Nightline on ABC, will be featuring a story tonight on puppymills. The segment on tonight’s show (11:35 EST) will focus on puppymills in Lancaster County, PA, the puppymill capital of the East Coast. An ABC correspondent will be interviewing an Amish breeder in his puppymill. This is a first for television.
You can catch the Nightline segment here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBygZ4z_V9w
Investigators from Nightline traveled throughout Lancaster County to show you, the homeviewer, an insider’s viewer of these horrific breeding facilities.
From what I am hearing, this show should be quite informative and enlightening to those who don’t understand what puppymills are all about. These poor dogs have to live under the most unspeakable conditions all in the name to produce millions of puppies each year for pet stores where you ,,the consumer purchase them.
Please watch this show and tell others who haven’t a clue where the parents of the puppies they purchased from pet stores live and under what conditions.
I, like many others, who are quite aware of the horrors of puppymills, have been so touched by something I received from my friend, Linda Eroh. Linda is a volunteer with a Tail to Tell. A Tail to Tell is an animal rescue organization that saves the lives of dogs that once lived in puppymills. They do wonderful work with these dogs.
During the process of rescuing dogs from puppymills, the chains around their necks were removed with a bolt cutter. Part of those chains are attached to bracelets that are handmade. I am the recipient of one such bracelet. Due to a computer glitch, I am unable to show you a photo of it.
These bracelets are a tribute to those dogs who recieved their freedom just like Linda’s own dog, Sammy, an 12 yr. old Sheltie, who is finally freed from the prison of a puppymill.
I need to give Linda a sincere thank you for this bracelet. I am so honored to have received it. And I want to thank Linda for all the wonderful work she has done for puppymill dogs. I will cherish this bracelet, Linda.