Puppy Mills are Bad

First, let me say how sorry I am for being a bad blogger. I've been so busy since Labor Day that I just haven't had a chance to sit down at the computer. Actually, I hardly have time to sit down anyway. There's always something that needs my attention.

That said, I wanted to let you know that there has been a bunch of news about puppy mills lately. The most recent story is in Newsweek Magazine. As you know, I was born in a puppy mill in Ohio and rescued at a puppy sale by an undercover rescuer. I'm very glad I was rescued! Because the breeder was going to keep me as a puppy-making machine.

You see, I was born with an umbilical hernia. The puppy mill owner said that no pet store wanted to buy me because of the defect. He told the rescuer that he was just going to keep me for breed stock. Well... my rescuer told him that he really didn't want to do that because there was a chance that my hernia could be passed on to my puppies. (This has not been proven to be the case, but he believed her anyway.)

So, that was how I came to be rescued. The breeder was an idiot and sold me to the rescuer because he thought I was going to be more trouble than I was worth. As you'll see when you read the article, these puppy mill owners really have no concept of humanity when it comes the animals. They think of us only as a commodity with which to make money.

You can help by writing letters to the editor and writing to your representative in Congress. Please help. I was a very lukcy little girl and I have more love than a puppy mill pug could have ever dreamed. But for every one of us that gets rescued there are hundreds that aren't so lucky.