Have you ever wondered where that cute dog in the pet store window came from? That tiny adorable puppy has had a rough life behind it. That poor dog came from a puppy mill. 

Puppy mills are the industry that is essentially a puppy factory who sells their dogs in bulk to pet stores. These are also a significant number of breeders. Puppy mills jobs are to produce the cute, popular, "pure" bred dogs. Their main focus is their profit, not the dogs. The want to maximize profit and minimize spending.

In order to do this, the dogs are kept in small cages, poor nutrition, poor vetting. The mothers are bred until they no longer can, and are then either killed or if a rescue managers to save them, they will go to a rescue. The cages they are in are rarely cleaned, and leads to disease, sickness, growths on their body. When they are cleaned, the workers simply use a powerful hose to spray the cages clean, with the dogs inside the cage. Dogs have lost eyes due to the powerful water.

Dogs are emaciated, because their very little food portion is contaminated, and their water bowls are filled with algae. So these dogs are practically skin and bones, so how would they be in the shape to breed? Confusingly, puppy mills still pull off breeding millions of dogs at these fast rates. A female dog is used to breed until she can't anymore. Then instead of having that poor dog have a happy ever after, the puppy mills shoot those dogs because they aren't able to breed,  because otherwise they will be taking up space in their puppy mills. 

The best way to stop this is to stop buying dogs from pet stores and online. There are millions of dogs available for adoption, of every breed and every age. The process is harder to adopt because rescues go through a vigorous vetting process to ensure that the adopting family is the best fit for the dogs, and the dog is the best fit for the adopting family. 

In Teaneck, we have an ordinance that does not allow the sale of dogs or cats. However, as with any other unethical, immoral, or illegal practice, there are loopholes to be found. Currently, Wayne's puppies is set to open on Cedar Lane in Teaneck, NJ. The premise of this not for sale puppy store, is that it is essentially a showroom for dogs, and then you are sent to their Wayne store to purchase the dogs, where it is legal to do so. This unethical behavior must be stopped and Wayne's puppies is not welcome in Teaneck. Teaneck is not a place dogs are for sale. 

We petition the Teaneck Township Council, the Health Department, the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Zoning Sub-Committee to pass an ordinance that will not allow dogs to be sold in our stores, or used as a showroom for neighboring towns that do allow this inhumane practice. Do NOT let Wayne's Puppies to open in Teaneck!