ASPCA Puppy Mill Investigation
ASPCA investigators received a call from the Marshall County Prosecutor's Office complaining about a couple who are operating a puppy mill in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Upon arrival, dispatchers from the ASPCA Field Investigations and Response Team were horrified to encounter 95 dogs of different toy breeds in unsanitary and unlivable conditions. All dogs, including the puppies, were seized from the property and the couple, John and Nancy Garrison were charged with 96 counts of animal cruelty leading to 6 months in jail and 12 months of probation.
Puppy mills are operations that are common throughout the United States. Used as breeding stock, these animals are confined in wire cages throughout their entire lives, and being limited to any playful and/or social activity. Many of these dogs live a life of continuous breeding for the purpose of making profit for the selfishness of the human puppy mill operators. Many pet stores are guilty of buying from puppy mills for the sake of selling the high profiting breeds at their stores. Thanks to organizations like the ASPCA (amongst many others), many puppy mills have been raided and ceased, ending just one of the many types of animal abuse and neglect that continues to exist. The ultimate goal of animal activists is to encourage adoption of animals who are "less desirable" or animals who have been seized from previous owners who have abused them in hopes for these animals to get a second chance.
February 5, 2010
ASPCA Puppy Mill Investigation
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