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Meet Oklahoma's Dog Breeders
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Oklahoma ranks close to the top nationally in the number of breeders currently doing their dirty work in the state, and The Tulsa World recently featured a fascinating investigation into Oklahoma’s culture of breeding, from the hideous puppy millers to the other vile breeders, who parade their sickly “pedigree” animals around and worry about their posture, while they completely ignore the fact that the miserable animals are languishing in hutches and cages not fit for a rock, let alone a living, breathing animal. Much like the shelter animals down the road from them, who will die because these people have chosen to make their living bringing more dogs into a country that has millions more than it can handle.
It’s all a little depressing, but definitely worth checking out—particularly this video, which shows the legal conditions that licensed breeders keep their animals in, because the USDA has told them it’s “acceptable.”
On a much more positive note, The Chicago Tribune is holding a contest to pick Chicago’s most beautiful dog. If you’re a dog lover, a Chicagoan, or just someone with an interest in canine aesthetics, you can go check it out here, but be sure to vote for a mutt. Because everybody loves a mutt.
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Why all these monsters exit? the dogs have to pay a big price, just for these horrible people gain a profit. I hate all these animals cruelty people.
Posted by: liliana | October 26, 2007 02:19 PM
fusion dog FTW!
Posted by: jess | October 26, 2007 02:40 PM
Why not do something about it?
Posted by: Mr. Chief | October 26, 2007 05:54 PM
Many would be shocked by the lobby that is actually supporting the puppy millers these days
The "reputable" dog breeding world. Yep, the various breed club members, AKC people, and all the rest.
To start, AKC now makes most of its income on puppy mill puppy registrations. They lobby FOR the mills, against rules and regulations that can stop the suffering but perhaps potentially decrease the cash flow in for those dog shows and big salaries.
Then there are your local "reputable" breeders- you know, the ones who say they breed only for the "betterment" of the breed and don't make money.
Load of crap. They sure do make money, and few to none are licensed or on the books or reporting income.
Many are running illegal businesses out of homes, or breaking dog limit laws, or zoning laws, or environmental laws, or whatever.
So they fight ANY humane law, any rule, any call for licensing, anything that would take dog breeding out of the dark, underground place it inhabits.
They put themselves in the position of fighting laws that would apply to commercial kennels or puppy mills because they only care about their own selfish interests.
And the torture and suffering go on for the dogs trapped in these hellhole mills.
Posted by: kelly | October 26, 2007 11:44 PM
The USDA told them it was "acceptable," just as the USDA has declared factory farming acceptable or the high speed slaughter of animals at slaughterhouses which results in animals being scalded alive. That, too, is "acceptable." The USDA is about as useless and unaccountable as a government agency gets. They have long ignored their true responsibility to protect animals in favor of the lobbies and agribusiness. So it's not surprising that they find the puppy mills "acceptable." The agency people must spend so much time in their little rabbit warren offices that they have forgotten that most living beings require more than a few square feet to live well.
Posted by: Susannah S | October 27, 2007 09:34 AM
Good work from The Tulsa World.
Posted by: Margarita | October 27, 2007 11:35 PM
Take up arms and destroy the mills. Make a new mill for feeding the puppies (Windmill, grinds grain)
Posted by: Caboose | October 29, 2007 03:52 PM
kelly,
As always, your great posts get right to the truthful points.
I would like to add that the AKC dog show on tv is proud to be sponsored by Eukanuba, who - as we know - does horrendous experiments on dogs in their torture labs!
Posted by: Ariel | October 29, 2007 10:24 PM
Blame money for all these problems. Stupid dollar. Peso FTW.
Posted by: Caboose | October 29, 2007 11:31 PM
Perez Hilton just bought a dog from a puppy mill and posted on his blog about it.
Is there some reason you haven't raked him over the coals yet or at least taken his blog off of your blog roll?
Posted by: annie | October 30, 2007 03:03 PM
In McAlester, Ok, there is a dog catcher who is cruel to the animals and using the purebreed dogs for his own personal profits. If anyone is willing to help me in my fight against this cruel dog catcher please email me at young_head@yahoo.com or call me at (918) 302-5277.
Thanks
DeWayne
Posted by: DeWayne Bumphus | December 20, 2007 07:33 PM
please you know NOTHING about dogs or breeders. most so called "purebreds" in animal shelters do not conform to the standard, have to be spayed or neutered, and dont have available AKC papers, rendering them un showable anyone who sells dogs for a profit is a puppy mill a real breeder cares about his/her animal. when you think about it they lose money on stud fees, vaccinations, registrations, etc. additionally designer dogs are never shown and cannot be registered. how can you claim to be a pro-animal organization if all animals were spayed/neutered where would we be in 20-30 years? please get a life! you dont have to like everybodys decision but its freedom of choice. peta has even been known to let showdogs out of their crates.many people dont want a shelter dog because they often have health or behavior problems. now lets not forget that peta was recently caught dumping dead animals into a dumpster? where did those animals come from? still people, address the real issue of puppy mills, dogfighters, and abusers etc.
Posted by: rose | January 2, 2008 10:50 AM
NO ONE has the right to mistreat an animal...and NO ONE has the right to tell me if I can bred my dog....they are my children!
We could save money if some of the breeders of children were spayed but we haven't suggested that yet...have we?
Nor am I hear to defend puppy mills with tons of dogs but I am here to say...I will keep my own dogs and their family going without burdening the rescue possee....and don't need PETA telling me the rules!
READ PETA's agenda! Move to India....they have lots of rats for you!
Posted by: katherine | June 19, 2008 09:13 AM