SD Animal Defense Team: January 2012

January 29, 2012

We Are Making a Difference! JOIN US TO BE THE VOICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO VOICE:
PUPPY MILL DOGS! Our next protest will be
SUNDAY February 19, NOON to 2 PM
at PUPPY STAR'S in Clairemont

January 28 Puppy Star's Protest

January 24, 2012

Animal Cruelty in Clairemont

Coming Next Saturday

January 28

Noon to 2 PM

~~~Protest at Puppy Star's~~~

6167 Balboa Ave. in Clairemont

Why this store? This is the biggest puppy store in the city of San Diego. They also own Pet Place on El Cajon Blvd. and have a holding facility for puppies in Oceanside. They are selling puppies online under constantly changing pseudonyms. At last count, it was 18 different litters.

They have been cited for many violations because WE ARE WATCHING THEM.

We have actual photos on this website of puppies being held in their back storage room without water and in plastic bins or wire cages.

They lie about the origin of their puppies and people are beginning to come forward with horror tales about puppies they purchased from this ring of stores who became very sick or actually died. Many purchasers never received information which they were required to be given by law -- such as the name and address of the breeder.

Information:

Be sure to park on side streets, not in the parking lot. Your car is not secure there.

Bring signs if you want or we will also have plenty with us!

Wear your red Animal Defense Team scarves. If you don't have yours yet, we'll have them at the protest.

Bring cameras, video cameras if you have them.

Bring friends and family! The last protest, we were able to line both sides of Balboa AND in front of the store!

Know that for all the puppies not purchased, you are saving lives of the mothers in the puppy mills.

Everyone who believes that puppies shouldn't be sold as a cash crop is WELCOME!

Join the San Diego Animal Defense Team

January 21, 2012

Presenting: the greed that drives the puppy mill business

Expose of the online puppy mill business from the Today show January 2012
Why in the world didn't they also say ADOPT!

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

URGENT! RAIN CANCELS PROTESTS

Both the Skechers/greyhound protest at 10 AM in Pacific Beach and the Puppy Star's Protest at Noon in Clairemont have been cancelled due to rain. Enjoy your day off.

Reschedule: Skechers protest has been rescheduled to 10 AM, Sat. Feb. 4. This is the day before the Super Bowl game and the running of the greyhound ad we are protesting. Meet at Skecher's store, Pacific Beach, Garnet Ave. and Mission Blvd.
Bring your greyhounds!

Our next Puppy Star's protest is next Sat., Jan. 28, Noon - 2 PM, 6167 Balboa Ave.
See you then! Wear your red ADT scarves!

January 19, 2012

Protest the sale of puppy mill pups

Protest animal cruelty in Clairemont

Protest at Puppy Star's

Sat. January 21

Noon - 2 PM

6167 Balboa Ave.

This is a clearcut case of greed trumping compassion.

Puppies don't deserve to be produced as cash crops.

Their mothers don't deserve to be prisoners forever.

Help us speak for them.

January 13, 2012

When: Saturday, January 21, 2012

Time: 10:00am until 12:00pm

Where: The Skechers store at 4475 Mission Blvd. San Diego

(corner of Garnet and Mission Blvd. in Pacific Beach)

Skechers is planning to show a commercial during the Super Bowl that was filmed at a greyhound racing track in Tuscon. We need to tell Skechers that it is not ok to promote greyhound racing. It is a cruel and abusive industry! Bring your greyhound if s/he feels comfortable in public. You can go to http://www.grey2kusa.org/boycottskechers/ to sign an online petition and to email Skechers executives. This event is co-sponsored by the Animal Defense Team!

January 11, 2012

Protest Coming This Sat. January 14

We're heading to Puppy Star's on January 14 (a different location has been cancelled)

Puppy Star's

Sat. January 14

2 PM - 3:30 PM

6167 Balboa Ave.

Clairemont area of San Diego

Please join us there to

stop the vicious cycle of

puppy mills and pet stores!

January 07, 2012

SHAME ON PUPPY STAR'S

These photos were sent to us by an anonymous supporter.
Taken 1-7-11 at Puppy Stars at approximately 3 PM.
This is the back room. Three Boxer pups are being held there in a
plastic crate and two Goldens in the cage.
Absolutely disgusting and inhumane.
The photographer said the stench was overwhelming. There was a pile of used newspaper shreddings on the floor and used syringes on the sink. We understand they had been held like this for at least 3 hours and perhaps much longer. The Boxers have no access to water. The water bowl in the Golden's cage is empty. These are babies -- they especially need constant access to water! They are in such a small amount of space they have to be sleeping and standing in their own waste.
SHAME ON PUPPY STARS.

Puppy Star's -- January 7 Protest!

Great way to start the New Year!
Everyone is wearing their new Superhero red capes of courage
(Animal Defense Team scarves)

January 06, 2012

Superheros Needed!

Animal Rights SUPERHEROES needed for the Puppy Star's protest tomorrow. Capes will be provided!

Saturday, January 7
Noon to 2 PM, 6167 Balboa Ave.

Wall of Shame: These San Diego Stores Sell Puppies

