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Published February 12, 2010

Letter - Protect the puppies and kittens chat

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Evangline S.
02/12/2010 9:35 PM

Sara, although the pet store is a separate issue, it truly does have a connection to the needed regulation of puppy and kitten mills as the great majority of the animals offered for sale come from these facilities. Getting these bills passed is a huge step in the right direction and can pave the way for regulation of pet stores as well. There are so many reasons to support this bill in additional to animal welfare. The loss of an estimated 2.9 million dollars in uncollected sales tax and the public health concern of these unhealthy animals bringing diseases and parasites, such as ringworm and giardia, into homes, just to name a couple. Please take the time to contact Rep. Otremba and Senator Ingebrigtsen let them know how important these bills are, they need to hear from you.

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Casey O.
02/12/2010 8:16 PM

Thanks Like-minded for the animalfolk link. I watched those videos. Just so sad. I'm going to post them to my facebook along with the info in this letter. Everybody should do this to get the word out. It's amazing the web of people out there on facebook. If you're too embarrassed to post that site and videos on your facebook, then that should tell you that those puppymills shouldn't exist. Let's all do right buy these animals that have no voice and in memory of the millions that lived that life and have died. If you don't have facebook, get one. It's free and simple to do.

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Casey O.
02/12/2010 8:09 PM

Sara said, I wish I had the money and facility to take all those animals away........... Sara, that's just what they want you to do, feel sorry for them, buy them and then they breed more. If people really want to help those animals, don't buy them. No sales, no more breeding. If you see sickly ones, call the shelter and they will help on what to do. Do NOT buy it, they'll just laugh their way to the bank and make more dogs to live in that life of misery to replace the one you just bought.

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Kay P.
02/12/2010 7:11 PM

ARGH, don't even get me started about that pet store.

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Sara A.
02/12/2010 7:07 PM

b.a.c., I'm not sure if it's the same owners either. The cats that I've seen at the pet store in the mall are usually about $90. Some of them have yellow gunk in their eyes, and one of them I saw a few months ago could barely open one eye. I wish those animals could be taken out of that place to someplace better. I know people who have reported that pet store, but apparently it hasn't done any good.

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b.a. c.
02/12/2010 6:28 PM

Sara, that's right. I don't know if that place is run by the same people who had that store where the eye clinic is now, but $45 for what amounts to a 'barn cat' is stupid. Got mine for nothing, just had to ask around, and after 8 years, he's about the best gato that I've ever had. The $45 I would of spent in a place like that more than covered getting him neutered and his first rabies shot.

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Sara A.
02/12/2010 5:32 PM

There needs to be more done to about places like the pet store in the mall. That place is sad. The smell of feces constantly fill that place. The poor dogs locked in little cages so sad and surrounded in feces. Or the several full grown cats that spend all day in a little cage. The prices are so ridiculous for an animal that usually looks sickly and isn't even a purebred. I wish I had the money and facility to take all those animals away.

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Like-minded extreme right wing lemming. I.
02/12/2010 11:59 AM

Here is the video from the puppy mill called Pick Of The Litter in New York Mills: --- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2060106410193885747&hl=en# --- But hey...there's a great 612 foot, $667.000.00, DNR rule breaking fishing pier in Staples MN. The dedication for this example of wasteful government spending is being held on June 14th. We should all be so proud.

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Kay P.
02/12/2010 9:47 AM

Is like her reason that the pier in Dower Lake was a good example of spending the people's money? To anyone following the HORROR of that puppy mill in NYM, MN and woman who STILL runs it, this is horrible to think that while they are regulating the CRAP out of farmers...someone with reduced ethics can inflict that kind of inhumane treatment on animals sold to be family pets. They didn't stop her...and even if they will not renew her license this year...she can STILL SELL those poor puppies ONLINE.

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Like-minded extreme right wing lemming. I.
02/12/2010 9:06 AM

DFL Rep. Otremba doesn't appear to have a problem with puppies and kittens living in those conditions because she chose not to pass the bill last year. Her reason at the time didn't make a whole lot of sense. I wonder what her excuse will be this time around. Below is a link with video from Puppy Mills. Decide for yourself. Is this acceptable to you? http://www.animalfolksmn.org/videos.html

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