Target:Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper and Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson Sponsored by:Care2
Ever wonder where the adorable puppies in many pet stores came from? The answer is not a pretty one -- puppy mills. Canada is home to a multimillion-dollar puppy mill industry, which breeds not only puppies, but inexcusable cruelty on a massive scale.
In order to make the greatest profit possible, dogs are continuously bred in very poor conditions. The animals have no human contact and live in tiny, unsanitary cages that are sometimes stacked so that excrement and urine falls through, matting the poor animals' fur. Once the breeding adults are too worn out, they are often killed. Sadly, the industry sells many puppies with behavioral and chronic health issues.
What's worse, the horrible conditions of puppy mills are tolerated under current laws. Canada's Cruelty to Animals Act has gone basically untouched since 1892 and the outdated cruelty laws give very little punishment to puppy mill operators.
Ontario is the first and only province to enact legislation that covers puppy mills, increasing punishment for animal cruelty -- it's time to make this change on a national scale. Urge the Prime Minister and Justice Minister of Canada to revise the Cruelty to Animals Act and put an end to animal abuse in puppy mills.
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9:01 am PST, Nov 21,Debra Freire, Canada
A shameful issue such as this needs your attention.
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8:49 am PST, Nov 21,Molly Mnld, Antarctica
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6:41 am PST, Nov 21,Sarah Lyka, Canada
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3:51 am PST, Nov 21,Deborah McDow, Canada
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3:05 am PST, Nov 21,Name not displayed, Poland
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8:36 pm PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Australia
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7:03 pm PST, Nov 20,Jenna Braben, Canada
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4:13 pm PST, Nov 20,Stephanie Oneschuk, Canada
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1:40 pm PST, Nov 20,Patricia Holmwood, Canada
Please there are enough unwanted puppies around now, please stop puppy mills and fine these people for the horrid crime they are committing. What are they teahing children about the care of animals? Please stop puppy mills now.
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12:34 pm PST, Nov 20,Alicia Aceves Estrada, Mexico
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9:35 am PST, Nov 20,Linda Fox, Canada
thousands of adult dogs are waiting to be adopted. if you just increased the penalties and punishments for puppy mills it would have a positive ripple effect
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9:00 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Ohio
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5:48 pm PST, Nov 19,Tiffany Holsen, Pennsylvania
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3:13 pm PST, Nov 19,Phillip Carew, Canada
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2:59 pm PST, Nov 19,Heather Me, Canada
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12:32 pm PST, Nov 19,Nieves Sanchez, Spain
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5:44 am PST, Nov 19,Dana Yetman, Canada
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4:34 pm PST, Nov 18,Krista Burkhart, Canada
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3:23 pm PST, Nov 18,Karisa Cotter, Arkansas
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1:36 pm PST, Nov 18,Gloria Klyne, Canada
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5:28 am PST, Nov 18,Lorena Parellada cabre, Spain
dejad en paz a los animales de una vez!! basta ya de abusos hacia ellos!
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4:53 am PST, Nov 18,Name not displayed, France
I thought Canada was a civilzed country... My family and I will boycott every single product from this country.
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4:50 am PST, Nov 18,Daniel Goldschmied, Austria
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4:47 pm PST, Nov 17,Ellie Shain, California
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8:19 am PST, Nov 17,Nathalie Langevin, Canada
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8:09 am PST, Nov 17,Peter Maly, Canada
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8:50 pm PST, Nov 16,John Hill, Canada
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7:05 pm PST, Nov 16,Kevin Davidson, Canada
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12:07 pm PST, Nov 16,Shirley Staples, Canada
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10:04 am PST, Nov 16,Kyle King, Canada
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7:25 am PST, Nov 16,Kim Baker, Canada
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7:00 am PST, Nov 16,Isabel Pereira, New York
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6:54 am PST, Nov 16,Rosemary Kelly, Canada
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6:37 am PST, Nov 16,Linnea Rowlatt, Canada
The way in which we behave towards animals bespeaks loudly the manner of human being that we are. Let us become a human nation, placing kindness above profit.
