PRISONERS OF GREED PUPPY MILLS BREED MISERY
www.prisonersofgreed.org/
This website is produced
by the Coalition Against Misery. If you would like to join the
Coalition, please click on the blue link on the left.
Hundreds of thousands of
dogs suffer in puppy mills in this country. They are prisoners of
greed. The dogs are locked in small cages. They freeze in the
winter and swelter in the summer. They never get out of their
prisons. They are bred over and over again until they die. The only
way to free them from their misery is to eliminate the demand for
puppies by refusing to buy a puppy in a pet store and boycotting
those stores that sell puppies. When the demand ends, the misery
will end. The state and federal governments do not enforce the laws
to protect the dogs. The commercial breeders and brokers have huge
well-funded lobbying efforts. Please join this fight to free the
prisoners of greed. The only person who is going to make a
difference for these dogs is you. You, the people, can free
them.
The Coalition Against
Misery is going to put a full page ad in the New York Times about
Pennsylvania Puppy Mills. See web site.
You can view the movie
about puppy mills called Prisoners of Greed see web site. It is a
very large file so may take some time to
download.
HOPE
The only way you can be
sure that the puppy in the pet store did not come a female dog just
like Hope is to never buy a dog in a petstore.
When Linda, an HUA
volunteer and director, picked the little dog up at the commercial
kennel in Kansas, she was horrified. She did not think that the dog
would live long enough to make it back to the shelter. Linda called
the shelter on her way back and asked to have our vet standing by.
She took the dog directly to the clinic. Hope weighed just two
pounds. She had lost almost all of her hair from malnutrition,
infection and stress. Her teeth were rotten. Infection had spread
throughout her tiny body. Linda asked the vet if there was any hope
for her. He said there was a little hope. So she became
Hope.
Hope has touched the
heart of everyone who has meet her. If you ever wondered about what
puppy mills were like, all you have to do is look at Hope's face.
Look at the expression in her eyes. Look at her emaciated body.
Then tell everyone you know never to buy a dog in a pet
store.
Hope is a Maltese. She
was 6 years old when she was rescued. Her first days of freedom
were spent at the vet's where they worked to save her life. She
went home to Linda. Her health was still very precarious. She
gained weight very slowly. At first the only food she would eat was
Gerber Baby Meat Sticks. It took months for her to gain weight.
When she had her teeth cleaned, she lost 22
teeth
Her first trip out to
the yard was very surprising to her. She had no idea what it was.
She had never been outside. At first she was quite timid but
gradually she seemed to enjoy herself. Hope is very happy. Her
health has always been fragile so she gets very special
care.
When you see the cute
puppies in the pet store, think of Hope. The kennel she came from
in Kansas still sells puppies to pet stores on the East
Coast.
HOPE A WEEK AFTER
RESCUE
HOPE
TODAY