The Animal Defense Team has targeted the stores listed in red with protests.

San Diego Puppy

5825 Mission Gorge Rd.

David Salinas is selling puppy mill puppies in this storefront and online.
His Horton Plaza kiosk was cancelled the day before our big protest there. Surprise! We are continuing to monitor Horton Plaza to be sure no other puppy stores open there. We have been protesting and doing educational outreach at this store since May, 2012. Please join us at our events.

Puppy Star's CLOSED MARCH 2012!!!

6167 Balboa Ave.

Clairemont

+ Naedeen's Puppies -- owned by Puppy Star's CLOSED MARCH 2012!!!

1021 S. Coast Highway

Oceanside

+ Pet Place -- owned by Puppy Star's CLOSED 2012!!!

6512 El Cajon Blvd.

San Diego

Lemon Grove Pets

7034 Broadway

Lemon Grove, CA 91945

619-460-1965

My Puppy Closed! This store has shut down. If you hear of it reopening in a different location, please let us know. 7770 Vickers St. Ste. 101, San Diego 92111

California Pets at North County Fair, Escondido

California Pets 2525 El Camino Real, Carlsbad (Plaza Camino Real)

Pet Works CLOSED DECEMBER 2010! Grossmont Center Shopping Mall, La Mesa

Fiesta Pet Shop 1145 Highland Ave., National City

Noy's Pet Shop 2550 Imperial Ave.

Pet Market 1536 Sweetwater Rd., National City

Puparazzi -- CLOSED SEPTEMBER, 2011!!! Woo Hoo! Mission Valley Shopping Center

Pups & Pets 50 Town Center Parkway Santee, CA

Please help us keep up-to-date on current stores selling puppies on San Diego County! Thanks

From Sourcewatch.com: USDA

USDA certified puppy mills There are only about a hundred USDA inspectors to monitor 10,000 facilities across the country, ranging from research labs to zoos. Furthermore, "standards" are abysmal. Federal guidelines allow a medium sized terrier to be kept in a cage the size of a clothes drier for its entire life. The federal Animal Welfare Act is hardly the gold standard for compassion. For example, the act does not say you cannot have 300 dogs confined to cages for their entire lives; never to be taken for a walk or receive any personal attention, let alone be a part of a family. A breeder passes USDA muster as long as the dog has food, water and enough space to turn around. USDA standards are very minimal. Adhering to them does not prove that a breeder is not a puppy mill. Even more so, since even these standards are often not enforced. Many licensed breeders for large chains like Petland, have significant violations. [12]

Prisoners of Greed Compassionate Vet Pledge

We are researching which San Diego County veterinarians partner with local puppy stores and will be posting them to this website soon. We will also present provide those vets with puppy mill information, ask them to reconsider their alignment with pet stores selling puppies, and give them the opportunity to sign the Compassionate Vet Pledge.

Compassionate Vet Pledge
Most dogs in puppy mills live their entire lives in wire bottom cages, they are bred when they are six months old, bred every time they come into season, never allowed out of the cage to exercise, not provided quality food or medical care, left outside in the winter and summer without heat or air-conditioning and killed when they do not produce. Certainly veterinarians who are dedicated to the care of animals would object to these practices.

The Federal Animal Welfare Act requires that a veterinarian prepare a vet plan. Without a plan, the kennel can not obtain a license from the United States Department of Agriculture. If every vet in this country, stood for compassion and refused to be the vet of record for a commercial kennel or a pet store that sells dogs/puppies, no commercial kennels could operate.

Download the USDA Policy on Vet Requirements

We are asking all vets to sign the Pledge of Compassion. Every vet who signs the Pledge will receive a framed Certificate of Compassion to hang in their office. The vets will also be featured on this website and recommended as Compassionate Vets. Clients can then determine whether their vet is a Compassionate Vet who will stand up against the misery created in commercial kennels.

Print the pledge and take it to your vet. Have them sign it. Send us a copy and also send it to the Coalition Against Misery Box 343 Pocopson, PA 19366. They will send them the framed certificate and some Prisoners of Greed brochures to display in their office.

Will your vet stand up for the dogs?

Download the Pledge

What is a Puppy Mill?

The term is used by Humane Societies, the ASPCA and the community to indicate USDA kennels that commercially raise wholesale dogs with profit instead of the welfare of the animals as their primary objective. The dogs are farmed as a cash crop.

Animal Planet says it's now a one billion dollar industry with brokers, breeders and pet stores getting rich off of the unbelievable suffering of the dogs in the breeding mills. Under the USDA standard of care, the breeding dogs -- the mothers of the puppies -- NEVER get out of their cages, are housed in wire crates, often stacked so that the dogs on the bottom tier live in terrible stench and filth with no human contact, and receive only enough food and water to be kept alive. YES THIS IS LEGAL, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT HUMANE.

