For that reason we believe our solutions are credible. These breaches of common, humane treatment of animals have been reported to us about almost every pet store we know of, and we hope you will include protection for the helpless animals that are just merchandise to pet store owners. We would truly like to see pups kennelled only at night, and then with at least one other pup for company, and that pups be kept in a common play area during the day. Puppies get along with each other, and it would vastly help their healthy socialization, and their physical health too, as wrestling and playing helps their bones and muscles develop properly, and chewing on each other helps their teeth and jaws form properly, and teaches them social skills necessary for them to have long, happy, lives, and not be rejected and euthanised because of behaviour problems. There is no physical reason to justify the extreme cruelty of keeping puppies in isolation.
Dogs are by nature the most gregarious creatures in the world.
They do not wish to be alone for even one minute, much less months. Their physical and mental well-being requires the company of other dogs. We have witnessed a six-month old dog in a cage so small that it had to stand with its feet in its food and water bowls, and perpetually bow its head. That's why the pups are forced to endure such long periods of miserable, lonely isolation, and the physical cruelty of steel racks to live on. Pet store owners, in contradiction to their insistence that they treat their merchandise humanely, are reluctant to infringe on their bottom line by spending money to treat these helpless pups with common kindness.