Week in Review - February 8, 2013
Dozens of Dogs Found in Suspected Puppy Mill
64 Pomeranian dogs were taken from the home… Those Pomeranians range from two weeks to nine years old. None of them have been spayed or neutered. They all need to be vaccinated.
Why wasn't puppy mill found sooner?
Neighbors say they complained for years about barking and a strong odor at a home where 64 Pomeranians were living under one roof before authorities finally stepped in.
'Most popular' dogs also popular in puppy mills
Unfortunately, there’s a dark parallel between man’s very best friends and their prevalence in commercial breeding facilities, or “puppy mills.” It is in these facilities that a potential companion is seen as a commodity, and a long, dark history of animal welfare abuse emerges.
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I thought the United States Humane Society had hired paid officers to go around checking on complaints.. They take our donations and pay the officers good money to do nothing for the animals. No more donations from me. This just awful. USHS make the officers you have hired to get out there and work for these animals.
the HSUS, ASPCA , PETA an IFAW have enough money combined to stop this if they didn't pay huge salaries, huge fundraising fees and prioritized the ending of the abomination known as puppy mills, pet stores and online sales!! they are fundraising machines concerned with job secuirty! check out humane watch
add the AKC to that as well, they are only concerned with puppy registration and were prominently in attendance to register new dogs that were auctioned off feb 9th in wheaton, missouri. i was told by the missouri state ag director that the hsus campaigned to exclude "animal auctions" in the new bill (passed then repealed).....the akc wanted the dogs registered so that when they go back to the mills, the puppies were easily registered!! imagine a dog, out of his cage for the first time in years, on a table, auctioned, bid on, bought and back into a 4x4 for the rest of its life!! these organizations watch this and do NOTHING!!
and i sit here like an idiot on a beautiful day, with 6 dogs and 7 cats and it bothers the helll out of me!! but i volunteer- this is a passion not a paycheck!
My first puppy was a Poodle and my Dad took me to his friend's sister, who was an actual Breeder. I got to choose a little black ball of fluff, named him Happy because his tail wagged constantly. Overy twenty years later, during our anniversary week, married one year I picked out my next puppy, a gorgeous, fiesty, healthy little ball of white fluff. I named him Pablo and he was a West Highland White Terrier(Westie). I bought him from a pet store in a Mall near Boston, and he was the best dog I have ever had in my entire life. He had papers, was properly vaccinated, cared for and the pet store employees cared for their puppies,. they were wonderful, knowledgeable and very caring. Just because you see puppies in a store doesn't automatically mean they are from a "puppy mill, mistreated, or not properly vaccinated. There is a lot of puvblic education now and if you ask the fright questions, get a warranty, ask to see the vaccination records, for the birth history and parent lineage you will be happy with your puppy. Pablo lived 15 years and 4 months and gave me the most joy, love and was a member of our family. He was "my baby" for five years before I had a son.
I just have a question...I do agree with the whole idea of not buying pets so the pet stores go out of business, i.e. making the puppies safe from this kind of "milling." But what about the little innocent puppies? They didn't ask to be bred and beaten? Shouldn't we protect them too? If someone like Britney Spears can afford to take a hopeless sick puppy and pay Vet bills to make him/her better, isn't that a good thing? I mean, if she didn't buy the puppy, it would still be born, tortured, and sick?!? Isn't that what we are fighting against? They deserve rescue too!
I absolutely agree! It breaks my heart when I read things like "don't buy puppies from pet stores", so lets continue to deprive them from a better life and just prolong their misery :(
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