Hi Carol. I saw your comment and wanted to address it. Animates takes small breed puppies from the SPCA. They also sell kittens from the SPCA for adoption. $10 from each adoption of these animals goes to the SPCA. All puppies and kittens from the SPCA are desexed before being adopted. You probably won't see this as you posted such a long time ago, but hopefully this will be helpful to someone out there!
talk about conflicted, clicking on like when in fact I hate..this human who has the dogs kept like this deserves to be locked up and kept in like conditions, but even humans who have gone out and killed are treated better, these poor dogs only crime was to be born...a dog
What about people who are buying puppies in bulk from these mills and then on selling them, I am not referring to pet shops but members of the public? They are in my opinion almost worse than the breeders because for them it is for pure profit, not because they love the dogs. You just need to look on TradeMe and see there are some people who seem to have litter after litter for sale, but they can't or won't tell you who the breeder is, nor do they know anything about the mother or father of the puppies because they have never seen them!