What You Can Do To Stop Puppy Mills. from the Oprah show.

[Maraya1969]

https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=22214754


Here are a few of my favorite things from this page.


Tell everyone that you have adopted:

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_adoption_information/find-your-one-in-a-million-friend/order_your_free_adoption_kit.html

ADD A BANNER , (AND I THINK YOU CAN DOWNLOAD POSTERS HERE)

http://www.stoppuppymills.org/add_a_banner_to_your_web_page.html

PUPPY MILL CRUELTY FLIERS

http://www.stoppuppymills.org/pdfs/PuppyMillCrueltyFlyer.pdf



MORE:

https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=22214754

[flvegan]

1. Oprah put together one helluva show today.

Glad to see Wayne Pacelle (CEO, HSUS, "awesome dude") there.

Another fantastic, informational site is the Prisoners of Greed site, maintained by Hearts United for Animals:

http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/

[Lethe]

2. Local people are organizing

http://sanmarcos.craigslist.org/pet/630399095.html

[otherlander]

3. All of the pets in my family

have been adopted. Which means they probably either were bought and then unwanted, or the offspring of bought animals.

I don't mean to get too serious for the Lounge on a Friday night, but I would say that it's wrong to breed and sell animals that will have to live their entire lives in captivity just for people's amusement. But then once these animals have already been bred, we have to take care of them. They can't live in the wild, so all we can really do is give them other animals to play with and room to run around outside. But does that mean, ideally, if there wasn't all of this breeding-for-captivity going on, there would be no more animals living in people's houses?

[joeybee12]

4. Glad she did this...it's heartbraeking how some of these mills operate. n/t

[flvegan]

5. What's heartbreaking is that the USDA/APHIS is so complicit

in allowing this. And it's not "some" it's all.

In 1966 Congress passed the Animal Welfare Act, which outlines specific minimum standards of care for dogs, cats, and some other kinds of animals bred for commercial resale. The AWA is enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Under the AWA, certain large-scale commercial breeders are required to be licensed and regularly inspected by the USDA. But there are many inefficiencies and loopholes in the system.

Only large-scale commercial facilities that breed or broker animals for resale—to pet stores for example—are required to be licensed and inspected by the USDA because they are considered "wholesale" operations. Those that sell directly to the public—thousands of facilities that breed and sell just as many puppies as their wholesale counterparts—are not required to adhere to the Animal Welfare Act or to any federal humane care standards.

Inspection records obtained by The HSUS show that many USDA-licensed breeders get away with repeated violations of the Animal Welfare Act. These violators are rarely fined nor are their licenses suspended. Facilities with long histories of repeated violations for basic care conditions are often allowed to renew their licenses again and again. Over the years The HSUS has encouraged better staffing and funding for USDA inspection programs in order to increase enforcement capabilities.

[Maraya1969]

6. Hey can we rate this up unless someone else has one up there?

I think it is a great group of ideas. And there are more at the links. Bless Oprah.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Where am I supposed

to get my puppies ground into flour?