I hear all the time about Puppy Mills...they don't care how well their adult dogs are as long as they can give birth to puppies. Then when the adult dogs don't come into heat like they are suppose to they take them around back and shoot them. Puppy Mill owners have all their dogs in a small cage about the size the dog is him/herself..they have a little if not any food or water sources and the puppies that are born there are covered in their own and their mothers fecies because the owners are to lazy to clean out the cages. If a dog/puppy passes they leave them in the cage to decompose with their sisters and brothers..and the mom all crawling over and on top of it..then the pet stores buy the puppies off of the puppy mills and when a loving family buys them off the pet stores the puppy dies days later. This has got to stop...take a stand agianst puppy mills and together we can make a difference..don't buy puppies off of Pet Stores, if you want a dog go to your local pet adoption center..I can guarentee they will last longer. STOP PUPPY MILLS ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!