Author Archives: zoeystory

Progress… Oklahoma-Style

By zoeystory | Published: October 17, 2010

By many estimates, Oklahoma is second only to Missouri in number of puppy mills.  Positive regulatory changes become effective in November, but in the meantime, authorities are stepping up their efforts to curb the worst practitioners by all legal means possible.  This is the happy next step to a horrible story from earlier this year […]

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A Different Kind of Adoption Story

By zoeystory | Published: October 10, 2010

Not all pet adoptions are created equal. While most are people walking into a shelter, pound or other animal organization to pick out the animal of their choice, there are others that don’t fit easily into a box.  This article is one of the most heart-warming we’ve read in quite some time and is a […]

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Arkansas puppy mill dogs abandoned and left for dead – No Arrest?

By zoeystory | Published: October 6, 2010

Check out a recent discovery just outside of Waldron, Arkansas in Scott County.  A woman who at one point had a puppy mill decided to just abandon those dogs and one cat.  She indicated that she was checking on the dogs every 4 days to bring them food and water. However, there was NO running […]

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False Advertising

By zoeystory | Published: September 26, 2010

If you look really closely, you’ll see this is a picture of Zoey. Months after we brought her home from Raising Rover and Baby, “Manhattan’s One of a Kind Puppy and Baby Boutique,” she was still being advertised on this website by the owner of the store, who claims repeatedly that he “is not an Internet […]

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What does 4 MILLION look like?

By zoeystory | Published: September 18, 2010

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 […]

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Out of Business

By zoeystory | Published: September 12, 2010

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 […]

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