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Pelto Bulldogges Puppy Cam
You’re not the only ones who fell head over paws for those delectable Shiba Inus bouncing around in front of a Web cam 24 hours a day, seven days a week back in 2008.
The award-winning cam has been joined by hundreds of other pups vying for your hearts at live broadcast site UStream. Largely in the homes of breeders, some of the cams are being used to market puppies to potential owners, some to allow would-be owners to track their new friends from birth until the day they can come home, and still more to open up the breeding process to ensure transparency in all that happens during a puppy’s life.
As Ed Pelto — owner of Olde English Bulldogges in Woodbury, Minn. and the person behind the Pelto Bulldogges Puppy Cam — explains to Paw Nation, avoiding a puppy mill is a lot easier when you can watch every moment of a dog’s life live on your computer.
“There’s no hiding anything here,” Pelto says. “With all the controversy, all the news and with these cams, how people still end up buying from puppy mills, I just don’t understand.”
But there’s a lot more to puppy cams than just folks looking to weed out the bad breeders. As Pelto says with a laugh, “Everybody loves puppies, don’t they?”
They love them enough to have pushed the Shiba Inus to the People’s Voice Award winner in the Viral category for the 13th Annual Webby Awards. And they love them enough that animal owners have been putting their pups on camera far before those balls of fur made for a frenzy.
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