I want to make puppy mills illegal in every state. Puppy mills are horrible places where dogs are kept in wire cages with no heating. They often hurt their paws and legs because of the wires. They sit in their own faeces and urine and they get internal parasites, and there is little to none veterinary care so many die. Mother dogs get hardly any time to rest in between pregnancies. Approximately 2 million dogs die in puppy mills each year, mother dogs are euthanized when they can not have puppies anymore and many puppies are taken from their mothers too soon and die from disease because of it. Most dogs you buy from the pet store are from puppy mills, which means they are lucky to be alive and healthy. If a dog is sick because of infection, or if it Is a mother dog that can not have puppies anymore then owners often brutally murder the dogs by starving, drowning, shooting, beating, or burying them alive.  So please sign this petition so we can end puppy mills  EVERYWHERE, and help these innocent dogs. It is particularly important that puppy mills get banned in Missouri because there are 30 puppy mills. I have learned that California has banned puppy mills, this is a great start but we need to continue banning until they are illegal in all states. We should be adopting. There are a lot of stray dogs in America so we should be giving them forever homes not giving money to some person so they can treat dogs horribly.