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Article: HAPPY TAILS TIPS Animals deserve better than life in puppy mill
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- March 25, 2007
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Puppy mills or breeding facilities - whatever you call them, they
all make me sick. Over the years, TV and newspaper stories have
highlighted the problems associated with puppy mills. Dogs are
usually held in small, stacked wire kennels barely big enough to turn
around in. Day after day, year after year, they live out their lives
in these horrible places only to produce litter after litter for
hungry profiteers. Many of the "hobby breeders" stack their kennels
up in the basement or in barn areas to try to hide the fact they have
unlicensed breeding programs. We have rescued many, many dogs from
these deplorable conditions over the years.
Some shelters do not believe in rescuing animals from ...