So sad, Yorkie puppy mill busted
 

This was just on my local news, a puppy mill and Pahrump Nevada was just busted, most of the dogs were Yorkies :( This is the link to the news station, they have video footage on their main page. If anyone knows how to post a link to the video I'd really appreciate it. Please remember all those babies today in your Thanksgiving prayers, thanks.

heres the link http://www.klas-tv.com/

That is sad and disgusting! Those poor babies had maggots on them. What a horrible life. :(

Those poor babies...
 

Her telling about them going round and round just broke my heart!! They're so cute, I'm sure they'll find homes for all of them. Anyone on here from Nevada that needs a baby?? She said 33 left...

This is very sad but an extremely hard reality . I truly wish that one day , all puppymills will be put out for good .

So sad I dont know how anyone could treat precious yorkies like that. They had maggots on them how gross is that!

puppymill
 

TOPS she will only get 1000 fine? That is SCREWED up! Her butt should go to jail! She should live without a bath, her hair ratted up, and covered in maggots in a little cage! This country needs to be worse on puppymills than this!

Oh man that place looked so gross...
 

That person should be made to live the same way she made those poor dogs live...

How sad. Did you see that poor dog that was going around in a circle? It was after the lady told the circle story. If I lived near there, I would RUN to get one!! Poor babies...

I heard that for just ONE count of animal cruelty you could get a 1000 dollar fine, but SIXTY something?!?!!? She better get more, that was horrible! They were all SOOOO precious! I cannot believe things like this happen. It was so sweet to hear that she had made every single one of them a sweater, but heartbreaking to hear they didn't even know how to walk... Thanks for sharing this video, stuff like this shouldn't happen and people need to know that it is.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know I'm so thankful they were all rescued :)

...I can't help it, I want one now! lol

If you want to make your voice heard in this case, please write a letter or make a phone call:

Nye County District Attorney
250 North Highway 160, Pahrump, NV
89048
(775) 751-7080

:mad: i hope all those poor puppies find loving homes. if i lived in nv. i would adopt one. poor babies. it just makes me ill. cathy and yoshi

Karen, is right. If this makes you mad let your voices be HEARD! :thumbup:

I AGREE ! I almost got sick hearing she would only get that -

That EVIL B***h has a special place waiting for her - people like that will get what they deserve one day - I have to believe that...what goes around comes around

what a joy for those babies to be saved - We need MORE busts like that in this country - no dog should EVER have to live in that kind of hell.

sorry for the bad words - I get really REALLY upset at those conditions and should have edited my words :( by the time I realized it the time ran out - I'll say this - my typed words are not even close to the ones I had in my head

This is an update on rescued Yorkies. They were all adopted :)

Eyewitness News brought you the story of 60 puppies that were victims of a puppy mill owner in Pahrump. They were kept in horrible conditions and had numberous problems.

As of Friday afternoon, the Southern Nye County Friends of Animals tells us all the dogs have been adopted.

(Nov. 23) -- Nye County Animal Control has shutdown a puppy mill, and now the owner is facing 68 counts of animal cruelty. Eyewitness News has the exclusive story.

The conditions inside the Pahrump home were so deplorable; it is amazing that these dogs survived. Vie Keller with the Southern Nye County Friends of Animals says of a Yorkie, "I named him Caesar because when I met him he had the heart of a Caesar. He was meant to live."

It is a miracle that this little Yorkie, or the 64 others now at the Southern Nye County Friends of Animals, are alive. Vie Keller says, "When we discovered him, his leg was hanging by just a narrow thread. And it was full of maggots and if you held him, the maggots would fall on the floor."

His hair was so matted that his rescuers believe he chewed his leg to the bone. It had to be amputated. Vie Keller says, "He'd come hobbling up with that leg to greet you."

It is unbelievable to think that it was the same Yorkie who was living in deplorable conditions at a Pahrump home for years. In all, 68 dogs, most of them Yorkies and Silkys, were stacked through out the house in cat-size cages. They were living in their feces with matted hair, ear and eye infections, and only let out to breed.

Debbie Pemberton with Nye County Animal Control says, "We've seen neglect and cruelty cases before, but this rates pretty high on our scale."

The dogs' owner, 57-year-old Tana Nass, was cited for 68 counts of animal cruelty and was evicted from the home. Her two grandchildren were removed from her care.

It took 8 hours and a HazMat team to remove the dogs to their new home at the shelter. One of the board members there has gone home each night and knitted a sweater for each of the Yorkies. That's because when they were finally groomed, they were cold from losing all their hair.

The owner of the puppy mill, Tana Nass, faces a $1,000 fine, 48 hours of community service and whatever else the judge finds necessary. Nass also faces welfare and check fraud charges.

Thank you for posting an update. That was so sad about the little yorkie's leg! :(