Abandoned movie dogs -- Chihuahuas and Dalmatians -- and the voiceless foreclosure victims

Refereneces:
Patt Morrison (2008, Sep.30) .Abandoned movie dog—Chihuahuas Dalmatians—and the voiceless foreclose. Los Angeles Times


Recently, there is a movie called 《Beverly Hills Chihuahua》by played in the theater. It features cute dog, Chihuahua, which lives in a luxurious life in the Beverly Hills. How it wears and how luxurious it lives, give the audience a desire to own a dog like it. But here the author points out the phenomenon that once a movie about dogs comes out; there must be first a craze of buying Chihuahua. The puppy mills will go into overdrive to churn out lots and lots of Chihuahua. From a humane perspective, the mother dogs end up with death due to producing dogs litter after litter, month after month. Every time when I think of this, I am wondering how could people do this to them. Do not they know how harmful this will affect the mother-dogs’ bodies? The other effect is that there will be a lot of abandoned dogs in the animal shelter after the trend. He uses an ironic sentence at the beginning of the movie, “I can tell you before it even open what will happen.” People find them aren’t cute anymore like they suddenly realize that they are not stuffed doll but creatures that have needs and problems. So, they are dumped.
To ban on that kind of movies is impossible. The government and the movie makers should appeal to the idea of adopting dogs from animal shelters. It’s a lot cheaper than buying a dog from pet shops.