I found this and am in SHOCK!!!
 

This should be a very good reason NO ONE should purchase puppy store puppies. I know we want to save them but we are only keeping them in business.



PRESS RELEASE-

OKLAHOMA COUNTY PUPPY MILL CLOSED DOWN-DESCRIBED AS A, “HOUSE OF HORRORS”

On July 8, 2006, Safe Haven Humane Society of Midwest City, and Homeward Bound Humane Society of Durant, removed 130 dogs and puppies from an Oklahoma County residence. Owner Betty Foster, in her late 70s, produced puppies at the location for over 30 years.

Small breeds of dogs and their puppies were removed from filthy conditions; water was black, most of the food was moldy, and over 40 carcasses were found in bags on the property. A freshly dead puppy was being consumed by a rat.

‘Puppy mills,’ are a dirty secret throughout Oklahoma, and a secret that is growing. As this filthy industry is regulated in other states, they are expanding here.

Few people know where their pet store dog came from and fewer know where their stolen pet may wind up. Puppy mills are a mountain of shame. When dogs no longer, ‘produce a crop,’ they are discarded in the growing number of dog auctions, or worse.

While the dogs were being removed on Saturday, according to Foster’s granddaughter’s comments, she herself performed caesarian deliveries by, in her own words, “splitting them open.”

Dogs with their midlines sutured together with fishing line were removed from the property. One gray Poodle that had been, ‘split open,’ was found in the trashcan with her intestines out. The birthing area had rolls of fishing line strewn on the floor.

Foster had earlier tried to get rescue leagues to take senior dogs that no longer produced puppies, but on Saturday the dogs she tried to release earlier were gone; rat poison was photographed in many bowls.

The horrors continued: Upon returning to Durant with the dogs, Homeward Bound Shelter Manager Stacy George started the task of cleaning and bathing the dogs. She removed scores of ticks from the area around the eyes of one small Lhasa Apso, however, instead of getting a happy glance, the young dogs’ eyes were gone.

Some dogs have large tumors on their midlines. A terrier had a dead mouse entwined in its’ fur.

Some will have to have surgery from being, “split open,” in butcher style caesarian surgeries.

Many of the dogs removed from Foster’s residence wear tags from recently being sold through auctions; some may be stolen pets. A lack of serious regulation of dog auctions permits stolen pets to go right into the, ‘puppy mill,’ industry.

It is time for Oklahomans to put our foot down on the misery.

· We demand changes in Oklahoma laws to include dog dealer regulations.

Owners of missing or stolen pets with positive identification including photos are encouraged to call:

580-924-5873, 918-367-0111, or 918-367-8999

Thats horrible that lady should go to jail for a long time. How those poor puppies and dogs had to live was awful

The good thing in all that is they shut down that puppy mill. How horrible!!

How terribly horrible!! How could she sleep at night!! Woman with no conscious!! Hopefully she will go to jail for a long time!!:mad:

This is just horrible, how can they allow this ???Makes my Stomach turn ! Anybody working for them ought to be skinned alive !!!

Oh God, I feel sick! Something is seriously missing in people that can do that.

How sad! These places are disgusting!

:( what else can i say.

That is worse than any conditions I ever imagined. I thought just eing caged and living in filth was horrible. These conditions are beyond my imagination.

But how could someone not have known about this. neighbors, friends, family, buyers, anyone.

OMG. I almost got sick reading that - those poor poor poor dogs. NO HUMAN should EVER Get away with that kind of coldblooded abuse of innocent animals - I hope she ROTS IN JAIL ! That is one woman that's just using up AIR by breathing !:mad: :mad: :mad:

My God - those dogs suffered horribly - and for what ? MONEY !

This is the worst most unspeakable act of animal abuse/neglect/tortue I have EVER read about! It sounds like they have more than enough evidence to lock that woman/man whoever the butcher -er- owner was! I cannot believe that there are people so cruel out there!
My heart just breaks thinking about those poor babies who were butchered during c-sections! My god how they must have suffered!
*&*^&_*E MILLERS!!!!

That disqusted me!!!! How awful can a person be to put such sweet little dogs at harm... that really bothers me bad. How sad, how awfully upsetting... oh im going to linger on this one for a few days... i hate stories like that! My babies are my life, just like a human baby and to hear things like that makes me want to hug and hold mine non stop!

This is very nasty and trifiling. How could someone treat any living being this way. Just plain horrible.:mad: :thumbdown

How sick...that made me sick to my stomach. What an old BEEP (can we swear on here?) Words can't describe how horrible this lady is. What was her point of being put on this earth? Them poor dogs...I hope they all find loving homes and recieve the right attention that they need. As for that lady, I hope she sits in a cell for the remainder of her days and is forced to live in her own filth and feces. I hope they treat her the same as she did those poor babies. :(

I have never read anything as bad as this mill...it is heartbreaking.