Animal Defense Team

Greetings From the San Diego Animal Defense Team

Never, never be afraid to do what is right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way- Martin Luther King

Are you ready for action? We are! The San Diego Animal Defense Team has a great campaign-in-progress, with our first protest on Sat. January 7. We will keep you informed with a calendar of protests on this site.

We are pushing hard for an ordinance to ban puppy stores and have that as our primary goal in 2012. We are working in coalition with APRL and also still anticipate that Band of Mercy will be down from LA to join us. We will keep you informed of the progress of our law suit when the court date is set.

As we begin our 4th year together, we end 2011 on a wonderful string of successes. We began the year celebrating the closing of the Pet Works store in Grossmont Center, site of dozens of our protests, and in quick succession:

*organized (with Ferdinand's Familia) a successful donation of supplies for the Black Hat Humane Society, the only rescue group on the vast Navajo reservation

*celebrated the closing of Puparazzi, the Mission Valley Shopping Center puppy store, site of several of our protests

*completed our Spring protest campaign at the California Pets store in Escondidio, with an extensive investigation of a large number of their puppy mill breeders (see postings in our archives)

*put a public face on media and Board of Directors complaints concerning the controversial leadership of the San Diego Humane Society with a protest in front of the facility (We are encouraged that a subsequent change in leadership may be taking the SD organization in a more open direction.)

*continued our annual horseracing protest with the August action during the California Classic race at the Del Mar Racetrack

*pressured San Diego's Horton Plaza to abandon the mall's agreement with San Diego Puppy, an online seller of puppies

*launched our current campaign at Puppy Star's during their opening week in August.

This site has extensive documentation of our actions and information about the issues we address. Please browse and check out older posts for research and information about puppy mills and pet stores and other animal rights issues.

Thanks for supporting us and being members of the Animal Defense Team. Together, we will continue to stand on the frontlines of the rights of animals to be free from suffering at the hands of humans.

We are fighting a multi-million $$$ industry that has paid Washington lobbyists, and is based on the most heinous animal abuse and cruelty.

The corporations --pet store breeders, brokers, owners -- have hundreds of lobbyists. The animals have only us.

Contact us at sd_adt@yahoo.com

ANYONE WHO BUYS A PET STORE PUPPY IS GUILTY OF ANIMAL ABUSE!

Upcoming Action Calendar

Puppy Star's store Sat. January 14 -- Protest 2 - 3:30 PM
RAINED OUT -- SEE FEB 4! Sat. January 21 -- Protest against greyhound racing 10 AM - Noon at Skechers
RAINED OUT! Puppy Star's store Sat. January 21 -- Protest Noon - 2 PM
Puppy Star's store Sat. January 28 -- Protest Noon - 2 PM
Protest SKECHERS greyhound ad for Superbowl! Sat., Feb. 4 10 AM - Noon at Skechers in Pacific Beach, Mission Blvd. and Garnet
Puppy Star's store Sun. February 19 -- Protest Noon - 2 PM
Puppy Star's store Sun. February 26 -- Protest Noon - 2 PM

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.

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Let them know you do NOT want pet stores to be allowed to sell puppies in San Diego!

EMAIL LIST - sherrilightner@sandiego.gov, kevinfaulconer@sandiego.gov, toddgloria@sandiego.gov, anthonyyoung@sandiego.gov, carldemaio@sandiego.gov, loriezapf@sandiego.gov, martiemerald@sandiego.gov, davidalvarez@sandiego.gov

PHONE LIST -
Dist. 1 -- Sherri Lightner - (619) 236-6611
Dist. 2 -- Kevin Faulconer - (619) 236-6622
Dist. 3 -- Todd Gloria - (619) 236-6633
Dist. 4 -- Tony Young - (619) 236-6644
Dist. 5 -- Carl DeMaio - (619) 236-6655
Dist. 6 -- Lorie Zapf - (619) 236-6616
Dist. 7 -- Marti Emerald - (619) 236-6677
Dist. 8 -- David Alvarez - (619) 236-6688

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 --selling online. Their 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.

Puppy Star's

6167 Balboa Ave.

Clairemont

+ Naedeen's Puppies -- owned by Puppy Star's

1021 S. Coast Highway

Oceanside

+ Pet Place -- owned by Puppy Star's

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."

Read all about --SPOT-- the rescue that is saving SDHS dogs scheduled for euthanasia

Go to the post on October 9 to read the article published in the North County Times. SPOT -- Saving Pets One at a Time can be found at spotsavespets.org.

SPOT is :
Working with 501C3 rescue groups to save more shelter animals!
Transporting rescued, adopted or abandoned pets to foster homes (and doing home checks)
Advocating and funding spay/neuter clinics
Assembling information about low cost vaccine clinics, recommending vets and dog trainers!
Volunteering with rescue groups to walk dogs, manage adoption events and raise money
Pack walks: Organized by the Dogfather or one of our Dogmas, we all get exercise and socialization
501c3 pending. Tax ID 27-2774363.

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.

YES! We are on the move!

We are pushing ahead with legislation to stop the sale of puppy mill puppies in San Diego pet stores. Our meeting on Feb. 21 was well attended by enthusiastic, committed activists. We made a great start in strategizing our plan and are continuing to work on it.

Educating the public is not enough. A few individuals protesting pet stores is not enough. If you love your companion animals, if you think they should be treated humanely, then we need you! And we need you now.

It is time for Action! West Hollywood and South Lake Tahoe have passed this legislation. Hermosa Beach passed this legislation on Tues. March 23. SO CAN WE!

If you want to help but haven't reached us yet, just send a message to keafs2@yahoo.com

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

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