They use emotional rhetoric and pictures
of dirty kennels and sickly dogs to imply that most or all breeders will subject their dogs to abusive lives unless they are regulated.
Not exact matches
And yes, they do adopt a decent number, but they also refuse to adopt a lot more, resigning those dogs to living the rest
of their lives in an outdoor
kennel, often matted and
dirty, even in our harshest Ohio winters, with no quality
of life.
The HSUS named Laymon's breeding facility, Shadow Mountain
Kennel, as one
of the worst licensed puppy mills in the state in its 2010 and 2011 «Missouri's
Dirty Dozen» reports.
Leon Walthall and Peggy Van Huss, Wagging Tails
Kennel, Siloam Springs, Ark. «Strong smell
of rodent urine,» five years
of dirty conditions.
The HSUS reviewed a number
of kennels when gathering support for this initiative, publishing a 27 - page report called «Missouri's
Dirty Dozen.»
I have reports
of dead animals stacked by the
kennels, injured untreated dogs that are wet and
dirty.
The images
of the
dirty, mangy dogs that are kept in tiny, feces - filled
kennels fill our minds.
According to the March 2011 report from the Humane Society
of the United States, «Update Report: Missouri's
Dirty Dozen Most
of the worst puppy mills in Missouri are still licensed», Smith
Kennels of Salem, Missouri is one
of the worst.
He has seen the
kennel owner captured on tape,
dirty, barely articulate, and ignorant
of dog care, temperament, genetic health, or proper nutrition.
If the
kennel yard is full
of debris, if the building is in need
of serious repair, if the food bowls are
dirty and the water bowls scummy, go to the next
kennel on the list.