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Search results for "puppy mill" ...
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Saving Grace: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills
The book exposes the epidemic of puppy mills in the U.S. It documents large-volume commercial kennels where ill and often injured dogs are caged in squalor and forced to bear puppies until they are worn out.
Tags: animal abuse; puppy mill; dogs
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Puppy Pipeline
The Post tracked a puppy mill pipeline stretching from the Ozarks to South Florida, one that brought thousands of sometimes-sick puppies from mass-operations to local pet stores. At least 2,500 puppies were delivered to Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties from out-of-states breeders in an 11-month period. Roughly one in three of those came from breeders or distributors cited for problems by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees wholesale dog breeding. Citations varied from keeping animals in too-small and rusting cages with exposed nails or wires, to caked feces, to infestations of roaches and other insects that covered the walls and ceilings of kennels. In dozens of cases, kennel owners averted USDA inspection entirely.
Tags: puppy mill; puppies; USDA; dog breeder; breeding; Department of Agriculture; animal mistreatment
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Puppy Heartbreak
The website for South-Flordia's Wizard of Claws was known for selling dogs to celebrities along with many other customers, claiming its dogs to be of the best quality. But the dogs people received were very sick and unhealthy, some even dying. Some of the dogs were traced back to the "puppy mills" of the Midwest, where animals are poorly bred under even worse conditions
Tags: Wizard of Claws; puppy mill; pet store; dog; puppy; animal cruelty; breed
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Unfit for Sale: NJ's Puppy Pipeline
In a three part series, News 12 investigates how dogs 'unfit for sale' are winding up in New Jersey pet stores. Many of these stores were selling illegal dogs from unlicensed brokers, most of them raised in 'puppy mills' in Pennsylvania. It was also found that only two agents from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Dog Law are available to inspect more than 250 licensed kennels in just one county. One official accuses the bureau of 'protecting animal cruelty'.
Tags: animal cruelty; pet stores; illegal dogs; puppy mill; unlicensed brokers; breeding
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Animal Farm
The Columbia Missourian investigates puppy mills in the state of Missouri. Two-thirds of the nation's puppies are born in Missouri, however, regulation of the state's puppy mills is the weakest in the country. All other states are regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture. Puppy mills in Missouri, on the other hand, are regulated by Animal Care Facilities Program, a locally opperated agency. The ACFP was created because Missouri has so many puppy mills that the USDA had difficulties regulating them all.
Tags: puppy mills; Missouri; USDA; United States Department of Agriculture; Animal Care Facilities Program
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported how thousands of puppies were being poorly bred and raised in dangerously unhealthy conditions in Pennsylvania, which has become the "puppy mill capital of the East Coast." The investigation finds that sick dogs from Pennsylvania are showing up all across the country. Many buyers get puppies that die within days. (December 10 & 31, 1995)
Tags: Stark Puppy Mills Dogs Pets Fraud American Kennel Club AKC 30 pgs.
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KFOR-TV (Oklahoma City) investigates the puppy-mill business in the state of Oklahoma and the lack of state laws to protect animal rights, Dec. 10 - 13, 1990.
Tags: TAPE
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The Detroit News investigates the American Kennel Club's toleration of breeding abuses at "puppy mills;" dog shows are tainted by corruption; mixed breeds masquerade as purebreds, March 4 - 6, 1990.
Tags: MI Gordon
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How Sick is That Doggy in the Window?
Los Angeles Times Magazine examines the business of breeding, raising and selling animals to pet stores; documents abuses in "puppy mills" and the growing practice of selling unhealthy, infectious animals to unsuspecting owners, Dec. 3, 1989.
Tags: Puppy mills Yorkin
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Puppy Mills Investigation
KCRA-TV (Sacramento) airs a four-part series detailing the abuse and neglect of dogs in the "puppy mills" of the Midwest; the breeding dogs were kept in inhumane, filthy cages and received inadequate food, water, and exercise.