Puppy Mill shut down Another puppy mill was shut down yesterday in Allegan County in Michigan. A woman went to a so called breeder's home and saw hundreds of little puppies all dirty and scraggly after she answered an ad. She did buy one puppy, cleaned the poor thing up and brought it to the vet and then promptly reported it to county officials who raided the home and found 350 puppies in a small kennel that were all in poor shape. The puppies were all taken to several vets in the area who cleaned them up and are then giving them to a no kill shelter for adoption. These little pups were just adorable yet pitiful and brought tears to my eyes. :( The "breeder" will be charged with animal cruelty. I hope they throw the book at her. |
I love to hear when they get shut down that is the best news |
Those poor puppies! |
Puppy Mill Shutdown No, they weren't sent to a "no kill shelter", they were dispersed in several different yorkie rescue groups all across the country. This happened yesterday and the rescues were scrambling to find foster homes for them. |
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According to a local paper, most of the dogs were Shihtzus (sp?). |
GREAT:D Another BYB bites the dust! So glad they were reported. |
Yay!!! That is great news! :) |
I just saw the couple was let out on $5,000 bail. That's ridiculous! |
So sad. I saw that the people had been arrested for this previously. :( |
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This morning they reported on TV that the dogs are at the Allegan Humane Society and will be up for adopted after they are cleaned up and some broken bones set. The couple will face four years in prison and 500 hours of community service. Not enough in my book. |
I posted the news links on this story below This type of situation makes me LIVID, because I can't help but wonder why it took so long for something to be done. This took place inside a small two bedroom house, it does not even sound like there were cages outside. Did they have any neighbors, family, friends, what about people that bought the dogs from them, no one said anything?? I could be wrong but in reading the story it doesn not sound like they were running a true puppy mill type of business selling to pet stores and brokers (or at least not at the end) so someone must have been to their home. What about the county animal control agency, that we pay taxes to support, when did they find out about this, one story says they were working with them to reduce the numbers, for how long ??? !!!! Then the follow up story or some of the comments said they knew for just a week. I feel both of these people have some type of mental illness that made them incapable of controlling a situation that may of started from a desire to sell puppies for money. Think about it, they lived in a small two bedroom house surrounded by the urine and feces of 350 stinking sick dogs, what type of people are capable of living like that other than mentaly sick, animal hoarder type of people. I am not sticking up for them, I am just disgusted that either no one knew about this or if they did they choose to turn a blind eye. Also when it comes to adoption I know I would not be first in line, who knows what type of expensive medical issues you would be facing down the line since they were most likely inbred over and over again. Just a very sad sad situation and I commend the many volunteers that are working tirelessly with these puppies and dogs. Aside from what happens to the couple I sure hope there is an investigation done on how this went on for so long. Rescue of almost 350 dogs in Allegan County: 'I've never even heard of anything like this' | MLive.com Allegan County Animal Shelter adoption form online here; homes sought for 350 dogs rescued from puppy mill | MLive.com Dog owners arrested in Allegan County Animal Shelter puppy mill seizure case | MLive.com |
I found some more stories on this, perhaps some were not kept in the house, it's hard to tell from the stories, but I did read that in 2010 they were visited by Animal Control, and asked to reduce the numbers.... it does not sound like they were visited again. They were also cited in 2005 when they lived in Grand Rapids (different county) for I believe not having a kennel license, but yet not much could be done because GR did not have an ordinance against how many pets one could have in a home! I know there are new animal laws that are trying to get passed in MI, this has made me decide to find out more about them and see how I might be able to get involved. |
Disgusting! Shut them all down and hang the owners! |
Thank you DBlain for posting the links, especially the adoption form :thumbup: |
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I just saw on the news that they already have received 600 adoption applications for the 350 puppies at the Allegan County Humane Society. Their site crashed a couple of times and the out pour of donations and support has be overwhelming. :thumbup: |
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Good! Keep shutting then down. Part of the punishment should be that if found guilty the perps can never own another animal of any kind. |
I just went to a local rescue with a friend this afternoon to pick up her foster puppy. Get this...the puppies were from ANOTHER rescue place in a bordering city and there were dead dogs & dead cats in the house these pups were taken from. And unknowing people surrendered there animals there because the home was listed as a rescue....sick. The pups bellies were swollen with worms, but their ribs and hips are sticking out :(. The local rescue is also expecting some small dogs from the 350+ Allegan dogs saved. Everything I've seen lists them a Shih Tzu but the local rescue says there are a few small breeds including yorkies. |
From what I have seen of the puppy mill industry some back yard breeders find out that they can make more and more "easy" money if they increase their breeding. They do make connections with pet stores and make some sales but they continue to sell to the general public as well. They are not picky. Whoever gives them the money they sell to. Of course things get out of hand due to their greed and they end up with a filthy mess. It seems like the case for this recent puppy mill bust. It was a small house filled with tons of mostly Shih Tzu's. Some were covered in filth. Just awful.:mad: The thing that really got to me about this one was the fact that the owners told the press that the dogs were not sick. I guess filthy meant nothing to them. |
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Update The couple that ran this puppy mill was just sentenced to two months in jail. No fine was mentioned in the news report. |
Disappointing. A slap on the wrist. |
Good! But its just so sad, because now all thouse dogs need to find homes *smh* its sad what we humans do to poor defensless animals |
2 months? So a paid vacation at the taxpayers expense? That's laughable. What about their ability to own pets again? I don't feel like they should be allowed to own any animal for the rest of their lives. |
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