Guest guest Posted March 1, 2001 Report Share Posted March 1, 2001 This takes LESS than a minute to do--all you have to do is visit their website and register your disapproval of this horrible practice. Please forward to all the animal lovers in your life!! Lee Wheeler is an attorney - she is also the daughter of Carol Wheeler who runs Hearts United for Animals, the sanctuary in Auburn, Nebraska. Lee has been spearheading the fight against some of the absolute worst of the puppymills - those located in Lancaster County, PA. Please support this petition in any way you can. If you belong to lists, newsgroups or bulletin boards please post her message. Thanks VK Friends, It has become obvious in dealing with the officials in Pennsylvania that they will not make any effort to help the dogs in puppymills because the dogs don't vote or have money to donate to political campaigns. (Just this week a politician told me that the only way that they were even going to enforce the law that currently exists, much less change the law, is if it was important to people who donated a lot of money to political campaigns). It is critically important that we can show them that there are an enormous number of people who care about the dogs and those people do vote. It is important to show the officials that people will not visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania until something is done to stop the suffering. We have to show that if they allow the puppymills to continue, the county and the businesses will be hurt financially. Money is the only language that they understand. For anyone not familiar with puppymills in Pennsylvania please visit http://www.hua.org and click on 'Prisoners of Greed'. In Pennsylvania the majority of puppymills are concentrated in one single county - Lancaster County. The officials refuse to enforce the law there because they are blinded by the Pet Breeders Association and the Farm Bureau who throw around a lot of money in political campaigns. The man in charge of the state agency that is supposed to enforce the law has said that he will not enforce it in Lancaster County. The conditions of the mills are horrible. The majority of the mills are operated by people who are of the Amish or Mennonite religious beliefs and therefore usually do not have electricity. So the majority of the kennels do not have have heat or air conditioning. There are small short haired dogs out in wooden boxes in below zero temperatures today. These dogs are bred over and over until they die. If they don't die, they are sold to research labs when they no longer make money for the kennel. Should you have any thoughts about Amish and Mennonite people having compassion for their animals, you only have to read the article in the local newspaper today that talks about a 13 year old sheltie kept in a kennel piled with feces for 9 years, never one time ever getting out of the cage in 9 years. When he was rescued he was lame and limped in circles because he had gone round and round in circles out of boredom in the cage for 9 years. I have personally been to the kennels in Lancaster County. I have seen and touched the dogs and can describe the conditions from my own personal observation. Any description I could give would not even begin to describe how terribly the dogs suffer. I have set up an on line petition so that peoples' voices can be heard. It's very easy and will only take a second of your time. Just go to http://www.hua.org/Prison/millpetition1.html and fill in a few blanks. Please forward this email to every person, egroup, mailing list that you know. It's critically important that we have a huge response. Thanks so much, Lee Wheeler Hearts United for Animals http://www.hua.org The Sirius Shoppe http://www.ihelppets.com The store for animal lovers where all the profit goes to shut down puppymills. --- 20 email addresses from 15,000 domain names - free at http://www.another.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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