Please Read This For The Sake of Puppy Mill Dogs.

My eyes have finally dried up from crying at what I saw on the video of a puppy mill in Wayne County, NC. The 20 rescuers were tending to emaciated dogs with untreated lacerations, severely matted fur and serious skin and eye infections. The dogs had been living in unheated cages inside unventilated barns and outhouses. There were 300 dogs.

I just sat and cried at the horror I saw. There was a female Lhasa Apso, that couldn't see, from severe eye infections, no hair, due to severe skin problems, with one, tiny, tiny newborn puppy. She was so intent on doing her "job," of nursing this poor, poor pup, that when they took the newborn, she became frantic, so they gave the baby back to her, trying to keep her calm. I just cried and cried. I am starting to cry again, writing this.

Amanda Arrington of the Humane Society of the United States, placed calls to 2 people that were either Congressmen or Senators of that district and insisted they come to that facility and see, first hand, what was happening in their districts. They came and they saw the horror, and now are acting on it. I wish our legislators would do the same. I am going to contact the HSUS's John Goodwin, and see what I have to do to get video of the 1000 dogs that were rescued from the kennel in Parkersburg, and any other video they have of kennels in our state. I know they have them, so I can take it to Congressman Rahall. If possible, the Governor.

People, just because you see cute, pretty little puppies in a pet store, doesn't mean that they came from a "jolly, happy" place. They didn't. The puppies are the lucky ones. They get out of a life of just getting bred and bred and bred, until they are no longer viable breeding machines and then they are killed, usually very inhumanely. This happens, this is reality. Please go to this website and view the video on the puppy mill bust in NC. http://www.hsus.org/.

It is hard to watch, but it needs to be seen by everyone. Oprah had a great expose' on puppy mills last year, and I think it needs to be re-aired. We are such that if we don't see it, it doesn't exist. I am sorry, but that is how I feel most people are. "If I don't know about it, it doesn't concern me." "Someone else will take care of it." "I don't want to get involved. I might make someone mad." These are things that people say. And that is why these horrid people get away with what they do with the dogs that they breed to death and are nothing more to them than a "cash crop."

Please, please go to the website and watch the video. I implore you. For the animals sake!!