Years ago, as memories blend decades together, one looks back on their childhood days and may recall a family pet that still resides in that gray pudding upstairs. You remember picking up a puppy at the humane society or a rural farmhouse for a whopping $5. It doesn’t sound like much today, but it equated to a paper shopping bag full of groceries, including meat. Today that 1 bag may be in excess of $60. So roughly, 1 puppy cost a week’s worth of human food and it would selectively eat the left overs. It didn’t really matter. You had a new friend that loved you unconditionally. If your pet got sick, it’s immune system fixed the problem or the pet died and dad buried it in the back yard. Only valuable farm animals got to go to the vet for a $20 fee. That’s 4 puppies worth. Somewhere over the last 4 decades, marketing geniuses deemed these animal doctors
to be much more valuable and veterinarian bills skyrocketed, along with the base price of family pets. A cheap dog starts at $200 and desireable, but disease prone, custom breeds can exceed 10 times that. The 2008 economic meltdown was the 1st test to see how much people would pay for maintaining their family pet. No one balked. Although mom had to cut back on her beauty items, Rover still ate $50 a bag dog food, which is essentially: ground up, rendered animals and plants. The next test was 2019 Covid Epidemic, which saw the sticker price on mutts climb through the atmosphere. A no name breed could pull $500 and a breed that shows up in movies, now costs as much as $2K, a used car price before Covid. Any clown with a male and female dog, bred these creatures until the bitch’s uterus fell out. With a 60 day gestation period and another 60 days of weening, 1 could theoretically get 3
batches of critters to come from 2 dogs. With litters from 4 to 8 puppies per pair, that’s close to 20 mutts per year or $10 grand/ breeding parents. Puppy Mills were born out of greed.
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