Thank you for the e-mail addresses. I e-mailed Cheney, Bush, and Barney with this e-mail:
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President Bush and Vice President Cheney,
I am writing to you today to suggest that you do something to shut down puppymills and punish their owners. Puppy mills are breeding factories with inhumane conditions and horrible cruelty in several forms. Puppy mills are located all over the United States. At puppy mills, dogs are bred & rebred every time they come into heat until they die. Dogs and puppies that live in puppy mills are kept outside in wire-bottom cages. Sometimes, a dog or puppy will get their foot or leg stuck in the wire, and in an attempt to get their leg free, the dogs pull and the wire cut the leg or foot completely off. In most pupy mills, the cages are never cleaned out and the dogs spend their lives living in their own feces and urine. Dogs and puppies living in puppy mills are left outside all year. Usually, they have no protection from the weather. There are usually several puppies and dogs to one cage. They are crowded and trapped. The dogs and puppies living in puppy mills often get sick. There is no one there to care for them.
Dogs living in puppy mills never get the opportunity to be loved. They are very rarely to never let out of their cages to be cuddled and played with. They are never socialized. They live their lives in cages constantly being bred so that the owner of the puppy mill can make a profit. Some dogs living in puppy mills are de-barked, usually by ramming pipes down their throats.
Puppies are born with defects from the abuse, and their parents are inter bred which can lead to more defects. The dogs and puppies living in puppy mills are fed only enough to keep them alive. Most of the time the food and water bowls are empty. The puppies are taken away from their mothers earlier than they should be. They are shipped all over the United States where brokers take them to pet stores to sell. They have not been checked for defects or any diseases. to pet stores where they will be sold.
When someone buys a puppy mill puppy from a pet store, they often end up spending thousands of dollars in vet bills because of the conditions they were bred and transported in. Many of the puppies don't survive the trip to the pet stores. They die before they get there.
If a puppy is deformed and cannot be used for breeding, they are often killed in horrifying, inhumane ways. Many of these puppies are born with genetic conditions of the heart and lungs, or suffer seizures which sometimes don't show up for years. Many of them have parvo, worms, mange, and various other disorders.
Even if a puppy at a pet store comes with registration papers – it does not mean they came from good breeding conditions. The AKC receives revenue from the millers for these registrations.
When the dogs used for breeding are no longer useful to the millers, they are inhumanely disposed of.
For more information about puppymills, please visit:
http://www.millbusters.com http://www.stoppuppymills.org/ http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/ http://www.lcanimal.org/cmpgn/cmpgn_012.htm
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my e-mail. I love animals, and I cannot believe what happens to the poor dogs and puppies at puppy mills. Please, do something about it!
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