Pet store dogs. Is there anything good we can say pet shops that sell dogs? The dogs almost always come from puppy mills. They’re then kept in tiny cages where they’re usually forced to urinate and defecate in their own cages, making it even harder to crate train these dogs. Even in the "best" of situations, it’s bad. But when they’re living like this, well, something needs to be done:

The first thing that hits you when you walk in is the smell.  A funky
mixture of cigarettes, old fish tank water, and dogs.  And there on the
floor, on a diarrhea stained newspaper, were  puppies that barely
lifted their head when we walked in.  Their food bowl contained dry dog
food that at one time had been watered down, but was now hard and
crusty on top.  It was covered in fly’s.  The puppies were on old
stained newspaper, and the one that did get up to see us was stepping
in little puddles of dog diarrhea.

Tennessee-Mom has more at her place about this, including a general location. When I have time, I’m going to try to get out there myself so I can call Metro Nashville’s animal control. If you’re in the Nashville area, please consider going out there yourself so you can also call. Perhaps together we can get this place shut down. 

Photo (which has nothing to do with this post, I just really liked it) Credit: Brittney on Flickr