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Durham Society Rescues Animals From Puppy Mill

Posted: Today at 1:28 a.m.
Updated: Today at 8:59 a.m.

Durham — The Animal Protection Society of Durham assisted in rescuing
animals from a puppy mill in Hillsville, Va., that owned more than 1,000
animals.

The Humane Society of the United States uncovered the puppy mill after a
5-month-long investigation. HSUS selected the APS, along with other shelters
along the East Coast, to help rescue the animals.

APS members drove up to Huntsville on Thursday and took home 30 dogs and
puppies. At the Durham shelter, the dogs were medically evaluated and
bathed.

APS is asking those interested in adopting the dogs to check out their
pictures online and submit applications by email or fax. The animals will be
on public display next week.

In puppy mills, animals are kept in often deplorable conditions for
commercial breeding purposes.

"tiny dancer" wrote in message:

Durham Society Rescues Animals From Puppy Mill

These dogs are making their way up to the local rescues also. Montgomery
County Animal Shelter just got in 100 of these guys. Sad thing is that they
weren't able to shut operations down, just convince the guy to keep the # of
dogs to a maintainable level. The guy released something like 980 dogs, and
kept 100 to continue operations.

I believe that just about all the dogs are small breeds. As long as they
pass health/temperament tests, most would be adoptable.

Suja

"Suja" wrote in message
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"tiny dancer" wrote in message:

Durham Society Rescues Animals From Puppy Mill

These dogs are making their way up to the local rescues also. Montgomery
County Animal Shelter just got in 100 of these guys. Sad thing is that
they
weren't able to shut operations down, just convince the guy to keep the #
of
dogs to a maintainable level. The guy released something like 980 dogs,
and
kept 100 to continue operations.

I believe that just about all the dogs are small breeds. As long as they
pass health/temperament tests, most would be adoptable.

Suja


The female, Suzie, in the photo's I posted, caught my eye.

IMHO, no one should be allowed to be licensed to keep 500 dogs.

td

"tiny dancer" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

IMHO, no one should be allowed to be licensed to keep 500
dogs.

Why?

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"Rocky" wrote in message
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"tiny dancer" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

IMHO, no one should be allowed to be licensed to keep 500
dogs.

Why?


As a breeder? Way too many dogs to care for properly, way too much
over-breeding, hence puppy mill.


td



--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

In article ,
tiny dancer wrote:
As a breeder? Way too many dogs to care for properly, way too much
over-breeding, hence puppy mill.

One of the fastest, most successful working sleddog kennels
has several hundred dogs, with between 60-90 puppies every
year. Their dogs are in extremely (extremely!) high demand,
every puppy gets walked or run every day, and the place is
fastidiously clean. You may disagree with what they're
doing (and in my experience you'll disagree with what
they're doing while knowing absolutely nothing about it
'cause you're an ignorant jackass) but you can't claim that
the dogs aren't receiving "proper" care and you can't claim
that it's a puppy mill. Or rather, you can claim those
things but you'd be wrong.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

"tiny dancer" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

IMHO, no one should be allowed to be licensed to keep
500 dogs.

Why?

As a breeder? Way too many dogs to care for properly, way
too much over-breeding, hence puppy mill.

What's your cut-off point number, then, between a good and bad
breeder?

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"Rocky" wrote in message
...
"tiny dancer" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

IMHO, no one should be allowed to be licensed to keep
500 dogs.

Why?

As a breeder? Way too many dogs to care for properly, way
too much over-breeding, hence puppy mill.

What's your cut-off point number, then, between a good and bad
breeder?


To tell you the truth, I don't really know. I just know that 500 onsite
dogs denotes to me, puppy mill. One would have to keep quite a few breeding
dogs to end up with 500 dogs on site IMO. And the person in this article
had over 1000 dogs on-site.

td

In article ,
tiny dancer wrote:
To tell you the truth, I don't really know. I just know that 500 onsite
dogs denotes to me, puppy mill.

There's the problem. It should suggest to you a puppy mill,
not "denote" (and are you sure you know what the word
"denote" actually means?), and you'd need more information
in order to know one way or the other.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

"tiny dancer" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

As a breeder? Way too many dogs to care for properly,
way too much over-breeding, hence puppy mill.

What's your cut-off point number, then, between a good and
bad breeder?

To tell you the truth, I don't really know. I just know
that 500 onsite dogs denotes to me, puppy mill. One would
have to keep quite a few breeding dogs to end up with 500
dogs on site IMO. And the person in this article had over
1000 dogs on-site.

It would look pretty lousy if, as part of an anti-puppy mill
campaign, one organised a photo shoot at a 500 dog kennel and
found lots of well-kept and well-bred dogs.

While I generally agree with you, broad assertions can put us
into the PeTA-style method of branding.

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.