QUOTE (Chance @ Apr 2 2009, 01:18 PM)
Pretty sure I know who you are. Sorry for ending it abrubtly but we were wasting our time there and I was getting ticked. A main problem besides the Ag Committee is the Bureau of Dog Law. The Bureau of Dog Law doesn't enforce the laws we already have and THAT'S the biggest part of the problem.
As long as Dog Law refuses to do their job and close these he!! holes down, it doesn't even matter that 2525 passed - new laws won't help if the people who have the power to shut these places down turn a blind eye to animal cruelty and behave as though they're glorified building inspectors.
It is my understanding that the U.S.D.A. is responsible for these inspections and they have their hands full with inspecting meat plants, circus animal violations, farms,etc. One inspector had a journalist in tow, and the Mennonite puppy mill operator, took a rifle out along with a vicious german shepard and threatened her off the property! Our government doesn't provide enough funding to hire more people to inspect these Hell Holes! (Let's see if I get a couple of exclamation points to cover up the word Hell!) What I would like to know, and maybe someone can help me out here, is this! Who is making this puppy mill business so lucrative? These a-holes are making so much money off of these dogs, they are paying off everybody! Politicians, judges, vets. Lancaster is a breeding ground for two reasons, the Amish, who don't give a crap about animals, not to mention their daughters who get raped on a daily basis by fathers, brothers, and dare I say Bishops! Lancaster is a major trucking hub because of it's location, 2 hours from several major cities, New York, Baltimore, New Jersey, Philly, and many more. Who is buying these dogs? Labratories? Unknowing families looking for a cute pet? These mills are bringing in 500,00 a year and more in most cases, but whose buying the dogs?
I find it hard to believe it is simply pet stores, because most people I know with dogs have stopped getting their pets that way.In fact, that practice fell by the wayside years ago, and yet the profits continue to flow. Some great writer needs to write a screenplay about all of this, not Paris Hilton's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which just brings more wrong attention to the problem, when kids insist on one after seeing how cute they are! No, what we need is someone to write a screenplay about the Amish and yes Mennonite puppy mills! A movie where the hero sneaks a camera into those barns, and films the horror. Someone who follows the trucks and finds out where all the puppies end up. With all the surveillance these days, that shouldn't be so hard to do. You don't even want to hear what I would like to do to Samuel King. But, let's just say I was writing the screenplay. Let's just say, we had him all roped up and in front of the cages. And then we let the dogs out. Let's just say there wouldn't be much left of the pious guy. You know,as Weird Al Yankovic says, in his infamous song, Amish Paridise, "I'm the guy all the omelettes wanna be like, on my knees scoring points for the afterlife". I personally like the song, "Who let the dogs out?"
