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From: kitten@pertec.UUCP (karen hettinger)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Pet shoppe clarification - (nf)
Message-ID: <193@pertec.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 02:45:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 02:45:35 1984
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There is also a 'back scenes' to some pet stores...the places that supply
them usually aren't what *I* would call breeders - more like puppy factories.
The poor females are bred constantly until they become sterile or die, and
live in small, above-ground hutches (like rabbits).  They are never allowed
out of their hutches, no place to run, nothing to do but be bred, eat, sleep,
urinate, defecate, and bear puppies.  Not all pet shops are supplied by such
puppy factories, but when I buy my cocker, I'm not going to support one
by buying at a pet store, I'm going directly to a breeder.  My sister just
recently became the proud mother of a rambuncious cocker puppy named
"Corky" (a buff) and she is just thrilled with his personality and dispo-
sition.  Of course, my mother, who used to be a breeder of show cockers
back East, knows a good stop when she sees one!  Anyway, I can wait to
meet the little guy, unfortunately, he is 450 miles away.  Maybe, before
he grows up?

kitten~
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