Puppy Mill Auctions
What happens to dogs in puppy mills when they can no longer breed or produce puppies for the pet store trade?
They are trapped in a continual cycle of exploitation and abuse on auction blocks, in kennel sellouts, and kennel dispersals that take place in
many Midwestern states throughout most of the year. Most sales occur in Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri, where so-called breeder dogs are transported across state lines from Pennsylvania and other states to be sold to the highest bidder, or for as little as 25 cents.
Breed-specific rescues will often bid against huge commercial kennels to save their special breed, like the pitiful Dachshund pictured at right, still wearing her USDA tag, while others wait until the end of a long, tortuous day to gather up the sick, weak and unwanted. These rescues will then spends thousands of dollars to rehabilitate - medically, physically and emotionally - these pitiful, un-socialized dogs who would otherwise end up with bullets in their heads and thrown in a compost heap.
The pet industry is a dirty and greed-driven business and auctions are the end of the road for many dogs that have lived for up to 8 years in puppy mills. Kennel owners milk them for every ounce of life they can and then attempt to squeeze every last dime out of buyers for these dogs.
For more information on puppy mill auctions and the movement to end them, visit the links provided below; you can also Google “dog auctions” for more links not included here.
Best Friends site on Dog Auctions
Buckeye Dog Auction – A firsthand account
The highest concentration of puppy mills is found in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Nebraska. (Source: USDA)
Holmes County, Ohio has more Amish puppy mills than any other county in the nation and the majority of them are unlicensed.