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Article: 1,100 dogs to get new homes <> Humane Society buys, will close large- scale breeding facility
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2008
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The Wisconsin Humane Society is buying one of the largest dog
breeding facilities in the nation, and plans to close the kennel and
find new homes for the more than 1,100 dogs there, the society
announced Friday.
The action appears to be an unprecedented step in the campaign by
U.S. humane societies against puppy mills.
"We have not heard of this ever being done by a local facility,"
said Cory Smith, program manager of animal sheltering issues for the
Humane Society of the United States. "You see these places and it's
heartbreaking. So when you know that people are making a living by
this, this approach seems like a logical step -- to use financial
means to get the animals out of there."
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