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Missouri Puppy Mill Busts Piling Up
February 25, 2009 : 12:59 PM
Two Major Busts in Two Weeks
by Debbie Watson, Best Friends Network Volunteer
What a difference two weeks make for approximately 300 lucky puppy mill dogs, a domestic cat and a Bengal tiger! On Friday, February 13, 2009, nearly 100 dogs were rescued from a puppy mill operation in Greene County, Missouri, by the Humane Society of Missouri's Animal Cruelty Task Force.
Second Puppy Mill Raid
On February 20th, in a second puppy mill bust in as many weeks, dog breeder Margaret J. Bond, 66, of Newton County, Missouri was charged with two misdemeanor counts of animal abuse.
Showing no prejudice to any particular breed or animal, Bond was housing 208 dogs, a domesticated cat and one Bengal tiger on her property near Seneca, Missouri—which is about five hours southwest of St. Louis. Bond owned approximately 130 small breed dogs such as Boston terriers, Chihuahuas, Lhasa apsos, miniature pinschers, Pomeranians and West Highland white terriers and 25–30 large breed dogs, including Siberian huskys, chow chows, and Chinese shar-peis. Among the dogs rescued, 30 are puppies and about four dogs are pregnant.
Multiple Convictions
Bond’s disposition hearing is scheduled for March 9, 2009 at 3:30 in the Newton County Courthouse. In the meantime, she is free with no bond set, facing a fine of up to $1,000 and up to a year in jail for each count. Newton County Prosecutor Jacob Skouby explains that although the conditions she created for those animals were hideous, her actions are only considered misdemeanors because Bond has no prior convictions.
However, the Missouri Department of Agriculture spokesperson Misti Preston says Bond does have prior convictions. In August 2007, Bond, who also goes by the name Jewel Bond, had her breeding license suspended after officials seized more than 150 animals from her property.
Substandard Conditions Found by Rescue Workers
According to a probable cause statement by rescue workers on the scene, the dogs were “sitting in feces and urine, without food or water, many of them crammed together into single cages. Their hair was matted or contaminated with animal waste. Some were hairless and dog food bags were found which held skeletal remains of dogs and puppies."
The affidavit also stated: "The Bengal Tiger was caged and malnourished to the point its ribs were showing. Its hair had mud and feces and its paws were infected from exposure to animal waste. It had no food or water."
2009 Has Already Seen 22 Busts in Missouri
Bond isn't alone in her despicable criminal behavior toward animals. Since January, the Missouri Department of Agriculture has taken 22 enforcement actions on substandard Missouri breeding facilities and rescued 920 animals.
Humane Society of Missouri Caring for Dogs
According to an article in the Fort Mill Times, the Humane Society of Missouri is housing and caring for the Seneca animals in its St. Louis facility. It hopes to be awarded custody of as many animals from this bust as possible, pending the results of the disposition hearing on March 9th. If guardianship is granted to the shelter, at that point the Humane Society will make the dogs available for adoption as soon as they are physically and emotionally ready to become family members.
For more information about the February 20 bust:
• Fort Mill Times article
• Photos and information about the dogs rescued from the puppy mill
What You Can Do
• The Humane Society of Missouri in St. Louis is urgently appealing for items such as: dog food, blankets, towels, newspapers and dog toys, as well as cash donations. To donate go to www.hsmo.org or call 314-951-1542.
• If you live in Missouri, to report animal abuse or if you suspect a puppy mill, call: 314-647-440
• Download the guide "Nine Things You Can Do to Help Stop Puppy Mills."
• Join the Truth About the Pet Trade campaign to keep abreast about pet mill busts around the country.
Photograph by Mike Bizelli of the Humane Society of Missouri
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Wash. Lawmakers Approve Crackdown on Puppymills
04:16 PM PDT on Monday, April 20, 2009
By KING5.com Staff and Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington state Legislature has approved a measure cracking down on dog breeders who operate puppy mills.
Under the bill, dog breeders and owners would be barred from owning more than 50 dogs over six months old that are not neutered or spayed.
Anyone who has more than 10 unaltered dogs that spend most of their time in pens must house the dogs in clean and dry conditions. Dogs would have to be provided with food, water and exercise.
