Petition by Joshua

STOP PUPPY MILLS!

A petition by The Everyday Leaders at Atlanta Charter Middle School

How would you like to be stolen from your mother at birth and placed into a cramped, filthy cage for your entire life? How would you like to have to wallow around in your own filth and only get a piece of bread and a cup of water to eat every day? That is exactly how it is for puppies in puppy mills. They live their entire lives in terrible conditions. They are abused and neglected on a regular basis. We want to put a stop to this cruelty now. No creature, human or animal, should have to endure that kind of torture.

Many people go to pet stores ecstatic that they finally have their own pet. They would not be so happy if they knew where their animals came from. Would you buy your pet from a pet store knowing that their animals are shipped there from a puppy mill? Buying a pet from a pet store whose pets come from a puppy mill is just going to put money into the pockets of the puppy mill owners who care nothing about their animals. If puppy mills did not exist, than this would not be a problem. Not all pet stores get their animals from puppy mills, though. Buying pets from more legitimate pet stores is the first step towards getting rid of puppy mills.

In addition, many puppy mills are extremely abusive. They mistreat their animals for no good reason. The bad thing is, puppy mills are legal in many places. The abuse that they do there is illegal, however. So why would you legalize something that does illegal things? It makes no sense. Puppy mills should be abolished for good. We would like tougher laws in Georgia to ban animal ownership of the convicted of animal cruelty.

***The petition will be available to sign on April 23 at school and April 24 at the Inman Park Festival (see early post for details!)