Stories posted at Puppies at Burningbird.
Submitted by Shelley on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:46
Two posts today over at Puppies at Burningbird.
The first has to do with the Debe Bell rabbit seizure. The Tea Party pundits had a field day with the "illegal" seizure and rants about property rights...until the Sheriff's office released photos taken of the Bell rabbits when they were seized. Unlike an O'Keefe video, these photos weren't "artistically edited", and demonstrate the horrid conditions under which these rabbits lived.
The second has to do with Attorney General Koster's new Anti-cruelty site, which is anything but anti-cruelty. I don't know what's happening in the administration of Jay Nixon. I don't know if Jon Hagler, Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, and Koster have had a falling out.
Submitted by Shelley on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 15:09
Puppies...bunnies.... No animal should be treated cruelly in mills, roadside zoos, or the other places where greedy people prosper from animal suffering. I've extended the scope of this site to cover other types of animals, as well as other types of places that the USDA monitors, such as the deplorable roadside zoos found in too many states. My primary interest is still in closing down puppy mills in Missouri, but all these critters need all the champions they can get.
More at Puppies at Burningbird.
Another bunny mill story, but this time in Colorado. One angora pulled from a cage in the 85+ degree building was so covered in matted fur that you could barely see its face. As the sheriff stated, not only were the rabbits thirsty, they were "aggressively thirsty".
Submitted by Shelley on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 13:39
From Puppies at Burningbird:
Wendy Laymon has a shameful history of animal neglect as a commercial breeder, including being fined by the USDA and losing her USDA license. Chat in the community has it that she started up the Rescue a French Bulldog, not to save poor homeless french bull dogs but to muddy the water for genuine rescues—not to mention siphoning off donations from the less informed, as well as being a way to get rid of frenchies that haven't sold through her commercial breeding operation.
Submitted by Shelley on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 15:50
From Dollarhites: A Saga that Should End
The USDA informed me I could re-submit a request for the additional 120 pages of information once this case is closed. However, I have a 100 new kennel campaigns I want to start in the next month, and am not sure I want to continue to waste time with this issue. I would like to continue with a defense of the USDA—I feel they were grossly maligned with this incident—but there's a tawdry aspect to all of this that is making me lose interest.
It's not as if the Tea Party types will admit their errors, or do any fact checking. Evidently, tea and facts don't go together well.
Submitted by Shelley on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 15:52
From Puppies at Burningbird:
I received the disposition records sent to the Missouri Department of Agriculture as part of the consent decree for the closure of S & S Family Puppies. I've linked the PDF of the records, but note it is a rather large document.
The disposition records were from the auction of the dogs. All but a few of the dogs went to other breeders. Among the violations for some of the breeders are the following....
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