Help Puppy Mill Dogs In Your State
If you live in Pennsylvania:
Please write or call your state representative and urge him/her to support House Bill 2525, as well as House Bills 2532 and 0499. Find your representative: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/index.cfm. Visit www.DogLawAction.com for more information.
If your representative refuses to support these Bills, ask him/her why he/she is against making water readily available to dogs interned in our state's commercial breeding facilities. Ask them if they really believe it is alright for farmers with fourth grade educations to perform major operations on their breeding dogs without anesthesia. Ask them why they are against a Bill that would prevent individuals convicted of animal cruelty from obtaining state licenses to breed and house hundreds of dogs.
Then call your State Senator (who will soon vote on these Bills in the Senate) and urge him/her to support the legislation. Ask them to do everything they can to help dogs like the dogs featured on Oprah's recent television show. Oprah's "Puppy Mill Show" received the highest response of any show in two years. The average person on the street is appalled by the treatment (or mistreatment) of dogs and puppies in our nation's commercial dog breeding facilities, and wants their elected legislators to help them.
We must always remember one thing, there are more people who love dogs in Pennsylvania than people breeding large quantities of puppies. We have the power to help these animals by insisting our elected officials support this legislation. Don't let a few individuals, making millions off the backs of these poor animals, decide how dogs should be treated in Pennsylvania. If your representative is against the legislation ask him (or her) two questions. 1) Why are they against legislation that would provide dogs housed in our state's infamous puppy mills with vet care, larger cages, and a minimum of exercise, and 2) When are they running for re-election and who will be running against them.
Use your power as a voter, and as a taxpayer, to help stop the cruelty and neglect so common in all of Pennsylvania's puppy mills. The time has come to act. We cannot let them down. Stare into the eyes of the dogs at your feet then pick up the phone, call your legislators, and urge them to support House Bill 2525. And House Bills 2532 and 0499.
If you live outside of Pennsylvania:
- Call or write the Governor of your state, and contact your legislators, and ask them what is being done about puppy mills in your state. Find out how they stand on puppy mills, then when they come up for re-election, use your vote accordingly.
- If you are planning a trip to Pennsylvania this summer, call the Lancaster County Tourist Board at 717-299-8901, and the Pennsylvania Tourist Board at 1-800-847-4872, and explain your reluctance to visit a state that would subject hundreds of thousands of dogs to the most unbearable of conditions.
- Remember 99% of all puppies sold in pet stores are bred in puppy mills while their mothers stay behind to suffer untold hardships. And for every puppy bred to be sold in your local pet store, a dog dies in our nation's shelters because there just aren't enough homes. Please consider adopting your next pet. Save a life. Adopt!
- Beware of buying dogs over the Internet as well. Some of the worst puppy mills in the country have web sites featuring photographs of adorable children holding adorable puppies. Puppies in baskets with gingham backdrops and flowers. Don't believe what you see. If you can't meet the puppy's parents, see where and how they are living, don't buy the dog. The road to the emergency vet hospital is paved with families who bought sick puppies from pet stores, or from misleading web sites, then found themselves spending $2500 only to have the dog die three days after they bought it.