what steps do i need to take to bring down a puppy mill in sharon springs ny
the people that run this mill live in squaller themselves. the kennels are up on a hill so i cant get a good look at the conditions of the animals, but if its anything like the house i know there must be some sort of law that prohibits this kind of cruelty. we are at our wits end to get this place closed down. after oprah did her puppy mill story in penn. now the mills are taking over upstate ny. i live in a town of about 2300 people and we already have 2 puppy mills, and one that got turned down by the zoning board. one of the problems we have here is that no one is educated on the cruelty of these mills. i myself have 2 puppy mill dogs and another one that was duct taped to the bottom of a cardboard box and left by a dumpster, he came to my home with hardly any hair left on him from them removing the tape, and he was quite vicious, and i had alot of bite marks to prove it. now hes doing great and sticking to me like velcro. my puppy mill dogs which are all chihuahuas, one has a collapsed tracea, and the other one is huge, and very timid. this has got to stop. i need help to start the prosses of ending this cruelty. i had another dog that has since passed that i rescued from a crack house in paterson, nj where she was pregnant twice a year for 7 years, never touched grass, never had a kind hand touch her, but her puppys were worth $2000-$3000 a piece because she was a english red nosed pit bull. because of this and the fact that she wasnt spayed till she was 8 (she came to me pregnant) she died of mammory cancer. my vet said that since she was spayed at such an older age thats what caused the cancer. im now involved in rescue group called forgotten friends pet rescue, where we rescue horses, goats, pigs, donkeys, ducks, cats,, and dogs. another question i would like to ask is how does a smaller rescue group like ourselves get money to help feed all these animals. like i said before the people up here have no idea about animal cruelty. this last winter was hell. at this moment im $500 minus in my bank account. lately we've had to turn down some horses that are so thin you can see every bone in its body, i would say about 200 pounds underweight. but we're considered a small rescue group, but no matter how small we are we still need to feed the animals we have. we need help with trying to shut downn this puppy mill, and im told the only way to do that is to have the aspca go to the property and close it down themselves. and as per our lack of money to feed our animals. i will take any suggestion you have.
thank you very much
susan macfarlane
886 chestnut st
sharon springs, ny 13459
518-284-2181