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5:03 am PST, Nov 16,Sagrario Rilo, Spain
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4:21 pm PST, Nov 15,Lynn Stary, Canada
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3:21 pm PST, Nov 15,Josephine Tyrrell, Canada
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1:15 pm PST, Nov 15,Marissa Chiappetta, Florida
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6:22 am PST, Nov 15,Sarah Manthey, Ohio
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3:12 pm PST, Nov 14,Jessie Martin, Canada
Working at a veterinary hospital I see the results of bad breeders all the time. Update our animal cruelty laws now!
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2:47 pm PST, Nov 14,Christian Contardi, Canada
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6:54 am PST, Nov 14,Susan Griffiths, Austria
I had no idea this was going on. This is disgusting. Please stop it now.
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11:29 am PST, Nov 13,Kathy Cassidy, Canada
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8:13 am PST, Nov 13,Tiffany Brown, Canada
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7:51 am PST, Nov 13,Mania Azad, Canada
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5:44 am PST, Nov 13,Theresia Cronan, California
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12:50 am PST, Nov 13,TIFFANIE LUONG, California
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7:42 pm PST, Nov 12,Name not displayed, Canada
If you really feel like selling these puppies when you sell them tell the people up front what they have gone through, tell the people that are thinking of buying them that they have been produced in a puppy mill. Put a sign up in every pet-store saying this dog is from a puppy mill and show them what you have done to them, see what people think! Nobody i tell you nobody will ever buy a puppy like this again. This cruel! It is like raping a female dog to make puppies that a child will hold not knowing that it gave money to a group of people that in a sense are raping dogs! Ask yourself what you are doing. Please help the dogs!!!
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6:33 pm PST, Nov 12,Name not displayed, Canada
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6:31 pm PST, Nov 12,Glenn Guthrie, Canada
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6:22 pm PST, Nov 12,Glenn Guthrie, Canada
Mr. Harper: You or your Justice Minister can do something about this, Stiffer jail time and large fines would help and their names published in the newspaper. Please do something about this
Glenn Guthrie
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6:02 pm PST, Nov 12,Name not displayed, Australia
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1:30 pm PST, Nov 12,Bernadine McDowall, Canada
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11:11 am PST, Nov 12,Bruce Edwards, Canada
I would NEVER buy a puppy. Instead, I rescued and adopted several big old dogs from death row. They are VERY grateful and are wonderful friends.
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11:06 am PST, Nov 12,Anna T., Ukraine
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10:19 am PST, Nov 12,Name not displayed, Canada
Animals are feeling beings just like you and me, and they were not put on this planet to be used, abused and exploited as we see fit. What are you waiting for to put an end to the horrors of puppy mills in Canada? PLEASE DO IT NOW!
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8:52 am PST, Nov 12,Anne Barusta, Canada
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8:04 am PST, Nov 12,Name not displayed, Canada
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7:52 am PST, Nov 12,Judy Anderson, Canada
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7:41 am PST, Nov 12,Tracey McDonnell, Canada
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7:18 am PST, Nov 12,Gail Baker-Gregory, Canada
Please, put and end to puppy mills across the Country; impose stiffer penalties and jail time for those who treat these poor creatures so terribly, FOR PROFIT!
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9:34 pm PST, Nov 11,Wj Hinestrosa, Canada
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7:51 pm PST, Nov 11,Kristol Booth, Australia
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10:55 am PST, Nov 11,Rhiannon Smith, Canada
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11:11 pm PST, Nov 10,Peanut White, Canada
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10:34 pm PST, Nov 10,Stephanie McClennon, Canada
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9:04 pm PST, Nov 10,Linda Pelletier, Canada
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7:59 pm PST, Nov 10,Saadia Islam, Canada
Protect the animals from psychological and other medical health problems wherever they are living and breeding.
