Can
you step into the life of an animal in the pet trade for just one
minute?
This is what happens to animals before they end up in pet stores
and after they arrive. The pet trade treats animals as mere commodities to be
mass produced and peddled for profit. Animals are routinely denied
socialization, exercise, and everything else that is natural and important to
them—especially when they are taken from the wild—and they don't even receive
basic veterinary care in this cruel, money-hungry industry.
In addition,
breeders, pet shops, and puppy mills fuel the companion-animal overpopulation
crisis by bringing more animals into a world that is already bursting at the
seams with unwanted ones. Every newborn animal means that there is one home
fewer for a dog, a cat, or an exotic
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