Puppy mills 101: what you can do about Ohio puppy mills (What the title should have read).

This is a picture of a puppy mill in Missouri.
sick_mill.jpg <Click to enlarge>.

Can you imagine the poor animals who had to suffer there? Unfortunately there are tons of these places in Missouri, throughout Cleveland and northern and southern Ohio, and across the Midwest.

Ohio’s Puppy Mill Bill will end the torture, abuse and brutality against dogs in puppy mills in the state.

Ohio is 2nd only to Missouri in its number of puppy mills (11,000 kennels statewide) and is reported to have the worst mill conditions of any state in the U.S.

With common sense standards, the Ohio puppy mill bill will regulate high volume dog breeders who house dogs in filthy, inhumane, cramped conditions that contribute to congenital diseases, high medical bills and behavior issues.

The statewide enforcement authority will conduct bi-annual inspections. Standards will insure dogs used for breeding in Ohio have medical attention, clean living environments, exercise and socialization.

This will protect Ohio’s consumers from undue veterinary expenses and promote public safety by encouraging behaviorally well adjusted puppies.

Ohio law does not protect the public from puppies living in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions where genetic diseases and stress/behavior issues from illness, injury and neglect are being sold to an unsuspecting public. Responsible breeders already exceed standards set forth in the legislation.

We need your help to pass this bill. Please contact your state rep & state senator to let them know you want this bill for a safe and humane Ohio. For more info, go here: Columbus Dog Connection.

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Puppy Mills breed misery, boycott pet stores that sell puppies. Adopt! Don't Shop

I'm from Ohio. And yes, puppy mills are a huge problem here. I know surprisingly little about this bill, though. It wasn't well publicized in our local papers.

If you ask me, it's not only puppy mills that's are bad. We also have backyard breeders up the wazoo and idiots who neglect to fix their pets. Puppies and kittens galore!
I volunteer at an animal shelter. We have to put down older animals because we simply don't have room to keep them all.
And then I go home and read an ad on Craigslist where some idiot bred their lab to their buddy's golden and is now selling the pups as $500 designer mixes.

Good grief. It makes me feel like screaming.

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these cases are just horrible - i wish you could just knock the idiots heads together to try and make them see sence and relise what suffering their doing to the poor aniamls!

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