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 [...]
A recurring theme in our blog posts is the need for legislative and regulatory oversight to force puppy mills to finally make the necessary changes. But those in positions of power also have to hit the millers where it really counts: the pocketbook. As we’ve seen, mills can be extremely lucrative, between the low cost [...]
About a year ago, a new pet store opened up in our neighborhood, Pet Fashion. This was the third such store in NYC. I hadn’t previously known about the chain but couldn’t escape this store — it was located blocks from home and right across the street from the store we use for Abby 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 [...]
Zoey would like to introduce you to Sariel. Sariel was recently rescued from a large-scale dog breeding facility in Nebraska where she was found in very poor condition due to years of neglect and over breeding. The following paragraph contains information from a blog written by Hearts United for Animals (HUA), the organization that [...]
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