Sentences with phrase «puppy mill case»

Hendry County Sheriff's spokesperson, Susan Harrelle, says authorities have been conducting undercover work for quite some time on the Clewiston puppy mill case.

Whether it be a puppy mill case, a cruelty case, dogs from devastation like the recent hurricane dogs or veterinary partners who have great dogs abandoned in their clinic when the owner dies.

Behaviors associated with animals from hoarding and puppy mill cases can provide strong evidence of chronic confinement and neglect and strengthen animal cruelty prosecutions.

When we unexpectedly get two hoarder cases 126 rabbits and puppy mill cases 78 dogs in a short period of time between May and November 2017, we need to make adjustments to adoption donation fees (example: Bulldogs being more than the usual fees) to pay for extra staffing (80 hours), medications, food, healthcare, veterinarians and medicine.

Not exact matches

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

In some cases neglect or cruelty is the result of people using animals as tools for commercial profit, such as in the cases of puppy mills, dog fighting, cock fighting and illegal slaughterhouses.

Puppies who come from these mills may end up with minor or in many cases, severe injuries.

Puppy mills create a surplus of popular dogs and then either sell them for testing or euthanize them when they are too old to adopt out unless they can serve as a breeding dog in which case they will live in a cage with little human contact and never know the feel of grass under their feet.

Like many puppy mill puppies, Pippa has some anxiety issues from being taken from her mother too soon and a mild case of epilepsy.

Recently, the SPCA of Texas discovered yet another horrific case of puppy mill abuse in Canton, Texas.

As a new rescue, you likely won't be involved in any cases where masses of dogs are coming to you from a puppy mill bust, a hoarding case, or a severe neglect case.

While servicing as the ASPCA's senior vice president of ACG, Mr. Bershadker launched the organization's Field Investigations & Response team to provide skilled support during large - scale puppy mill seizures, dog fighting raids, animal hoarding cases and natural disasters.

A group of dogs comes into the local shelter from a hoarding case or a puppy mill.

Our emergency rescue team collaborates with local law enforcement agencies on large - scale animal cruelty investigations, involving everything from hoarding cases to puppy mills and dogfighting operations.

Authorities call this case a hoarding situation though it had the appearance of a puppy mill — most of the dogs were small purebreds.

«ALDF offered invaluable assistance in determining where Pennsylvania fits in the landscape of animal law and permitted us to approach the Oxford [puppy mill] case with a full understanding of the dimensions of the problem of animal hoarding.»

In many cases, the dogs used for breeding in puppy mills are kept in cramped cages and forced to produce litter after litter for as long as they live.

In all cases, time, patience and love are key ingredients to developing the very special bond that you will experience when adopting a puppy mill survivor.

«Just being able to enforce it was a huge, huge benefit to the animal and I only had to prosecute about 41 cases, and through those deterrent efforts and through shutting down facilities through the use of the law and our new authority, by the time I left there were only 1,400 puppy mills left in the state.

West already faces 117 animal - related criminal charges in a separate case for the suspected puppy mill.

Whenever we've had a chance to improve the lives of pets in our community, we've stepped forward to help: taking in 40 extra and unplanned cats in a hoarding case, rescuing 90 dogs in a puppy mill bust, dealing with influx of kitties during kitten season and giving older cats infected with URI the medicine and TLC they need to recover.

MCSO is treating the case as an animal cruelty / puppy mill situation, although the owners deny that they were breeding and selling the dogs.

This rescue was different for the folks at HUA — no sick and terrified puppy mill dogs, no dogs abandoned or dumped, or no cases of abuse or neglect.

I AM sitting here with tears and I do know of puppy mills, but to see this video... I was riveted... to see how horrible these dogs were treated — or not treated in some of their cases where the dogs are deceased, and to know that this is just one of so many puppy mill breeders, is just shocking.

In natural disasters, puppy mill busts, animal fighting interventions, and hoarding cases, law enforcement and emergency management agencies often rely on specially - trained response teams to rescue animals and mitigate the associated risks to humans.