The HSUS: "The kennel conditions in which puppies are bred and raised are deliberately kept from consumers."

Missouri Puppy Mill Bust/Support Prop B!

71 Dogs Removed from Missouri Puppy Mill; Help Support Prop. B!

On September 21, the ASPCA Field Investigations and Response Team in conjunction with the Humane Society of Missouri (HSMO) removed 71 dogs from an overrun puppy mill in Camden County, MO. The dogs—who include Dachshunds, Maltese, Shih Tzus, Lhasa Apsos, Huskies and Boxers—were transferred to the Humane Society of Southwest Missouri in Springfield and HSMO in St. Louis, where they received medical treatment and will be cared for until they’re ready for adoption.
“This case was unique in that the dogs were voluntarily relinquished by the kennel owner who could no longer afford to feed them,” explains Tim Rickey, ASPCA Senior Director of Field Investigations and Response. Last week the mill owner contacted a local rescue group, Half-way Home Pet Rescue in Cedar County, for help, and Half-way Home then reached out to the ASPCA.
“When breeders are no longer able to care for their animals, the problem lands squarely on the shoulders of local shelters,” says Half-way Home’s Latisha Duffy, who works closely with breeders in Missouri to find homes for retired breeding dogs.
Known as the “Puppy Mill Capital of America,” Missouri is home to more than 3,000 commercial dog breeding facilities and supplies more than 40 percent of all dogs sold in pet stores nationwide. “We see some of the worst conditions in Missouri puppy mills,” explains Rickey. “The dogs, often very ill, are forced to live in overcrowded, filthy conditions.”
In an effort to end the many cruelties associated with puppy mills, the ASPCA, a founding member of Missourians for the Protection of Dogs/YES! on Prop. B, is supporting Proposition B, also known as the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act. This landmark measure, which will appear on the state’s November ballot, promotes the humane treatment of dogs in Missouri’s large-scale commercial breeding kennels. If passed, Prop B would limit the number of breeding dogs to 50 per facility, and would require large-scale breeders to sufficient food, water and space for the animals under their care.
To learn how to extend your support for Proposition B, please visit our Puppy Mill section on ASPCA.org.

The Truth About Horse Racing

Last year's shameful death list of horses who died racing at Del Mar:

Mr. Napper Tandy
Pocosin's Game Boy
I Want My Money
Mi Rey
Sovine
Peanut Ridge
Maggie and Hopie
Insider
Mad for Plaid
Pauper's Prize
Zetta's Corridor
Endless Moon
Madame Kiawah

Last year (2009) 230 horses died at California race tracks, including the 13 at Del Mar. The evidence is clear: the industry is breeding speed over soundness. Horse's bones, tendons and ligaments cannot hold up to the extreme punishment of racing and horses are paying for it with their lives.

The Animal Defense Team doesn't think this qualifies as either "sport" or entertainment. Do you?

Horses are being trained and raced as two-year-olds, before they are fully mature. Drugs mask problems like pain and bleeding into the lungs, pushing them beyond their physical limits. Lasix, phenylbutazme and corticosteroids are legally used across the country. Drugs keep horses on the racetrack even when they shouldn't be racing.

Losers or injured horses are quickly discarded and sent to the slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. Since 1980, the Equine Protection Network states more than 4 million horses have been barbarically slaughtered. The Humane Society of the US estimates at least 11,000 a year.

Racehorses are the victims of an industry based on greed, drugging, deception and death.
Del Mar. CRUEL AS EVER.

PET STORE DOUBLESPEAK

They say: "Our puppies come from breeders, not puppy mills." The word "breeder" isn't an exclusive term. Anyone who produces puppies is technically a breeder. A responsible breeder would never sell her puppies to a pet store.
They say: "All our puppies come from USDA facilities, so we know they are not from puppy mills." Being USDA licensed doesn't mean that the business is not a puppy mill. There are hundreds of USDA-licensed puppy mills in operation that have long lists of violations and problems. A USDA license is required for anyone who is a commercial breeder producing dogs for wholesale.
They say: "We only deal with breeders we know." The store's definition of "knowing" a breeder often just means that they have been receiving shipments of puppies from the same place repeatedly, not that anyone from the store has ever visited the breeder's facility or inspected their records.
They say: "Our puppies come with a health certificate from a licensed veterinarian." A health certificate only means that the puppy has had a brief "wellness" exam by a vet. This exam doesn't include testing for genetic disorders, or testing for diseases such as Giardia and Brucellosis, both of which are contagious to humans and are frequently seen in puppy mill pups.

Congratulations! These Stores Have Signed A Puppy Friendly Pet Store Pledge

Pet Stop, 7490 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla
Noah's Natural Pet Market,4431CassSt.,PB
San Diego Pet Supply, 1490 Island Ave., SD