Retail pet stores, veterinary facilities, boarding facilities and some others would be exempt.
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"We are one step closer to ending the horrific scenes of malnourished dogs covered in their own waste that we all witnessed in the media this winter," said bill sponsor Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle. "Animals are not commodities; this bill helps to ensure that puppies and dogs in large commercial breeding facilities are treated humanely."
Two Seattle girls, Theresa Edwards and Audrey Long, brought the idea of the bill to the senator in 2007 and testified at all public hearings on the bill, as well as last year on a similar bill.
The Senate, on a 43-4 vote Monday, sent the measure to Gov. Chris Gregoire for final approval.
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RESCUE ALERT:
204 DOGS RESCUED FROM MIDWEST PUPPY MILLS
After being rescued from 13 different puppy mills in the Midwest, 204 cast-off purebred dogs are now safe at North Shore Animal League America. This was a collaborative effort with National Mill Dog Rescue and Best Friends Animal Society.
Among the rescued dogs are adults that were used for breeding, adolescents and puppies, including various breeds such as Cocker Spaniels, Chihuahuas, mini Pinchers, Jack Russell terriers and poodle mixes.
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After medical treatments and behavioral evaluations these dogs will be ready for adoption. Some of the animals will be available for adoption on Saturday, May 16, on a first come, first serve basis.
To learn what to expect and how to properly care for a puppy mill rescue dog:
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North Shore Puppy Mill Rescue/Adoption Update
After being rescued from 13 different puppy mills in the Midwest, 204 purebred dogs are now safe at North Shore Animal League America. We are happy to let you know that after medical treatments and behavioral evaluations, some of the dogs are now ready for adoption.
Among the rescued dogs are adults that were used for breeding, adolescents and puppies, including various breeds such as Cocker Spaniels, Chihuahuas, mini Pinchers, Jack Russell Terriers and Poodle mixes.
The evaluations will continue over the next few weeks, so if you are interested in adopting one of these wonderful purebred dogs please come to our shelter to bring home your new best friend!
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ASPCA Rescues Over 300 Animals from deplorable conditions!
On Tuesday morning, May 19, the ASPCA was on hand in Cazenovia, WI, to assist in the raid of an animal sanctuary, the Thyme and Sage Ranch. The ASPCA Forensic Cruelty Investigation and Disaster Response teams, as well as our Mobile Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit, are currently working alongside the Richland County Sheriff’s Department to collect evidence and evaluate the animals found at the site.
UPDATE
Approximately 374 animals were discovered during the execution of the search warrant, led by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. Most of the animals were housed in deplorable conditions. On May 21, 2009, Jennifer Petkus, the founder of the Thyme and Sage Ranch was charged with 11 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty and 5 forfeitures. More than 270 animals have been relinquished by Ms. Petkus to animal welfare groups throughout Wisconsin and will eventually be made available for adoption. The ASPCA continues to collect evidence and actively aid the prosecution in building the criminal case.
Sadly, this is a story we hear far too often. While these animals are finally receiving the care they need and deserve, there are still countless others who need our help. Your support makes it possible for the ASPCA to travel the country and rescue animals from horrendous conditions like these. It is your generosity that allows our experts to assist national and local law enforcement agencies in their efforts to build cases against and prosecute animal cruelty offenders.
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AdminPermalink Reply by LM Fowler - Admin on -
Well, OK then. LOL
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Member Since 2009Permalink Reply by Beth davis on -
In washington about a month ago there was a sexer of about 300 dogs taken from a American eskimo puppy mill.
here is a link
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By Suzanne Smalley | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 11, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jul 20, 2009
Bill Smith has dedicated his life to fighting "puppy mills," the warehouses where dogs are raised for profit in tiny cages, denied sufficient medical care, and often killed when they get sick or can no longer breed. Smith noticed that many of the farms around his shelter facility, near the heart of puppy-mill country in Lancaster County, Pa., were displaying signs boasting that they were or-ganic dairy operations. Smith found that one mill—B&R Puppies, which had been cited by authorities as recently as a year ago for housing dogs in squalid cages and failing to vaccinate them—was also supplying milk to Horizon Organics. Horizon is a major presence in markets like Whole Foods, where animal welfare is paramount.
