and clawing like her life depended on it. Officers searched it and found cages stacked inside, packed with Australian Shepherd puppies. Some of them were hers. Investigators believe she had escaped the puppy mill and chased the van down herself, leading police back to the property where dozens more dogs were rescued and one of the state’s biggest illegal puppy rings was shut down. She didn’t know she was exposing a crime. She just knew her babies were in that van.
