Just FYI, Diane built the second aviary in the MickaCoo network (in Camarillo) for rescued king pigeons and adopted 20. She cares for them and rescues dogs scheduled for euthanasia in So Cal. e ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Diane Rowley Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM Subject: Fw: ABC Nightline investigates puppy mills - this Friday at 11:35 pm (Easter... To: kippermom@hotmail.com *EVERY ONE....* Please forward this far and wide. Do not think that this is a problem specific to the Mid-West or large cities. Puppy mills are a leading cause of overcrowding in all shelters, *including *Camarillo. There are out of state puppy mill breeders who literally bring a trunk-full of puppies and sell them in our local parking lots. Think of it like this...EVERY puppy brought INTO Ventura County, will cost the life of a dog already here. If we have 50 potential dog homes and 51 dogs....well, you get the picture. This may be hard to watch...but not as hard as the alternative. Thank you. Diane Rowley Van Sickle *P.A.P.A. *"...*until they ALL have homes*." www.vcpapa.org www.papa-alliance.org http://vcpapa.blogspot.com http://facebook.com/pages/PAPA-Protect-and-Promote-Animals/131184593563299 *ABC Nightline investigates puppy mills - this Friday at 11:35 pm (Eastern Standard Time).* *Please take the time to forward this to all the rescues, shelters, and legislators in your area. * *TAPE IT IF YOU CAN’T WATCH!* *From:* Pat McQueen Pat McQueen, President PETS, Inc., The Carolinas Humane Society P.O. Box 6394 West Columbia, SC 29171 www.petsinc.org (My apologies if this is a repeat). I have sent this information to everyone on my PETS, Inc e-mail list. *We are asking you to please watch ABC Nightline this Friday at 11:35 EST concerning** Amish puppy mills**.* Most of all please forward this information to everyone on *your** *e-mail list. The Amish in Pennsylvania, and I suppose just about everywhere, have been known for years to be one of the worst puppy mill breeders in the United States (and probably Canada). This came as quite a surprise to me though as I never imagined these people would treat animals so cruelly and harshly. I changed my mind when I saw a documentary several years ago. They have "facilities" where they breed hundreds, even thousands of small breeds under terrible conditions.. Several times a year they hold huge sales of older worn out small breed dogs. The conditions of these dogs are beyond description, some are blind, crippled, etc. But apparently they still havea few more litters left in them, and are sold at these huge auctions where hundreds of "bottom rung on the ladder" breeders can pick them up for as little as $10, $15, $25. Newspeople who have tried to attend have been turned away and thrown off the property. Hidden cameras showed what was happening inside the barns where these auctions are held. It also showed the fields where the Amish grow their crops. A small airplane took pictures of these fields that were strewn with the carcasses of little dogs that died in their "care". They use them for fertilizer. Hard to believe I know,* but that is why you and everyone you know (who cares about animal welfare) needs to watch this documentary*. It is also why you must believe it when rescue organizations like us beg you not to buy puppies from puppy mills, backyard breeders, and pet stores that sell puppies, and who procure them from puppy mills. In the past twenty years we have taken in many hundreds of animals rescued from puppy mills and backkyard breeders, or given us by their owners who are "retiring". . The conditions they come to us in are horrific and heartbreaking. The laws are almost non-existent toprotect these unfortunate animals. Even when brought back to a semblance of good health, many are so traumatized from their experiences of living in a filthy cage all their lives, they never recover from their ordeal. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Again, please e-mail and tell everyone you know about the upcoming show. *Pat McQueen, President, PETS, Inc ~ The Carolinas Humane Society.* *From Lori West's Facebook today, February 16th.* *Well friends, once again, the cat is out of the bag - or should we say the dog out of the hutch! This Friday night, March 27, ABC's Nightline will be investigating puppy mills! ** **ABC Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi and investigators from Nightline travel the byways and back roads of * *Lancaster County, Pennsylvania* *- * *visiting numerous puppy mills and filming Main Line Animal Rescue's volunteers as they rescue breeding dogs and puppies from Lancaster County's notorious Amish commercial breeding facilities. ** This promises to be a very special program. If you are involved in rescue, advocate on behalf of the millions of puppy mill dogs interned in our nation's commercial dog breeding facilities, or if you just simply love animals, you will not want to miss this. Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed, on camera, an Amish breeder while touring his facility - a first for network television. With approximately 500 dogs housed on his property, this commercial breeder speaks openly about an industry cloaked in secrecy and suspicion - the cruel factory farming of man's best friend. PLEASE tell your friends, your family, your coworkers - ABC Nightline investigates puppy mills - this Friday at 11:35 pm (Eastern Standard Time). Please take the time to forward this to all the rescues, shelters, and legislators in your area. It has been almost one year since Oprah's puppy mill show aired. That program received the highest viewer response of any Oprah Show in years. Now we need to spread the word about this very special Nightline. Only by educating as many people as we can, will we be able to help these animals. And after you watch the program, please don't hesitate to contact ABC and Nightline to thank them for casting such a strong light on the plight of our nation's puppy mill dogs. * Pat McQueen, President PETS, Inc., The Carolinas Humane Society P.O. Box 6394 West Columbia, SC 29171 www.petsinc.org -- Elizabeth * * Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0