Puppymill Malnurishment

Note the 3rd dog from the left in the above photo , skin and bones.

Something has to be in the puppymill law about properly feeding the mother dogs during pregnancy and nursing. The mills feed the cheapest of the cheap , bottom of the barrel dog food and produce unhealthy puppies. Just because a dog is of good weight does not mean its not malnourished, ALL the dogs I get here are so malnourished I have to build them up for 3 weeks before my Vet will touch them.

Below is a 4 month old American Eskimo puppy , weighs only 4 pounds. Has Demodex mange , his jaw is malformed , his back leg is malformed , and he fractured his front leg by simply playing for the first time in his life. It should NOT have fractured that easily. But he came from a malnourished mother.