Research Process

       This (last) week my group almost completed our research stage of our CBL project. The different research methods we used were polling people on the street and surveys for students and teachers at school. We are waiting on an email back from the OSPCA with questions about puppy mills, and I am going to set up a phone interview with a woman in the community with information about puppy mills sometime this week (fingers crossed).

       Our research process went pretty well, the surveys gave us a good idea of what our school knows about puppy mills and how many pets of fellow students and teachers came from puppy mills. I think that the surveys were the most valuable form of research that we did, because we got to hear from the students and teachers directly. I was surprised to find that 4 people in the school claimed to know of puppy mills in the area, and that there were equal amounts of people aware and unaware of the conditions of puppy mills. However, if we were to do this again, I think that it would be more effective to make a survey that focuses more on dogs, since our pet survey is about all pets not just dogs, which are our main concern since our project is about puppy mills. This would give us a better idea of how our community gets their pet dogs, how they behave, and if the two are related.