[gemy]

I am happy that you were able to rescue your dog, and I do hope that you support the rescue that you got the dog from. After all they must operate on donations from the public.

But the public feeds the demand for these puppy mill and or commercial breeders' practices.

No dogs should be brought up and live in the conditions that was shown on Oprah's show, and as we have seen elsewhere through vids on you tube.

Have you looked at the laws, and what they the Department of Agriculture denotes as humane living conditions for these dogs? They are thought of as livestock. And that is part and will always be part of the problem. Until we can as a public huge voice change it.

The regulations do not include health testing for breed specific problems, the regulations do not include puppy socialization and stimulation, most especially to a home environment. For as commercial breeders they have no home environment with-in which to socialize the pups to.