vIndianz.com (Dec. 07, 2009) — There was abundance of action this past week throughout the Humane Society of the United States’ “Puppy Mill Action Week.”
Here’s a little of the news: HSUS launched a national “puppy mill” tip line to persuade public to report brutality in money-making breeding amenities. The hotline, 1-877-MILL-TIP, is open to anybody with information of a probable crime concerning puppy mills.
The action week coincides with the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Most animal welfare groups have the same opinion that giving pets as gifts is usually not a good idea, in case they end up being returned to a store or discarded at a shelter. But if somebody on your Christmas gift list has put a pet at the top of their list, animal welfare groups say, think adopting from a shelter to a certain extent than buying from a pet store. Facts show the majority of pet shop puppies come from great commercial breeding kennels.
To illustrate that point the HSUS previous week released a video interview with a puppy mill whistle blower – a Virginia man who worked at numerous commercial kennels where he says dogs were regularly shot or beaten to death for being sick or infertile. Those that survived, he said, were forced to live outside in crude boxes overflowing with their own waste.
In other news from the frontline of the nation’s puppy mill wars, Wisconsin became the tenth state this year to enact legislation to clean up commercial kennels. The Wisconsin Commercial Dog Breeders Licensure Bill requires huge commercial breeders and animal shelters to be approved by the state and sets least amount standards of essential humanitarian care and provides for usual inspections to ensure obedience. The measure targets just large-scale facilities and does not be relevant to small breeders who sell lesser than 25 dogs in a year.
And, a small community in the scenic Finger Lakes region, southeast of Rochester, New York, previous month took what may be the strongest step any municipality has taken to curtail puppy mills: they debarred them completely. The town of Romulus at present requires pet breeders to give humane housing for dogs and cats and make sure that such animals are treated appropriately. It also restricts kennels to industrial zones, mandates periodic inspections and penalties for ruthless treatment.
“It has been accepted in the press that dogs rescued from puppy mills display a extensive range of veterinary and behavioral problems,” town supervisor David Kaiser told the Finger Lakes Times. “Given the warning to both animal safety and public health, I’m proud of the effort of the town to fight this problem.”
The council took action after enacting a nearly two-year-long moratorium on commercial kennel construction.
Further Reading- Legal test awaits animal research
- REFILE-FSI, Sodiaal, G. Mills still talking on Yoplait – Reuters
- Keeping pets chained could land you in jail – Times of India
- General Mills Profit Rises 8.6%, Misses Estimates on Raw-Material Costs – Bloomberg
- General Mills warns of food costs rising further – Reuters
- Feds, police raid 11 South Florida pill mills – Los Angeles Times
- Syria Says Forces Hit And Hints At Payback – Wall Street Journal
- Syria Says Forces Hit And Hints At Payback – Wall Street Journal
- Night shelter in Kalkaji rebuilt – Times of India
- Everett mill to be sold by Kimberly-Clark – Seattle Times
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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) puts another nail in the coffin of private animal ownership.
Sooner or later the mainstream public — and that includes the mainstream press — will realize the HSUS has cooked the books about animal abuse the same way the environmentalists have cooked the books about global warming.
That’s not to say there isn’t a problem in both areas (animal welfare and the environment) but when the dark animal rights agenda of the HSUS is discovered, it will make the mainstream press look like fools.