Target:California State Assembly Sponsored by:ASPCA
Puppy mills are inhumane commercial enterprises that breed dogs as often as possible without providing adequate veterinary care, food, water and socialization.
Assemblyman Pedro Nava recently introduced a bill to crack down on puppy mills in California. Called the Responsible Breeder Act of 2009, the new legislation would prevent the inherent cruelty associated with mass breeding of dogs.
Specifically, the bill would limit the number of intact -- not spayed or neutered -- dogs or cats a breeder can maintain to 50 animals, while creating exceptions for shelters, veterinary facilities and the like. The bill is patterned on legislation passed last year in Virginia, also with a cap of 50, and Louisiana, which imposes a 75-animal limit.
The ASPCA, Humane Society of the United States and Social Compassion in Legislation are working together to pass this legislation. Let's add our help to move California to the list of states that protect dogs in puppy mills and encourage responsible breeding practices -- please act today.
We took action on “Crack Down on Puppy Mills in California”!
# 22,604:
11:21 am PDT, May 23,Jeanette Copeland, Montana
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1:47 pm PDT, May 22,Name not displayed, New York
# 22,602:
1:39 pm PDT, May 22,Donna Small, Indiana
These dogs should have the chance to be loved...not penned up to be used to give birth to puppies that may not be adopted or purchased to begin with.....there are way too many dogs who need a chance for a home....go to the humane societies and adopt...or to the rescue ...we have a beautiful Alaskan Malimute who we got from a rescue...she is the best dog we have ever had...the sweetest dog we ever had...I'll never forget the day we had our Siberian Huskey pick her out....She was chained up to a post with a rope just long enough for her to either sat down or lay down....We will never go, have never gone to a pet store to get an animal...too many diseases in the pet stores.....
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1:32 pm PDT, May 22,Name not displayed, Poland
# 22,600:
1:12 pm PDT, May 22,Sara Bracamontes, North Carolina
because if a human was living in those conditions you get them outta there ASAP
# 22,599:
12:38 pm PDT, May 22,Nathalie RODIONOFF, France
# 22,598:
12:35 pm PDT, May 22,Gabriela Zambrana, Bolivia
Por favor .....apoyemos la causa...por el bien de estos cachorros. Ningun animal debe ser lastimado!!!!!
# 22,597:
12:34 pm PDT, May 22,Katy Freeman, Texas
# 22,596:
12:16 pm PDT, May 22,S. Sykes, Nevada
I don't know whether or not Nikki, the eleven year old Bichon who came into my life two years ago, was or was not born in a puppy mill. I do know that she has special needs that have incurred costs greater than $20,000. Her Pancreatitis that developed into Diabetes resulted in blindness secondary to cataracts. Her sight was restored because there's an eye specialist in our area. Although insulin injections are required twice daily, keeping glucose levels in line are quite the challenge. Other than that she lives the life of a Diva. We're BFFs (best friends forever) and while I cannot document her history, I question the quality of life, to say nothing of life's longeity, for any pet born in a puppy mill. Such a start is unfair to the pet as well as to the adopting family.
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12:07 pm PDT, May 22,Name not displayed, California
# 22,594:
12:03 pm PDT, May 22,Janet Shulman, Massachusetts
# 22,593:
11:42 am PDT, May 22,Sharon Pritchard, Canada
# 22,592:
11:28 am PDT, May 22,Penny Laporta, Illinois
Please stop the suffering of innocent animals.
# 22,591:
11:19 am PDT, May 22,Casandra Garcia, Oregon
# 22,590:
11:13 am PDT, May 22,Samantha Benton, Oregon
Stop this inhumane enterprise! we must act now!
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10:54 am PDT, May 22,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 22,588:
10:37 am PDT, May 22,Joei Borchers, California
# 22,587:
10:12 am PDT, May 22,Susan Marden, Maine
# 22,586:
9:42 am PDT, May 22,Myrna Haga, North Dakota
Help save the helpless dogs who live their lives on the brink of death...thank you for all you do
# 22,585:
9:39 am PDT, May 22,Patricia Lindner, Washington
# 22,584:
9:37 am PDT, May 22,Laurie Perchak, California
We need to support the local rescue foundations and find homes for the dogs and cats that need them first. They don't deserve to die. I already have my quota of 5!
