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I cant believe how far this has gone! I had no idea that I was going to end up on TV a couple days ago when we were in Olympia. For the record, that camera made me look fat. I really do have a neck and I know what they mean now about tv making you gain 10 pounds. I think it made me gain like 40 pounds though

So Olympia was really fun, I was scared to death and I will admit it. I had no idea that Komo was going to be there. Really though, I am glad they were there and glad that everyone got to hear about what I thought. I dont know if they showed the pictures on TV that Skagit County Animal Control Officer Emily Diaz brought or not. They were brutal to be honest. But they needed to be shown. People need to know what these puppy mills do to the poor dogs.

I think that puppy mill owners treat dogs as if they were property and not as if they were alive and certainly do not give them the dignity that they deserve. I think its safe to say that myself and my family have no problem with breeding your dogs. Its only the inhumane part that we dont like. None of us believe that one person can take care of 60 dogs by themselves either. At least not properly the way they should be.

There were 4 people (I think) there that opposed the bill. One of them is Bob, He owns a parrot shop at 806 Yelm Av. E in Yelm, WA. Bob is the gentleman in the video that is on the left in a yellow shirt. We walked out of the room at the same time, I saw Bob and said "I guess we are on opposite sides of the fence". He disagreed and stated that if this bill goes through "It will cause puppy mills to go underground". I still dont understand that and I have been thinking about it for 2 days now. After a 30 second conversation in the hallway, I excused myself and headed for the bathroom.

Unfortunately had to leave Terrah and my Cousin in the hallway while I used the restroom. Apparently some words were exchanged with the ladies that opposed the bill. When I came out of the bathroom it seemed as if tempers had flared a little while i was gone. My dad was there also, He is a mean bastard when he wants to be so i was not overly worried about Terrah and Shannon.

Here is a link to the entire video, its full length. Skip to bypass the other bills.
http://tvw.org/media/mediaplayer.cfm...7288189&bhcp=1

read what stupid things breeders say "you can take easy care of 60 dogs"

You can see the lady talk that says its easy to take good care of 60 dogs. Gimme a break. Another thing, the ones that opposed this bill did not really did not seem to be put togethar all that well. I may be picking a fight, but oh well. The bill is not aimed at legitimate breeders. As a matter of fact, I have seen a number of legite breeders that say this bill sounds very good to them. I think what these people dont understand is that not every county has good laws when it comes to the amount of dogs a person can own. My county has NO laws about it. We need a law that can cover all of our state like an umbrella.

Our programmer finished the database, We now have a program that will enable someone to click a box and have the law for that county displayed. They can even compare 2 laws side by side. It is setup for the entire Country, but we have to manually add the data. So we will start with Washington state. Look for that to go live in the next few days. It is on the top of my list.

Reminder, tomorrow is the day in Olympia.

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A Auction for Advertising to raise some money for SPOT

Next month we will pick another shelter to raise money for. Terrah wanted to start with SPOT, so SPOT it is. We decided that a great way for us to donate to the shelter would be by auctioning off the top right corner of puppyjustice.com for 30 days. Anyone can bid, even if you just wanna have a banner that says Happy Anniversary to someone. Or if you are a business and want some advertising. The money will need to be donated straight to spot after the auction is over. Bidding for the banner spot starts at $5.00, pretty cheap Follow the link below to get the details

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There is another fundraiser coming up and a very nice lady by the name of KC is putting it on. I will have something better put togethar on that and sent out as soon as I can.