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Washington puppy-mill dogs arrived in Portland today (with video)
by Jacques Von Lunen , Special to The Oregonian
Saturday May 30, 2009, 7:22 PM
About 100 dogs from a puppy mill in Washington arrived at the Oregon Humane Society today.
These miniature American Eskimo dogs are part of the 371 dogs seized Wednesday at a Kennewick, Wash., puppy mill owned by Ella Stewart, 66. Benton County sheriff’s officials and local animal rescue volunteers seized the dogs from Stewart’s home and housed them at the Benton County fairgrounds.
OHS was contacted by representatives of the Humane Society of the United States and offered to take 100 of the dogs.
Three vans left Portland this morning to pick up the dogs. Temperatures were high today in Kennewick, about 93 degrees, so the team tried to get the dogs to the Portland shelter as quickly as possible. OHS animal care manager Autumn White was on site and said that about half the dogs are in bad shape with urine burns and coats matted with fecal matter. OHS had volunteer groomers on standby for Sunday and Monday to help these animals.
– Jacques Von Lunen; pets@jvonlunen.com
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Puppy mill dogs get new homes
MONROE, Wash. – Hugs from adoptive families begin to melt months of fear. Dozens of dogs taken from a raid on a Gold Bar puppy mill in January on Sunday took another trip – to new homes.
“We just were heartbroken, about how these animals were kept, and we want to make a change in their lives,” said Al Moser.
The dogs were given names and numbers. more than 400 people offered to adopt just 68 dogs.
The chosen families lined up at Evergreen State Fairgrounds, adoption fees in hand, to bring home a new priceless member of the family.
“She’s probably going to puppy heaven, the things she dreamed about is where she’s going to live,” said Jay Pruehner, who lives just miles from where the dogs were seized.
But compassion is not confined by boundaries.
“We have people who made it here today from Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, from Vancouver, Wash., from Blaine up on the border and all the way out in Port Angeles as well,” said Hilary Anne Hager, Shelter Activities Coordinator for Everett Animal Services.
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More than 60 dogs seized from a Gold Bar puppy mill went to new homes.
Among the wagging tails, sniffing and smiling was a touch of sadness. foster families, who helped nurse the animals back to health, had to say goodbye.
“It’s hard to give them up for adoption and stuff but he’s going to a great home,” said one “foster mom.”
Each adoptive family walked away with a starter kit of leashes and toys, but they left a promise.
“We’re going to give her a good home,” said Al Moser.
More than a 150 animals were originally siezed from the Gold Bar home. The rest will be available for adoption through the Everett Animal Shelter or other rescues.
The couple accused in the case face six charges for animal cruelty.
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This Pretty Much Sums It Up, Doesn’t It? – The Importance Of Spaying & Neutering Your Pet(s)…
As a nation, we claim to love cats and dogs. Millions of households have pets, and billions of dollars are spent yearly on pet supplies and food. But as a nation, we should take a hard, sobering look at a different annual statistic: the millions of dogs and cats given up to shelters or left to die on the streets. And the numbers tell only half the story.
Every cat or dog who dies as a result of pet overpopulation—whether humanely in a shelter or by injury, disease, or neglect—is an animal who, more often than not, would have made a wonderful companion, if given the chance. Tremendous as the problem of pet overpopulation is, it can be solved if each of us takes just one small step, starting with not allowing our animals to breed. Here’s information about this crisis and why spaying and neutering is the first step to a solution.
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Puppy-mill operators should pay for sick animals
A Skagit County judge should compel the owners of an massive puppy mill operation that was uncovered by investigators to pay for the costs of the hundreds of animals rescued from the operation.
SKAGIT County prosecutors were right to ask a Superior Court judge to force two people charged in a massive puppy-mill operation to post bonds for the animals’ care — and the owners should.
The judge should agree and compel the defendants to help clean up the mess they made.
Cash-strapped animal shelters should not have to bear all the costs of caring for the hundreds of sick and diseased puppies seized during raids last month.
Some 600 dogs were rescued from two homes in Snohomish and Skagit counties and since then, local shelters and animal advocates have scrambled to provide care. About 80 percent of the dogs were pregnant and some have required costly medical treatment. Donations and a community fundraiser have helped, but the costs go beyond puppy chow.
The animal shelter in Skagit County has incurred $30,000 in expenses so far for the 70 dogs in its care.
A mass adopt-a-thon would ease shelter budgets and offer the puppies respite from the hell they’ve been through. Indeed, animal shelters ought to be the starting place for any would-be pet owner. But for now, the puppies remain evidence in a criminal trial. Technically, they are still the property of their owner while the case is adjudicated.
That could be awhile. Meanwhile, expenses mount. Dogs kept in cramped, unsanitary conditions tend to have health and socialization problems that could cost plenty to resolve.
A glimpse of what is faced by the puppies and those who care for them can be see through the eyes of Ruth Brombaugh. The elderly widow answered a classified ad and envisioned the Yorkshire terrier she purchased as a healthy, good companion and one who would alert her to strangers.
Instead, she ended up with nearly $1,200 in veterinary bills for a dog that was deaf, couldn’t bark and had to undergo a cesarean section to deliver two stillborn puppies.
Charging papers show similar complaints date back to the late 1990s. Someone ought to pay. The judge should start with the defendants.
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Shipment Shows Dark Side Of Foreign Puppy Mills
by Carrie Kahn
Animal welfare workers hold two foreign puppy mill survivors that were sold at auction recently in Los Angeles: a miniature Yorkshire terrier and a miniature Maltese.
Debbie Garringer of Claremont, Calif., holds one of the two dogs she won at the auction. Garringer paid $2,000 for this miniature Maltese.
Hundreds of people turned out to bid on 10 purebred puppies at L.A.’s East Valley Animal Shelter. The auction raised more than $20,000 — money that will go to the city’s animal shelters.
NPR.org, December 30, 2008 · Purebred dogs go for top dollar in pet stores around the country, but buyers of cute, cuddly puppies may not know that some come from unregulated breeding mills overseas. So-called puppy-mill dogs are showing up sick and dehydrated at major airports around the country.
In Los Angeles, one recent shipment of dead and ailing puppies from South Korea got the city’s attention. Twenty of the dogs in the shipment seized at Los Angeles International Airport either had died or had to be euthanized after the trip. The 10 survivors were turned over to the city’s shelter.
Five months later, those survivors — five miniature Maltese and five tiny Yorkshire terriers — were ready for adoption. Hundreds of animal lovers, many wrapped in blankets to keep warm, lined up on a chilly morning in front of L.A.’s East Valley Animal Shelter for a chance to bid on the dogs.
Ed Boks, the general manager of L.A. Animal Services, was thrilled at the turnout. City law requires him to hold an auction when more than one person wants an animal.
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Stop Puppy Mills Now!
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