901 Buchanan Ave
Lancaster, PA 17603
USA
Puppy Mill Awareness Day (PMAD) began in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 2003 and started a plethora of awareness days around nation and the world. For several years no events were held in Lancaster County for puppy mill awareness.
This year, the free event, A Day of Hope and Help for the Mill Dogs, will be held at 901 Buchanan Avenue, Buchanan Park, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603. It runs from 10 AM – 3PM.
According to Carol Araneo-Mayer, organizer of this year’s event and one of the original PMAD organizers, “A Day of Hope and Help for the Mills is focused on education.” Many of the rescue groups in attendance are “hands-on” according to Mayer. There will be 57 rescues and vendors at the event.
“We are in the heart of downtown Lancaster at Buchanan Park across from Franklin and Marshall College. This event is family and child friendly with a very large craft area and face painting for the kids. We are going to have a Survivor and Friends Parade which is being lead by Libre the most famous puppy mill pup in recent history.” Directly after the parade, there will be a Blessing of the animals by father Rob and Rev Lauren from St. James Episcopal Church.
Visit www.puppymillawarenessaap.org for more information.
Puppy mill is a term used by many animal advocates/activists to describe the commercial breeding facilities where dogs are bred for their puppies who are sold at pet stores and/or over the internet. According to the USDA which regulates and licenses the mills, the dogs are defined as livestock! As livestock, the mill owners don’t view the dogs as pets or family members as so many of us do. They are forced to live in small cages/kennels for their entire lives with little or no human contact. When the dogs are no longer considered “viable” to the mill owners, they are disposed of and not in a humane manner.
There are two answers to stop puppy mills – Do not shop for a puppy at a pet store ever! Do not purchase a puppy over the internet from a breeder who has multiple breeds of puppies for sale. This is a puppy mill. When you buy a puppy from them, you are helping the mills stay in business and contributing to the hell these dogs must be forced to endure.
We have weak laws on the books to “protect” dogs in commercial kennels. However, the laws aren’t stopping these innocent dogs from living in the most deplorable conditions, with no social interaction, treated like a cash crop and horribly treated when they are destroyed. Unless those dogs are fortunate enough to be saved by an animal rescue, the lives of these dogs are doomed from the start.
Commercial kennels aka puppy mills must be outlawed! There is no other way to stop this madness.
Adopt, Don’t Shop!
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