Kaneshiro said cases like the Waimanalo puppy mill that Hawaii News Now first reported in February of 2011 could be found much sooner or avoided if the new regulations are approved by lawmakers.

In a case noted by the Nevada Legislature, the economic impact of shutting down just one puppy mill cost one community over $ 330,000.

Whether we are partnering to save animals from a puppy mill, cruelty case or animal shelter, we can count on SNAP and their surgeons and technicians to provide high quality care.

The ASPCA's Behavioral Rehabilitation Center at St. Hubert's, for instance, opened in 2013 and was described as «the first - ever facility dedicated strictly to providing behavioral rehabilitation to canine victims of cruelty, such as those confiscated from puppy mills and hoarding cases.»

They address overpopulation and puppy mills, protect horses and equines, confront wildlife abuses, stamp out cruelty and fighting, investigate cruelty cases, campaign to reform industries.

Mutts tend to be healthier, live longer and are less given to weird psychological problems than dogs that have been inbred to achieve some special appearance or, as in the case of puppy mills, to generate a quick profit.

Which was often the case since most came in from puppy mills and backyard breeders.

In the case of puppy mills the greatest efforts have gone into exposing the horrors of factory farming pets, with the intent of generating public support for legislative measures that will improve conditions in high - volume breeding operations.

In many cases, people handle the dogs responsibly before you take them home, however, there are puppy mills and brokers that focus purely on the business of making money and do not follow safe practices or treat dogs properly.

That has been the case with rescued fighting dogs, puppy mill dogs, and those raised as meat.

• May have prevented the recent Allegan County puppy mill / hoarding case, involving more than 350 dogs.

Stop puppy mills from coming to Michigan: While Michigan is not known as a big «puppy mill» state, with only four USDA - licensed commercial breeders and 21 county - licensed breeders who report owning more than 50 dogs, the Allegan County case underscores the fact that puppy mills exist here, and that current laws are insufficient to manage them.

Not only do all large CBEs fit the dictionary of puppy mill, but a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»

The RedRover Responders volunteer corps are the backbone of our efforts to provide lifesaving care and sheltering for animal victims of natural disasters, puppy mills, hoarding, in addition to other cases of cruelty and neglect.

We can't afford to bring dogs to the groomers except in the most extreme cases, such as dogs rescued from puppy mills or some pounds, and boy do those dogs look happy and proud after their filthy, matted coats are shaved down!

Good news for consumers and dogs: an Illinois court has ruled that a lawsuit alleging that a Chicago - area pet store chain that sold sick puppy mill puppies can proceed to trial, rejecting the pet store's second attempt to have the case dismissed.

The Hawaiian Humane Society finally won a big «puppy mill» case, more or less, in December 2011, against a company called Bradley International Inc..

Handling all of the animals involved in large - scale neglect cases (hoarding, puppy mills and farm neglect) requires considerable effort and expense — all animal victims must be examined, treated, catalogued as evidence and sheltered during the pendency of a court case.

«The compassion we extend to these abandoned animals is no less important than our work ending puppy mills, animal fighting, and other large scale cases of animal neglect and cruelty».

Curt Rogers, 55, a Cambridge resident who organized support for the ban, pointed to a recent case where dozens of Great Danes were rescued from squalid conditions in a puppy mill inside a New Hampshire mansion as an example of inhumane breeding close to home.

There have also been several cases where puppy mills have employed people and their homes, and then put out a Craigslist listing.

Who can help a community take care of animals when they're rescued from puppy mills or hoarding cases?

There have been several cases where rescue organizations were found to be completely bogus and just fronts for puppy mills.

** Emergency Placement Partners are part of HSUS's national network that aims to save animals from abuse by assisting with large - scale abuse cases such as hoarding situations, animal fighting, or puppy mill operations.

«In many cases, puppy mills house animals in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions without adequate food, water, socialization or veterinary care.»