Archive for the ‘Puppy Mills’ Category
Monday, July 13th, 2009
July 19-25, 2009, is Best Friends Week, marking the 25th anniversary of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). The mission of Best Friends can be summed up in one phrase: No More Homeless Pets. The organization is a grassroots network of people and groups that care for and about animals.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
When Elmer and Ammon Zimmerman shot 80 Poodles, Shih Tzus and Cocker Spaniels to death on July 24, 2008, at their puppy breeding kennels in Berks County, Pennsylvania, they probably got a lot more national attention than a couple of Amish men would like to have. The incident served to ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
One thousand breeding dogs and puppies were rescued from Whispering Oaks Kennels in West Virginia on Saturday, August 24, 2008, through the efforts of the Humane Society of Parkersburg, the Woods County Sheriff's Office and PetSmart Charities' Emergency Relief Waggin'. The pure bred dogs included Dachshunds and Shih Tzus.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
In Pennsylvania, it is legal for commercial dog breeding kennel operators to kill their dogs. On July 24, 2008, Elmer Zimmerman, owner of E & A Kennel in Berks County, did just that. He shot and killed 70 dogs, while at about the same time, his brother Ammon Zimmerman, owner ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Thanks to the efforts of the Humane Society of the United States, more than 700 dogs were rescued from a puppy mill in Tennessee. The rescue operation cost more than $105,000, with a lot of volunteer support. You can help pay for this effort, and make the next one possible, ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A raid of Patricia Adkisson's Pine Bluff Kennels at her 92-acre farm in Hickman County, Tennessee, resulted in the rescue of nearly 700 dogs from deplorable conditions in what the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has described as a puppy mill. According to officials, some of the dogs ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Last July, when Paris Hilton bought a Chihuahua at Pets of Bel Air, she probably didn't know that this pet store buys and sells puppies bred at puppy mills. This information probably was not disclosed to Britney Spears either, when she stopped into Pets of Bel Air, also in July ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Yesterday I received an email from Gary Larrowe, County Administrator for Carroll County, VA. He wrote:
Thank you for your note. We have completed the physical rescue mission for the animals in Carroll County, VA at present. We were able to get hundreds of animals out to Adoption Agencies ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
The owner of a puppy mill in the town of Hillsville, Virginia, has consented to surrender over 980 dogs. Approximately 1,080 small breed dogs were on the premises when it was visited on November 1, 2007, by Carroll County Animal Control professionals and a veterinarian. This puppy mill was the ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
A puppy mill is a large-scale, substandard dog breeding operation. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that puppy mill dogs live in overcrowded and often unsanitary conditions, without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization. The breeding dogs often live their whole lives in these ...
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