Category Archives: Animal Rights Activism

Why we fight!

During World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a series of films called “Why We Fight” for the general public to educate them about why the war was necessary – essentially by spotlighting how awful the Nazis and Japanese were – so that Americans could understand the gravity of the global situation and steel themselves […]

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What We’re Going to Have to Deal With

So the dogs that are being auctioned off on Saturday are now online.  Wow, what a frightening list!  If you can believe this, there are 15 pages (!) worth of dogs being auctioned, almost all of which have sired or whelped dozens of puppies since the mill started operating about 7 years ago.  Many, many […]

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A Horrible Website

If you want to be horrified, go to kennelspotlight.com.  It’s written from the perspective of a puppy mill owner/breeder and is as you would expect.  Perusing the articles on the front page make clear that kennel and mill owners view their animals as just that, animals, meant to live in the wild, prey on weaker […]

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Insomnia

1:34 AM – I cannot sleep. I just keep thinking about the puppy mill/dog auction on Friday and Saturday. I just hope that Zoey’s parents are not going to bring a ton of money as a ton of money we don’t have. I just have this fear that some puppy miller in overalls or something […]

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Nervous

So by this point next week I will be at the puppy auction bidding on Zoey’s Mom and Dad. I cannot publish this blog yet as there is a chance as the word could get to Missouri. I doubt Evelyn really cares as long as her dogs bring good money. I hav been watching videos […]

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Making plans for a trip back home

So when I lived in the South/Midwest I had no idea it was the Puppy Mill capital of the world. It wasn’t something anybody ever talked about really.  Now there were a multitude of dogs/puppies always for sale in the paper.  BUT, you will find that in any local or national newspaper.  I realized my […]

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