There are 4,000,000 puppies bred in puppy mills each year! I really tried to get my head around exactly what four million puppies would look like. These 4 million puppies wind up in pet stores, with brokers, online and being bred over and over again. Here’s what I found: -The population for Puerto Rico, Kentucky and [...]
Go The Distance Everyone who’s read this blog knows that Zoey was born into a puppy mill in Missouri and that we returned there last summer to rescue her mom and dad from the same mill. (And to the pet store that is probably reading this blog right now it WAS A PUPPY MILL. Face [...]
Here’s something I’ve been thinking a bunch about recently — how much Zoey enjoys life, and how it would have been such a waste for her not to have the chance to live it. Let’s start from the top. Most of you reading this entry are probably already aware of the Zoey’s medical travails in [...]
It dawned on me the other day that I haven’t really described much about the little dog whose remarkable story sparked our interest in puppy mills, which eventually begat this blog. So, here are a few words about our little Zoey, now 8 months old and about 10 lbs. Zoey is, first and foremost, full of [...]
So I know everyone reading this is probably thinking, “Of course I know what a puppy mill is.” Well, since Puppy Mill Awareness Day is coming up tomorrow (9/19/09), I thought I would review what I consider to be a puppy mill. From what I understand, some pet stores have actually taken legal action against protesting non-profits [...]
During World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a series of films called “Why We Fight” for the general public to educate them about why the war was necessary – essentially by spotlighting how awful the Nazis and Japanese were – so that Americans could understand the gravity of the global situation and steel themselves [...]
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