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FreshwaterFishie

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Proposed 600-dog breeding facility
And the newest article...

When I read this in the paper I could not BELIEVE it!!!! OMG! Why would you let him breed 600 dogs! Who really cares about the dog waste and noise, sure it could be an issue, but what about the dogs! UGH! I sent a letter to the Star Tribune, St. Cloud Times, Morrison County Report, the commissioner, Kare 11, WCCO, NBC, the Vice President, and the President. I am so angry!!! :angry: :<
Here is the letter:
I read a article in the paper about a 600-dog breeding facility in Belle Prairie. I am 12 years old and live in Minnesota. The commissioners for Morrison County totally ignore the pleas that the dogs will be neglected. The only problems they say will come up are pollution and noise! But the dogs and puppies in the facility will be neglected.
I am a foster family for dogs in the Twin Cities Miniature Schnauzer Club Rescue. Last year we rescued a Miniature Schnauzer from a puppymill in Texas. She was scared, filthy, and did not know anything; not even grass or leaves. She was being bred as a RARE white schnauzer and was bred so much that she has 2 large tumors on her stomach.
I do not know how you can run a humane breeding program with 600 dogs. Now, 600 dogs to start, but some of the dogs with die of illness or over-breeding and will be replaced and some of the puppies will be chosen has breeding stock. The dogs are inhumanely treated anyway, because it is impossible to house 600+ dogs inside and buy them food and give them clean water and clean them and there area. I can guarantee you that these dogs will never leave there cages expect for breeding; they will not get proper nutrition; and will be used as a business. Dog breeding is not a business, it is strictly done to improve the breed standards. How can ill-treated dogs improve anything, but this man's profit? It is inhumane to breed dogs multiple times. Puppymills breed them every time they can be bred. A responsible breeder does this about every 2-3 years or more and usually uses different dogs. Puppymills breed and breed and breed.
Now watch when this is approved and they have to find a home for 700 dogs. There are many dogs without homes, because their owners bought dogs they cannot take care of. These puppies will be sold to pet stores and then people who do not know that they should never buy from pet stores get a dog that was probably from a puppymill and is sickly and ill-bred.
Here is a picture of Winnie, my white schnauzer from the mill (the picture on the right is when we first got her *after her bath/groom* and then the left is of her now:
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Thank you for reading this!!! :)
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Here is the petition by the way:
Stop the puppymill petition
 
They won't think it's such a good idea once the county's shelters are full with unwanted dogs. Just disgraceful :grr:

The fact that the kennel owner would even consider debarking his dogs is evidence enough that the operation would be less than humane, in my opinion. It's unfair to an animal to "alter" it in a detrimental way just for our own convenience.
 
FreshwaterFishie, you are amazing. To go and write to the media about this sort of thing takes a heap of courage from anyone. For a twelve year old to do it is purely inpirational. I'm 14 now and I know I had less than half the courage you seem to have now. You deserve a medal! :*

I have signed the petition and I hope many more people do!

P.S: Guys, there are a fair few signatures on that petition but if we put it in our forum sigs there could be even more! Think how many people could be reached if we all emailed the petition link to even five of our friends.
 
I think puppymills and farms are disgraceful there are already way too many dogs out there that need good homes! I often look at my dog and wonder if he came from a puppy farm in the uk which I will never know as he had already had at least 4homes before I got him and he was only 9wks old!

I think debarking is a horrid idea, the people that carry it out and pay for it carrying out should have it done to themselves to see how they enjoy not being able to communicate properly! A happy dog doesnt often bark so would not need to be debarked its just another way that the owner of the mill can get away with not giving the dogs proper care an attention!
 
*signs petition*

i don't think you're even allowed to sell puppies in pet shops here now. which is good!
but i'm still shocked when i go to america and see all those "purebred" puppies in tiny cages in pet shops.

i only ever met one dog that i would ever want to be debarked. he was a pretty white lurcher, deaf, and didn't bark, it was an ear-piercing scream! he had his own "guide dog" as well, his best friend a german shepherd. cute, but OW!
 
i think dog breeding on a large scale would be ok if the animals were properly housed, cared for, and the breeding was done in moderation (not 600 at a time). there is definately a market for pure breed dogs, most animal shelters will not carry them. my mother purchased an AKC registered coker spaniel pup from a puppy farm back in august, (she did check the place out first and did find that it was a very clean operation.) i agree that there are way to many dogs out there without homes, but a vast majority of them are mutt breeds. im not into the AKC thing at all, so i would have no problem adopting animals from a shelter, infact over the last few years we have adopted three animals from a local shelter, but there is still a demand to be filled for pure bred animals. i dont think you will ever be able to illiminate selective breeding completely, there will always be sick people out there who misstreat animals, and you will more often than not find that these sick individuals are protected by the other sick individuals we have elected to run our government. the mentioned breeding facility sounds disgusting, and i think there should definately be laws that place restrictions on how many animals those types of facilitys can produce, and how those animals are treated.
 
Thank you FreshwaterFishie for bringing this to our attention!

Sometimes I wonder about people. How can anyone give a license for this kind of thing? You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that it will be impossible for anyone to give individual attention, socialization, and basic care to 600 dogs!! You would have to have somewhere along the lines of 80 people working for you - day in and day out - to care for these animals....and I highly doubt this loser is going to employ that many people! I wish I could say that the USDA report will stop this factory from opening (that's what it is....a factory), I really wish I could say that, but I rather doubt it.

A sad sad day for animals.
 
I have also signed the petition well done FreshwaterFishie hope they close him down :angry: will also put a link to the petition in my signature, please keep us posted :beer: Ivor
 
anyone with half a brain and living near an area with stray dogs should be able to do this math:

600 adult dogs -- probably around 100 males & 500 females

500 female dogs breeding every 6 months
x 4 pups produced per litter
x 2 litters per year
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4000 puppies to find homes for every year in addition to those already existing in shelters and produced by individual dog breeders.

simply ludicrous.
 
That's up here, in MN?! holy crap. signed the petition, I think you have had enough people to sign it now...
 
Hey, that's a petition to stop puppy mills in MN only, shouldn't there be one for the whole world? Or atleast the USA and UK?
 
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