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__Survery Answers__ 1-3 are your opinion 4) 300,000 5) 25 million 6) All animals listed 7) The majority of animals in laboratories are purpose-bred (bred specifically to be used in experiments). People who sell purpose-bred animals are categorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as class A dealers. Some of the dogs and cats used in laboratories are purchased from brokers known as class B dealers, who acquire the animals at auctions, from newspaper ads, or from various other sources including some animal shelters (a practice known as "pound seizure"). Pound seizure laws vary from state to state with a few states requiring shelters to give up their animals for used in experiments and some prohibiting the seizure of shelter animals for research. Some states have no laws at all, leaving it up to the individual shelter or locality. Finally, some animals used in experiments are taken from the wild—including monkeys, mice, rats and birds. 8) They are euthanized. 9) Puppy mills: Puppy mills are "a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs" according to the ASPCA. Unlike most breeders who take the most and upmost care for the puppies, the owners of puppy mills only care about the profit they make on the dogs. The owners of puppy mills usually sell the puppies to pet stores at an age around only eight weeks old. When the puppy gets to its new home, their new owners may discover different disorders they had gotten through the harsh conditions of the mill. They also have disorders because genetic abnormalities due to incest within breeding the dogs. Along with the disorders and illnesses the puppies can get in the mills, they can become exhibit fearful behaviors towards humans and have a lack of socialization towards humans and other animals Dog Fights: Dog fights are a horrible type of blood sport were people take two innocent animals and make them fight to the death so they can get the thrill of watching a creature kill another one along with the satisfaction of their urge to gamble. The dogs mainly used in the fights are Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, and American Pit Bull Terriers, better known as by pit bulls, because of their ancestry is full of blood-lust because off the decades of being in the sport People will tamper with the dog's instinct to attack another dog and completely manipulate that impulse causing the dog to attack its opponent even after the other dog has given up, usually resulting in either major damage of the loser or even death. Usually, when an animal saving organization comes to rescue the dogs in the fights, they are too drastically physically and mentally unhealthy they must be euthanized (Bank). Factory Farm: Factory farming is where all of store bought meat once lived as livestock. The condition of this type of farming is virtually unbearable. Thousands of animals are crammed into various cruel environments. These animals live their whole lives in windowless sheds and wire cages. The only time these animals will ever see sunlight is when they get loaded in trucks to become slaughtered. Some animals do not even get a chance to experience this short amount of freedom because they get sick and die within the farm they are raised in. Factory farming is not designed to be humane to animals; the only reason factory farms are made for is to have a high output while less costs. The animals are fed drugs to fatten and keep them alive long enough to kill them for food. Since they are jammed into sheds and filthy feedlots, they cannot turn around or even lie down let alone allowing them the deprived to exercise. This is excellent to the factory owners and people in general because the lack of energy the animals use on their own body so they can use all the built up energy will be able to go towards their flesh, eggs or milk. Along with all of their energy going towards their byproducts, the owners of these farms cause genetic alternations towards the animals to produce more of their byproducts in more quantity and speed (PETA “Factory Farming Cruelty to Animals”). 10) []