More Than 200 Dogs Rescued From Ind. Puppy Mill
Confiscated Dogs On The Way To Shelters
240 Puppy Mill Dogs Siezed
June 2, 2009
On June 2, 2009 in New Albany, Indiana more than half of the 240 dogs confiscated from a southern Indiana puppy mill were on their way to shelters and rescue facilities.
Apparently, the puppy mill was busted when animal control officers made undercover purchases of dogs and were told they must pay cash and couldn't get a receipt.
Video of this Indiana puppy mill seizure can be seen at the following links:
Purebred Rescue Organization Gives National Support
Puppy mill - over 1,000 dogs seized
Parkersburg, WV
Puppy Mill Seizure
Incident Date: Saturday, Aug 23, 2008
County: Wood
More than 1,000 puppies have a new lease on life following their discovery Saturday in a large puppy mill breeding facility tucked away in the backwoods of West Virginia, just outside of city of Parkersburg.
Best Friends Animal Society is on site working with local Wood County law enforcement officials, the Humane Society of Parkersburg and the Humane Society of the United States, and, late Saturday began rescuing scores of dogs from the Whispering Oaks Kennels.
"The dogs, most of them dachshunds, Chihuahuas, poodles and other small breed dogs, were confined sometimes four or five to a cage measuring just two feet by three feet," Crook said. "Many cages had feces in them. All had poor ventilation. The sheer number of animals was overwhelming, and the odor of urine in 90-plus degree heat was stifling."
Best Friends has been working with the Parkersburg Humane Society since last May, when the agency called for assistance in the case. Best Friends also advised the Wood County prosecutor's office in the case, and recently requested assistance from HSUS and other agencies to help with coordination of the operations at the local emergency shelter.
The fight against puppy mills, mass breeding operations that supply pet stores and fuel internet sales throughout the United States, is a priority initiative for Best Friends, which in the past two years led several other puppy mill busts. Puppy mills produce an estimated four million dogs in the U.S. each year for the pet sales market; and, sadly, an estimated six million homeless dogs and cats are killed in the U.S. each year.
"It's a national travesty that the puppy mill industry is allowed to flood the market every year with so many dogs being killed each year in animal shelters," said Julie Castle, director of community programs at Best Friends.
Best Friends Community Programs group works with local organizations across the United States on a wide variety of animal welfare issues related to pet overpopulation, including puppy mills and management of feral cat populations. The following You Tube video is of the Parkersburg WV puppy mill bust.
Volunteers from Purebred Rescue Organization are on the national HSUS emergency call list to volunteer their time and effort to get the seized dogs into custody and to care for them until they are situated into the care of various humane organizations across the country.