# 22,583:
9:32 am PDT, May 22,Devon Watson, Colorado
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9:16 am PDT, May 22,Theresa Casey, United Kingdom
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9:13 am PDT, May 22,Ellinor Ekholm, Sweden
# 22,580:
9:12 am PDT, May 22,Name not displayed, Spain
STOP THE SALE OF ALIVE BEINGS
# 22,579:
8:44 am PDT, May 22,Anna Troy, Russian Federation
# 22,578:
8:38 am PDT, May 22,Anna Lavrenova, Russian Federation
# 22,576:
8:27 am PDT, May 22,Angela Ingram, Tennessee
I have a personal experience dealing with a puppy mill. I purchased a pug from a puppy mill several years ago. At the time, I had no idea what a puppy mill was. Now I do know and all of them should be shut down and heavily fined. My puppy didn't live to see his first birthday thanks to the inbreeding that all puppy mills encourages. He had a congenital defect due to improper breeding. Nobody should have to experience the devastation of a tragic loss because some jerk wants to make a quick buck. That broke my heart. Please help stop the insanity, cruelty and carlessness of puppy mills.
# 22,577:
8:27 am PDT, May 22,Elise Roddy, Massachusetts
# 22,575:
8:19 am PDT, May 22,Karla Zaragoza, Mexico
# 22,574:
7:24 am PDT, May 22,Nicole Adamson, Arizona
Thank you for taking the opportunity to do the right thing for animals. They don't have a voice, your it.
# 22,573:
7:00 am PDT, May 22,TERESA PATTERSON, Mexico
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6:28 am PDT, May 22,Tabby Stewart, Colorado
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6:25 am PDT, May 22,Martine Lefevre, France
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6:17 am PDT, May 22,Tatiana Soares, Brazil
# 22,569:
5:33 am PDT, May 22,Iwona Borawska-Cebra, Washington D.C.
Please love and respect man's best friends. They do love and respect us.
# 22,568:
5:12 am PDT, May 22,Marie-Rose Grasser, Luxembourg
# 22,567:
4:58 am PDT, May 22,Diana Serna, California
This is a cruel and disgusting line of business, run by people who are concerned only with the Almighty Dollar and not the animal nor the breed. The people who run puppy mills are ignorant and barbaric and have no place in our society!
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4:56 am PDT, May 22,Sandra Ariës, Netherlands
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4:48 am PDT, May 22,Jessica Lumm, Florida
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4:16 am PDT, May 22,Zafer Erturk, Turkey
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3:33 am PDT, May 22,DENISE COGIL, Colorado
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2:53 am PDT, May 22,Anna Boishko, Ireland
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1:58 am PDT, May 22,Randall McKinnon, Hawaii
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1:23 am PDT, May 22,Christine Verduci, France
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12:52 am PDT, May 22,Bonnie Stucker, Florida
# 22,558:
11:34 pm PDT, May 21,Megan Cutler, California
# 22,557:
11:19 pm PDT, May 21,Sarah Reinprecht, Colorado
Puppy Mills are disgusting and should not - no WILL NOT- be tolerated in this country.
# 22,556:
10:04 pm PDT, May 21,Anna Kirkman, Australia
# 22,555:
9:53 pm PDT, May 21,Jeannette Sander, Germany
# 22,554:
9:10 pm PDT, May 21,Michelle Harrington, Alaska
puppy mills are cruel to the animals and to the people who buy the products of the mills and have their hearts broken when their sick puppy lingers and dies...animals are not commodities..they are living, breathing feeling beings...it is so sad that animals are treated like objects and subjected to such pain and suffering....please stop these enterprises, thank you, michelle harrington
# 22,553:
8:48 pm PDT, May 21,Niharika Mishra, India
# 22,552:
8:43 pm PDT, May 21,Linda Heise, Canada
STOP mass breeding of animals. STOP killing the ones that can no longer breed. They are FANTASTIC companions.
# 22,551:
7:59 pm PDT, May 21,Susan M. Hessel, New York
I unknowingly purchased a puppy that came from a puppy mill. 14 days and $2,500.00 in vet bills later, (not including the purchase price of the puppy of $800.00) and the mental pain and suffering of watching a beautiful little animal that didn't even have a chance at life have to be put to sleep was a life long lesson for me. Our puppy had kennel cough and all the terrible things puppies get when they are not properly taken care. Puppy mills should be outlawed in all states of the United States. They are inhumane and they should never be allowed.
