about
westport coalition against puppy mills
Since 2006, this group of Fairfield County dog advocates has worked on education campaigns to expose the cruelty surrounding the commercial breeding of dogs for sale in pet stores. We are a group of Fairfield County residents with support from all over the country. We have not actively sought funding and wish we didn't have to spend our weekends and spare time educating communities on the perils of pet stores.
This is a horrific industry supported by pet store owners who sell dogs as a cash crop.
Hundreds of documents proving the problems of commercial breeding (puppy mills) have been gathered by our group. Many of the documents, identified using the Freedom of Information Act, show hundreds of instances of inbreeding, overbreeding and unsanitary conditions.
Each weekend, we conduct protests outside one of the stores that sells hundreds of puppies that begin their lives in puppy mills. Puppies of Westport sells dogs whose parents spend their entire lives in cages on dog farms, mostly in Missouri. Despite this reality, customers to the store are often told a very different story.
| Puppies of Westport is just one of thousands of pet stores in America that contribute to the cycle of puppy mills. Puppies of Westport sells dogs that come mostly from Missouri and surrounding states. The parents of the puppies spend their lives in cages until they can no longer be bred. Our group has paperwork confirming the rough and unsanitary conditions these dogs are kept in. The owners of Puppies of Westport claim the dogs they sell do not come from puppy mills. However, the paperwork that has been gathered shows the puppies come from large, commercial breeders that supply pet stores and puppy brokers across America. Pet stores are selling trendy, designer breed puppies that are taken from their mothers at an early age and loaded onto trucks to be distributed to stores. Puppies of Westport is an outlet for breeders who treat the dogs as a cash crop. |