Sentences with phrase «puppy mill operation»

The HSUS, at the request of the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department, led a rescue of more than 100 dogs from a puppy mill operation in Carriere, Miss..

If you suspect or see a puppy mill operation use OGP's Tiny Rescue hotline directory and call a hotline for assistance!

Ninety dogs have a new lease on life after the New Jersey SPCA, The HSUS, Cumberland County SPCA and Gloucester County Animal Control / Animal Shelter removed them from a puppy mill operation in Upper Pittsgrove Township.

Order our puppy mill reward posters and display them wherever you suspect a puppy mill operation.

So, what do we do with information on a puppy mill operation?

She is a senior Yorkie who was recently rescued from a puppy mill operation.

Recently, the HSUS rescued more than 100 dogs from a puppy mill operation in Carriere, MS, from the request of the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department.

In her In her Master's degree capstone presentation on behavior modification for dogs rescued from fighting backgrounds, Dr. Black said she found experts considered ex-fighting dogs to be similar to dogs from puppy mill operations.

By adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue as promised, President and Mrs. Obama could have signaled a need for change in the regulation of puppy mill operations that churn out puppies like manufactured goods in deplorable conditions.Â

Although Maryland state law already prohibits the sale of dogs and cats bred by illegal «puppy mills,» it does not ban the retail sale of animals bred at large - scale commercial breeding facilities which, many will argue, are merely federally inspected, legal puppy mill operations.

A six - month search of public animal transport records in multiple states has revealed that more than 95 percent of the retail chain's stores are supporting puppy mills by purchasing their dogs from large - scale dog brokers and / or directly from puppy mill operations.

Because most puppy mill operations are seedy, their owner often try to wow you with brick - a-rack shelves of trophies and long A.K.A. pedigrees on their dogs.

Thankfully, many major U.S. cities have seen how cruel these puppy mill operations are and have enacted city - wide bans on the sale of puppy mill dogs in pet stores, including «San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.»

We have to do what we can to stop people from buying pets from pet stores and supporting horrific puppy mill operations.

Broward County continued its march toward dog - and - cat reduction, pushing forward three new pet - related laws aimed at curtailing puppy mill operations, increasing pet registration and getting more pets sterilized.

The fugitive, Janet Barreto, is allegedly linked to multiple puppy mill operations and the homicide death of a toddler.

Law enforcement agencies across the country call upon us to assist with the invesigation and prosecution of every type of animal abuse — from individual situations of neglect and abuse, to cockfighting or dogfighting operations, to abusive, illegal puppy mill operations and to large - scale animal cruelty situations such as animal hoarding.

** 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.

A significant majority of puppy mill operations now registered are from Holmes County, which identifies as Ohio's Amish County mecca, according to state records.

Puppy mills operations are easily hidden among agriculture buildings.

Stories of squalid living conditions in some puppy mill operations have heightened public awareness of the problem, Baker said, but too often a few cans of paint substitute for substantive changes in animal care.

This argument shows a lack of knowledge about how puppy mill operations work.

This is covered in this current issue by Ruth Steinberger, and was the bill that would place minimum basic regulations on puppy mill operations or those producing over 35 dogs per year.

Not exact matches

Much like a law passed by the village of Mamaroneck in 2016, the bill, introduced to state lawmakers by Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Democrat, on Feb. 15, would ban retail pet stores from buying their pets at for - profit breeders with the hope of curtailing the operation of «puppy mills,» mass breeders with a reputation of over-breeding and treating pets inhumanely.

Puppy mills are massive breeding operations where the bottom line, not animal welfare, is the priority.

Because the language in SQ777 would allow puppy mill and cockfighting breeders to define themselves as «farmers,» there is little state and local governments could do to enact safeguards against such practices, even though Oklahomans have been clear they don't want such operations in our state.

Unfortunately, animal abuse runs rampant in society, found everywhere from puppy mills and backyard slaughter operations to factory farms and laboratories.

It may sadden you to know that your new canine companion more than likely comes from a puppy mill, which the ASPCA defines as «a large - scale commercial dog breeding operation that places profit over the well - being of its dogs — who are often severely neglected — and acts without regard to responsible breeding practices».

HSUS defines a puppy mill as «a dog breeding operation, which offers dogs for monetary compensation or remuneration, in which the physical, psychological and / or behavioral needs of the dogs are not being fulfilled due to inadequate housing, shelter, staffing, nutrition, socialization, sanitation, exercise, veterinary care and / or inappropriate breeding.»

I respectfully request that you do not allow this «fast - tracked» bill initiated by special interest groups to circumvent the will of voters who overwhelmingly support pet stores like Mutts & Co. and Pet Valu who make an enduring commitment to end the «puppy mill to pet store» supply chain in their business operations.»

A lack of mandatory animal welfare standards for dog breeders and failure to clamp down on unscrupulous breeders * make it possible for puppy mills and backyard breeders to continue their operations unhindered.

Puppy mills are dog breeding operations which provide substandard care at best.

I've written previously on puppy mills and if you don't know what these operations entail, I strongly suggest you do a bit of research before considering «purchasing» a new pet.

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A puppy mill is usually run to supplement farm income, or is just a volume money making operation with little regard to the health of the dogs.

A steady supply of pups — say, a litter a month — suggests a quantity operation (puppy mill), not a quality one.

First, voters passed Proposition B — aimed at more closely regulating the sort of big dog breeding operations that had earned Missouri the nickname of the puppy mill state.

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

A new campaign launched by media agency Rokkan and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is hoping to educate society that most puppies found at pet stores, or purchased online, are produced in so - called puppy mills and that the reality of the conditions found at these breeding operations is far from dog treats, sunshine and rainbows.

I know there are a lot of people who mistreat and neglect animals but did not know huge puppy mills were in operation here.

The sale of puppies is a big market in countries like the US, and that has driven some people to establish intensive puppy breeding operations (puppy mills) to quickly supply the increasing demand in specific dog breeds.

A puppy mill is a large - scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well - being of the dogs.

It was ARC's work in Gibson County during a 2014 puppy mill raid, Operation Home for the Holidays, that caught the eye of the filmmakers and puppy mills in Tennessee are heavily featured in the documentary.

It is estimated that over 90 percent of pets sold in pet stores and through online sales come from commercial, mass breeding operations known as mills, including puppy, kitten, bird and rabbit mills.

In November 2014, while shutting down a Middle Tennessee puppy mill in a rescue dubbed Operation Home for the Holidays, Animal Rescue Corps (ARC) joined up with filmmakers Michael Samstag and Josh Gildre, of Rescue Docs Media.

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.

Puppy mills are lifelong torture chambers — large - scale commercial facilities, regulated by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) under the guise of «wholesale» operations.

Brandy is safe, but hundreds of thousands of dogs like her are still confined in small cages in puppy mills — mass breeding operations that house dogs in terrible conditions, solely to produce puppies for profit.

I have worked in puppy mill rescue and would love to see an end to these operations.

To hide their size, puppy mills are now selling puppies through multiple sites, creating the image of a small breeder selling only one or two breeds, when they're actually a large - scale operation.