Puppy Mills are EVERYWHERE!
 

This one was in MY state of Alabama..up north by the Huntsville area. 122 dogs! "Mostly Yorkies and Pomeranians" .. The attitudes and words of those "helping" frustrate me so much! No charges even though these babies were OUTSIDE, WET, and FREEZING! They had ice in their hair for heaven's sake!!! The Animal Control officer said this lady "got in over her head" blah blah blah. GRRRR

Twenty-five of these babies are pregnant :(

Investigators rescue 122 dogs from alleged Colbert County puppy mill - Huntsville News | WAAYTV.com and ABC 31: News

Oh my goodness those poor babies :(

I know. I just want to go cuddle and spoil all of them. I just dont understand how people think..or rather how they DON'T care. Just makes you want to do un-Christian things for sure.

That is so sickening it just makes me cry.

I think the owner needs to be put outside in a cage in freezing weather for a while.

Wow hope they all find loving forever homes! It's a shame that the shelter is not taking in any strays since they're all filled...so what happens to them? It's so cold out there.:(

Very interesting reading the comments under the article.

I'm not so sure that this applies to the place/lady in question here, but...

One has to give a little slack on issues like this. I can visualize myself in a position like that, having a "full house" and desperately wanting to help the other animals which needed a home. She may have been forced to put males n females together (causing the pregnancies). Some people just can't say no when it comes to an animal in need.

So, I'd say, bless their Hearts, but, not their judgment.

Yes...it looks like there are people who are interested in adopting the dogs out. I wonder how many are going to be adoptable?? 122 dogs is A LOT of pups to adopt out. I hope that some rescues step up and offer to take some of the dogs. Maybe a sanctuary will step up and offer to take the harder cases that need some work before adopting.

How sad is it that people get away with the cruel treatment of animals?!? OK....so maybe you get in over your head with 20, 30, or 40 of them....but 122 of them????

If the person was a hoarder, I'd have more sympathy for them...because at least their heart could have been in the right place...but a puppy miller is just in it for the money. If I had 122 dogs that were outside freezing, I'd bring them in my house. I wouldn't leave them to die outside.

I don't understand why there aren't tougher laws against these people. It really irritates me that the USDA is coming down on the smaller breeders, while it gives these big breeders a free pass. Why not sink their money and efforts in combating the puppy mill problem instead of wasting their time messing with the smaller breeders. Unfortunately, since there are such minimal repercussions for such treatment of animals, there's not much deterrent to stop people from abusing these animals.....

It had to take a very mentally ill person to do this...or someone w/no heart...basically your average puppy miller!

Yeah, everybody wants a Yorkie! I really hope they'll ALL be spayed & neutered b4 getting adopted out & the new homes screened carefully.

Nope, sorry. No slack, no compassion, no forgiveness for something like this! For goodness sake's, some were dead, frozen dead! These vile people use these precious pups w/souls to produce puppies so they can line their wallets & this is how they treat their bread winners??? Forced? IDT so!:thumbdown:mad::thumbdown This post is not directed @ u, I am so mad @ people like this, no wait, they're not human beings...

Having 122 dogs in wire cages outside is not a matter of "a full house". It is a matter of greed and non-caring for a living being. This was a puppy mill. It was meant to cause pregnancies.

Did you read the article?

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They are only going to let the pregnant pups go to Rescues. They have a mandatory spay/neuter policy.

Here is there facebook page with the notice/info so far:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/colbertcountyshelter

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: You got this exactly right. This is not a person who took in too many, it is a greedy puppy producing factory. So sickening I'm still in tears.

Super Sad!! Happy to know that the surviving dogs are now in a good place to be adopted out to loving homes. One Mill down!!!!

Authorities were tipped to a 2nd location of this puppy mill. NINETY more dogs...same ...even worse off actually..conditions as the first 112. Newborns dropping out as the pups were being CUT out of the cages..frozen..I won't go on.

PLEASE notify all the rescues. Please point ladyjane and others to this thread and info. This is 200 dogs...Poms and mostly Yorkies. They need fosters badly.

oh my goodness

Thank you for letting us know, what a relief that the mommas & pups will be safe in rescues.

2nd location...does that mean it belongs to same person? PM'ed Linda for you. OMG the visual of frozen puppies I don't want to see.:(

Oh how awful this makes me sick about these puppy mills.We were in Red Bay,Alabama for awhile and took a ride to Fulton,Mississippi.We needed to get groceries at the Walmart there and here these weird dirty filthy people had some puppies for sale.The little yorkie puppy was only six weeks old.I made my husband drive up to their vehicle to see what was in the crates and cages.They had Pom puppies,a Maltese puppy and a yorkie puppy.There were others too and the yorkie looked sick.I chewed them out about selling puppies too young and then I went in Walmart to let them know but the worker told me they were on the edge of the Walmart parking lot.I told them about puppy mills and this needed attention right now.I wonder if these idiots were from Huntsville selling their pups in Ms.Anyways I wished more people would be more aware of this stuff.Also we should not shop at Petland they buy puppies from puppy mills.Well I better stop venting it makes me sick about these puppy mills. Susan

We are aware of this situation but just do not have any foster homes in that area that could help. We have forwarded to other groups; but I am sure those we contacted already are aware.

Just so disgusting. :( As to the comment about the lady being in over her head, I am so sick of ACs making such statements. We took yorkies in from a very similar situation in 2007 and they said the exact same thing. The pups were a mess. The links are still up....just read what they said about how much the lady loved her pups. :( My Olivia and Adina came from that mess.

237 dogs removed from home of Corpus Christi woman | abc13.com

I would like to look into being a foster, but I don't know who to talk to in Alabama. I need to research this weekend.

Puppy Mills
 

It is very sad for the poor dogs that suffered.

If by chance YH gets involved you know my number.

Thanks, Joyce! I think it would be difficult since they are so far away