Blog Entries ( ASPCA )

More puppies are sold at pet stores during the holiday season than any other time of year. Now the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other groups are stepping up efforts to stop these sales, saying many of these dogs come from puppy mills. For example, 40 billboards in Los Angeles this month encourage people to fight puppy mills ...

She was a Yellow Lab. White in color. Born with a beautiful face, she was ideal for breeding. A money maker. Years later, she would have a belly that hung down, like she had been born with extra skin. Lots and lots of puppies had been carried in that belly. Her face bore the scars of a dog squabble or two, perhaps a fight ...

Recently, Texas passed a bill that establishes minimum standards for the human handling, care, housing, and transportation of dogs and cats by breeders of large-scale commercial breeding facilities, aka “puppy mills.” Texas commercial dog and cat breeders have always operated free of state oversight, meaning the animals at most of these facilities are unprotected. The Commercial Dog and Cat Breeders Act (CDCBA) was signed into law ...

This charming children's story, Park Avenue Pound Puppy, is about a little girl named Anabella who falls in love with Gillman, a pink-nosed Chihuahua puppy that she finds in a New York pet store. Anabella's mom and dad buy her the puppy, but things take a turn for the worse when Anabella becomes too busy to take care of her pooch, and ...

Important laws protecting dogs and other animals are threatened by proposed funding cuts to federal programs in the 2012 federal budget. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for enforcing several critical animal welfare laws, including the Animal Welfare Act, the Horse Protection Act and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, is at risk of being slashed in next year’s budget.  Strong enforcement of these laws ...