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Across America, there are hundreds of thousands of dogs living inside the horrific walls of puppy mills mass-breeding puppies for their entire lives. The mill operators take extremely poor care of the animals, rarely providing healthcare and adequate food, water, and shelter. The dogs are abused and neglected until, hopefully, they are rescued from the mill. Stephanie Jobe, board member from the Petite Paws Rescue branch in Indiana, describes her disturbing experiences while on a rescue mission at a puppy mill located in Ohio. Additionally, this piece addresses the issue of mill puppies being sold at pet stores across the country. When buying dogs from pet stores, it becomes much more of a challenge to end the puppy mill operation. The mills are a widespread problem, but it is difficult to raise awareness among the public.
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Across America, there are hundreds of thousands of dogs living inside the horrific walls of puppy mills mass-breeding puppies for their entire lives. The mill operators take extremely poor care of the animals, rarely providing healthcare and adequate food, water, and shelter. The dogs are abused and neglected until, hopefully, they are rescued from the mill. Stephanie Jobe, board member from the Petite Paws Rescue branch in Indiana, describes her disturbing experiences while on a rescue mission at a puppy mill located in Ohio. Additionally, this piece addresses the issue of mill puppies being sold at pet stores across the country. When buying dogs from pet stores, it becomes much more of a challenge to end the puppy mill operation. The mills are a widespread problem, but it is difficult to raise awareness among the public.
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Shayla Torres
Posted on September 01, 2012 at 01:24 AM | Permalink
Anti-Puppy Mill !
First off I am an animal LOVER! I absolutely adore them. I couldn’t imagine harming my Chihuahua-Maltese Tiny Rose. She’s like my child. Therefore, the opening of this piece describing one of the neglected dogs in a cage hit me. It had me sick to my stomach. How can people be so careless and selfish? Isn’t there a law about hoarding animals, because it seems to me like there are an excessive amount of animals in those mill?. This piece already has me seeing red. When I first heard it I was taken by surprise. Ariel sounded so professional that I even forgot I was listening to a youth’s piece. She spoke eloquently, with professionalism. I felt like I was listening to a broadcaster on WHYY’s National Public Radio. Her interview with Stephanie Jobe, board member from the Petite Paws Rescue branch in Indiana, gave the piece hard hitting facts to support the their anti-puppy mill premise. Jobe distinguished the difference between a respectable breeder and an irresponsible puppy mill. I use irresponsible because they: confide animals in cages for practically their whole life, ignorantly preform surgical procedures without precautions, and inhumanely dispose of them when they no longer have a use for them. Hopefully, the ASPCA, or another organization will one day formulate some sort of specific/strict regulations that outline how the owners are to care for the animals. We have to be the defenseless animals voice and do what’s right!