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Not Bulldog Related but sad!

Discussion in 'Dog Discussion' started by rosco91382, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. rosco91382

    rosco91382 Big Dog

    Dogs found kept in filth

    Peotone Investigators: Conditions at puppy mill crowded, unsanitary



    <!-- Article Publsih Date -->March 2, 2008
    <!-- Article By Line -->By Nathaniel Zimmer, STAFF WRITER
    <!-- boxscore --><!-- Article's First Paragraph -->Cook County sheriff's police rescued 49 dogs from what they described as squalid conditions at a puppy mill in Peotone on Saturday.

    The dogs, mostly toy or designer breeds, reportedly were found living in cages stacked four high in a shed warmed by a space heater. Up to seven dogs were crowded into a cage, and many of the animals were found soaked with their own urine, their fur matted with feces, police said.

    Investigators with the sheriff's department said the owner signed the dogs over to them. They said they did not expect to file charges against her for several days, and they would not name her, but they said her business is called Phoebee's Puppies.

    The dogs - Yorkshire terriers, pugs, Chihuahuas, poodles and puggles among them - were brought to the PAWS animal shelter in Tinley Park, where they are to be shaved and washed and shaved again before being offered for adoption within a week or so. An emaciated Yorkie and an emaciated Boston terrier with an open sore on its leg were being examined by a veterinarian Saturday afternoon, said Ruby Wilson, a volunteer humane investigator with the shelter.

    At the shelter, a choking smell and the excited yapping of a number of Yorkies filled one room where many of the dogs were being held.

    "It's heartbreaking," Wilson said. "They're starved for attention. ... They were all very hungry."

    Cook County investigator Larry Draus said he and several colleagues went to the woman's home to check out a tip they had received from the South Suburban Humane Society in Chicago Heights. After they knocked on the woman's door and spoke to her, she voluntarily opened her shed to them, he said.

    "Obviously, she couldn't keep up" with the number of dogs in her care, Draus said. "They're in pretty bad shape." The woman, who did not return a phone call or an e-mail Saturday, was "very cooperative," according to Draus.

    The dogs were being sold for upward of $650 each, according to Wilson, who said she exchanged e-mails with the owner after PAWS received a call from someone who said they had purchased what turned out to be a sick puppy from Phoebee's.

    Wilson said one simple way to avoid purchasing a pet that has been poorly treated is to insist on seeing the environment in which the animal was raised.

    Will County sheriff's police assisted at the scene after being contacted by their Cook County counterparts.

    Draus said investigators left 15 puppies they found inside the woman's home in her care because they were too young to be safely transported.
     

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