Talking Dog Blog Speaks out Against Puppy Mills in Missouri ....

Missouri Puppy Mills

Photo courtesy HSUS  

If you're reading the Talking Dogs blog, you're a dog lover.  Like me.  And, like me, you probably find it hard to comprehend any dog living its whole entire life in a small wire cage.  No room to stretch out.  Feet getting caught in the wire grid of the cage.  No human companionship.  No toys.  Being exposed to weather extremes with little or no shelter.  Dodging the rain of urine and feces from other dogs cages stacked above.  Surgical procedures performed by people with no vet training.  This is life for a breeding dog living in a puppy mill.

Puppy mills have been around for a long time.  They exist for one simple reason:  economics.  

I currently live in Missouri which is known as the Puppy Mill Capitol.  Its estimated that over 200,000 dogs live, in conditions like I described above, in my state.  On this page I plan to gather handy links to my previous (and future) blog posts about Missouri Puppy Mills.  Topics include:  MO Prop B, puppy mill rescues, USDA and HSUS reports, and more.

Why am I doing this?  Because I want you to be aware of the ugly truths about puppy mills and join the movement to stop them.
As an introduction, fetch one of our Dog Song Saturday blog posts:  The Puppy Mill Song - A State of Misery.   




Just the Facts

• Pledge to Save Missouri's Puppy Mill Dogs
• Missouri's Hall of Shame Dirty Dozen Worst Puppy Mills in the State 
• Oprah Winfrey's Puppy Mill Expose 
• Stop Puppy Mills - Adopt from a Shelter or Ethical Dog Breeder 
• Missouri's Dirty Dozen HSUS Report Update March 2011
• Missouri Puppy Mills:  Sick Puppies - Dogs and Commercial Breeders (Dirty Dozen Update:  Peggy Ryan, For Heaven's Sale Kennel)
• Missouri Puppy Mills:  Close Up on S and S Family Puppies, Circle B Farms, Brandi Cheney
• Missouri Dirty Dozen:  Puppy Mill Linked to MO Lawmaker Attacking Prop B
• Missouri Dirty Dozen:  B and B Kennel, Beverly Fields Dogs in Freezing Cold 
• Missouri Dirty Dozen:  Urine and Feces Raining Down on the Dogs 
• Missouri Dirty Dozen:  Underweight Dogs, Dying Puppies 
• Missouri Puppy Mills:  Euthanasia Plan - Club the Dogs
• Missouri Puppy Mills:  Botched Home Surgery Performed on Dogs by Breeder
• Puppy Mills and Pet Stores:  How Much is that Doggie in the Window? 
• Puppy Mills:  Living Your Life Entirely in a Cage video of an experiment by Madonna of the Mills
• New Missouri Attorney General Canine Cruelty Prevention Web Site 
• Stump Farms Puppies Lawsuit - violations of the Animal Facilities Act
• Dog Kennels Closing (Aug 2011)
• Canadian  Pet Store Chain Says No More Puppy Mill Puppies (Sep 2011)
• Puppy Mills and Pet Stores (Sep 2011) 
• Puppy Mill Lemon Laws (Sep 2011) 
• A State of Misery, also known as The Puppy Mill Song was our feature for Dog Song Saturdayon Sep 17, 2011.  The name of the song says it all.
• US Pet Stores Take Pledge:  46 pet stores have pledged not to sell puppies.  (Oct 2011)
• White House petition asking for a crack down on puppy mills has gathered more than 10,600 signatures. (Oct 2011)
• USDA will issue new commercial dog breeder rules
• Best Friends Animal Society launches new I Adopted a Puppy Mill Dog Facebook page.
• Macerich Shopping Malls Ban Live Pet Sales - affects more than 70 shopping malls across the United States 
• US Pet Stores Take the HSUS Pledge to not sell puppies. (Oct 2011) 
• White House Petition Signatures number over 10,0000 asking President Obama to crack down on puppy mills.
• MO Puppy Mills:  Some Good News for Dogs MO Dept of Agriculture statistics show dramatic decrease in commercial dog breeders. (Oct 2011)
• Missouri Compromise SB 161 Final Regulations Defined and more. (Dec 2011) 
• Conway Missouri Puppy Mill Closed -  A-Lick-A-Hope Kennels  owner Lori Gross now prohibited from operating any dog breeding facility in Missouri for 10 years. (Feb 2012)