My April article, "A (Designer) Dog’s Life," highlighted Smith's efforts. Before NEWSWEEK published the story, I notified Horizon and Whole Foods that my piece would reveal they were buying and peddling organic milk from a farmer who mistreated dogs. Horizon sent an inspector to B&R the next day and found dogs living in filth. The company suspended the farmer, John Stoltzfus, who has since dismantled his dog-breeding operation, according to Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture records. That allowed him to resume supplying Horizon, which he began doing earlier this month.
Smith demanded that Whole Foods send several hundred vendors a letter warning of repercussions for inhumane dog breeding. In mid-May, the grocery chain issued a stern request that ven-dors "not supply any products to our stores that have been sourced from farmers…who breed or raise dogs inhumanely." Smith says the Whole Foods letter was a "huge step" forward because "consumers have always had the power to close these facilities."
Smith is now focused on getting other companies to do the same; this week he makes his plea in a full-page ad in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer, whose publisher adopted a dog from Smith's shelter, gave Smith the ad space for almost nothing. "If other companies follow Whole Foods' lead, farmers everywhere who are operating puppy mills as side businesses will either clean up their acts or stop breeding dogs altogether," Smith says. He'll make sure of it.
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A (Designer) Dog’s Life
If the Obamas choose a hybrid, unethical breeders will try to cash in—and puppies are likely to suffer.
By Suzanne Smalley | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 4, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009
The White County sheriff's department noticed the stench from a mile up the road. By the time rescuers entered the series of sheds in Sparta, Tenn., some were forced to wear respirators. Inside each shed were scores of dogs in tiny cages, many covered in feces. The sheds reeked of urine and were so frigid the officers had to set up portable heaters to work inside. Authorities, who raided the farm in February after receiving tips from angry customers who'd purchased sick puppies, discovered 300 dogs on the three-acre property—many of them malnourished, mangy and infected by parasites. Some were housed a half dozen to a cage in near total darkness. Many of the pups were "designer dogs"—trendy new breeds like puggles (which result when a pug is bred with a beagle), Maltepoos (a Maltese-poodle mix) and Chipins (a Chihuahua-pinscher cross). "It's market driven," says Melinda Merck, a forensic veterinarian who assisted with the Tennessee raid. "People just see a designer breed and say, 'I've never heard of that dog but it sounds cute'." And for puppy mills like this one, designer dogs—many of which sell for more than $1,000 apiece—have become a huge business.
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Member Since 2009Permalink Reply by Beth davis on -
yes that is what i meant a seizure not sexer
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Reply on November 24, 2008 at 12:17pm
Puppy Mill Rescue in Ohio!
Angels for Animals rescues 31 dogs from Logan County puppy mills
ELIDA - Nearly three dozen puppies will get a new lease on life thanks to the efforts of a local non-profit group.
Angels for Animals, an animal rescue group from Elida, went to several so-called Amish puppy mills in Logan County this week. The mission was simple - save the animals from deplorable conditions and almost certain death.
"The puppies were from Amish that all they do is breed the dogs to sell the puppies for profit," Sandy Laing, president of Angels for Animals, said. "There's a lady in Cincinnati that's been going to these mills every 30 days for about two years and taking what dogs they do not want instead of killing them, which is what they normally do. She gives them a small amount of money for each dog so they can continue living and have a wonderful life."
It was the first time the local group has traveled to a puppy mill to pick up animals. The mills, Laing said, do not let people inside to see the conditions. Animal rescue officials, however, get a sense of the conditions inside the mills once they assess the rescued animals, she said.
"All the dogs were kept in barns, all the buildings were unheated. A lot of the dogs are short-haired breeds so I'm sure they were very cold," Laing said. "Most of the dogs have not had much socialization so they're very shy. Most of them needed groomed because they are very smelly, matted. A lot of them had skin conditions from not being cleaned."
A veterinarian was spending Friday looking over the dogs and making sure they are healthy and up-to-date on vaccinations. A number of dogs were also sent out to be groomed and brought back to the facility, Laing said.
Puppy mills are fairly common around the area, Laing said. The mills are unfortunate, she said, because they don't treat the animals well, raising them to be sold at pet stores and elsewhere.
