I received the following email from a student at Stephen F. Austin U, requesting help for a project on puppy mills. Since many of you have more experience with them than I do, I offered to post her email to the blog. If you can help Melissa with good information or anecdotes, please leave a comment in the comments section.
"I am a student at SFA and an active reader of your blog....I would love for you to answer some questions for a project I am doing about cruelty in Puppy Mills. Do you
think enough people know about puppy mills? Do you think enough action is being
taken to stop puppy mills? What of your thoughts of what should be done to raise
awareness of this issue? I would love to hear your thoughts, comments, and concerns."
I am going to forward this link to Melissa, and she'll be checking for comments.
Your Comments..
ANY comments with profanity will be deleted as soon as I find them, and your IP address will be banned. If you can't make your point without cursing, you don't have any business posting.
Better watch out for AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act)...you might very well be held liable if you interfer with cruel puppy mills....
Yeah..like I would let that stop me! Just one more hurdle to be overcome. To classify Constitutionally protected actions as "Terrorism" is moronic. I would like to read about the first test of this Law and I wonder what PETA thinks about this?? And who authored this Bill??
Ray
--Posted by: webelder at December 6, 2006 9:14 PM
All those poor little dogs at the petstores are from puppy mills.
This is a great thing to do a report on! Good Luck!!!
-doglover
--Posted by: morgan at December 5, 2006 5:03 PM
Hearts United for Animals (www.hua.org) has great information on puppy mills. They are dedicated to getting the message out and have been involved in numerous puppy mill rescues. They would be a very valuble source of information for you. Check out their site! Good luck on your paper and it is a great topic that needs to be addressed. I think most people are just not informed and the more we can educate them, the closer we can come to shutting the horrid places down - for good!
--Posted by: Shari Wilson at December 5, 2006 12:58 PM
I'm a local trainer and I don't think enough people know about puppy mills- most of the general public don't know they exist. Everytime you buy a dog from a pet store it will come from a puppy mill. The same goes for most of the pure-bred dogs sold at flea markets and in the classifieds.
There is defintely not enough being done to stop them but I have no suggestions for solutions besides education of consumers. Perhaps banning the sale of puppies in pet stores would be one step in the right direction.
I think when people realize not only where their dogs came from but the conditions the dogs were born and raised in will they stop buying puppy mill puppies. They also need to learn that there are long term problems associated with these dogs including lack of socialization, "dirty dog syndrome" and genetic problems.
--Posted by: Holly Furgason at December 5, 2006 10:57 AM
www.nopuppymills.com
www.stoppuppymills.org
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cruelty_puppymills
www.puppymills.com
www.hsus.org/ace/11797
If you go to the utube website and type in Puppy Mills, you will find several heartbreaking raw footage of puppy mills.
Melissa, with finals around the corner I haven't been able to get in this blog recently. I forwarded this to my animal rescue board and hopefully you will get more repsonses. GOOD LUCK! I think this is an awesome topic for a project.
www.unitedagainstpuppymills.org/mills.html
www.idausa.org/campaigns/puppy/puppymills.html
www.puppymillrescue.com
There are some links to get your started! GOOD LUCK! :-)
--Posted by: Sheila at December 5, 2006 8:32 AM