"We had one right here in Allen County in the latter part of the summer that we took their dogs," Laing said. "In the Amish communities they are a way to make money that's easy for the people. Unfortunately, they don't take good care of the animals."
The goal for Angels for Animals, a group that's been around more than nine years, is to find good, loving homes for the animals, Laing said.
"They'll be put up for adoption. The ones that are very shy will be sent to Allen Correctional Institution for the inmates to work with them," she said. "Some of them are nice enough that they'll go right into homes."
The conditions the animals live in before they are rescued is heart-breaking, Laing said.
"It absolutely breaks my heart as an animal lover to think these people are using them as a means to make money instead of going out to get a regular job," she said. "They're not here for that purpose. They deserve and need to be loved and cared for and we adopt them out with that in mind only." -
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Reply on November 24, 2008 at 12:22pm
New dog law: Legislation targets poor treatment at ‘mills’
By PATRICK BUCHNOWSKI
The Tribune-Democrat
The showdown between dog lovers and dog breeders ended when Gov. Ed Rendell signed into law a bill cracking down on ill treatment of dogs at large breeding kennels.
More than a month after HB 2525 was signed, those on both sides are digesting its impact.
Some are not happy, and say the animal-rights supporters went too far. Supporters of the bill say it protects the animals from neglect and abuse.
“Some provisions of the dog law are for all owners, but mostly it’s for larger kennels,” said D Black, executive director of the Cambria County Humane Society in Richland Township.
Animal shelters, mainly those in the state’s eastern region, end up taking in sick puppies and female dogs that are over-bred and no longer useful to kennels.
The law seeks to curb puppy mills that produce large numbers of purebreds, often under miserable conditions that can lead to birth defects and disease.
The new law made it illegal for dog breeders to:
n Use wire flooring in cages;
n Stack cages;
nSqueeze animals into cages that are too small.
The law requires exercise and twice yearly veterinary exams for dogs, and the new standards apply to anyone selling more than 60 dogs in a year or anyone selling a dog to a pet shop or wholesaler.
Officials say the changes affect roughly 650 of the 2,750 licensed kennels in the state.
Out of business?
Some say animal-rights supporters have an agenda.
“A lot of people are going to be put out of business because of this bill,” said state Rep. Bob Bastian, R-Somerset. “That’s definitely their agenda.”
Bastian, a retired veterinarian, said caring for the dogs should be left to the attending vet and depends largely on the breed and size of dogs.
“A one-size-fits-all bill is not going to work,” he said.
The bill’s signing comes in the wake of some high-profile raids of illegal puppy mills.
The shooting of 80 dogs at a Berks County kennel in August by a breeder who was ordered to provide vet care for flea bites is widely believed to be the impetus for the bill’s quick passage, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In May, a state dog warden and a Somerset County humane society officer seized 17 dogs from an illegal Amish puppy mill near Meyersdale. The dogs were kept in wire cages in a dark barn, where the breeding females received little exercise.
The breeder, Bennie Hostetler, 41, told authorities said he sold the puppies for $150 each to a man who takes them to a pet store in eastern Pennsylvania, where they often sell for $500 or more.
“Those are the worst of the commercial breeding kennels,” said Chris Ryder, press secretary for the state Department of Agriculture.
“This will go a long way to shutting down puppy mill operations,” he said.
‘Breed for quality’
Dale and Lorri Barron breed Siberian huskies at Lauradale Kennel in Jefferson Township. Two of their dogs appeared a few years ago in the Disney movie “Eight Below.”
Lorri Barron called HB 2525 a good law but one that needs some changes.
The law, she said, requires animals be kept in 50-85 degree temperatures.
“Sporting dogs, sled dogs, Siberian huskies like the cold weather,” she said. “My point for commercial kennels is the temperatures should be regulated according to the breed of dogs.”
Barron said the law does not impact her business because they don’t breed 60 or more dogs a year and do not sell to pet stores.
“We try to breed for quality, not quantity,” she said.
But Ryder said the bill was amended before passage after sportsman’s groups and small breeder raised concerns.
The few new requirements to those breeders is limited to having fire extinguishers available and a vet approved exercise plan, he said.
“There is very little in this bill that will effect them,” Ryder said. -
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