URGENT! JOIN US THIS COMING SAT., MAY 5 AT 5827 MISSION GORGE RD. THIS IS THE LOCATION OF THE SAN DIEGO DOG WASH, OWNED BY DAVID SALINAS. SALINAS DEALS IN DOGS IN HIS ONLINE SITE, SAN DIEGO PUPPY AND HE IS NOW SELLING PUPPIES FROM THIS LOCATION AS WELL. IT IS JUST A COUPLE OF BLOCKS OFF OF I- 8, ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
MEET US ON THE SIDEWALK ALONG MISSION GORGE RD.
1 PM - 3 PM
BRING SIGNS: BUYER BEWARE!
BE VERY CAUTIOUS WHERE YOU PARK -- NOT IN THE DOG WASH LOT.
SEE YOU THERE. SPEAK UP! SPEAK OUT!
April 23, 2012
L.A. City Council Votes to Ban Pet Store Sales!
Is San Diego next??? We will soon need your suppport in various events asking for a San Diego ban. Stay tuned for breaking news!
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The L.A. City Council voted Tuesday in favor of banning stores from selling dogs, cats and rabbits that are not rescues in an effort to curb the city’s animal euthanasia rates.
Eleven members of the council approved the motion, which will be drafted by the City Attorney’s Office into an ordinance banning pet sales. Councilman Bill Rosendahl cast the dissenting vote.
Councilman Paul Koretz, who sponsored the motion, said the ban would help eliminate puppy mills and reduce the city’s animal euthanasia rates.
“Puppy mills are a very cruel practice with inhumane conditions that often result in the animals having many kinds of medical problems,” Koretz said.
The approved motion also directed the Animal Services Department to report back on how the proposed ban, if enacted, would affect kill rates at city shelters and its economic effect on pet stores. Koretz’s motion also asks the department to craft a way to distinguish pet shops that comply by selling rescue dogs, cats and rabbits from stores that sell other live animals like fish and reptiles.
The ban on pet sales would go into effect six months after the ordinance is enacted and would be for a temporary three-year trial period.
(©2012 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc
LA City Council Moves Forward On Banning Pet Sales
April 17, 2012 7:56 PMLOS ANGELES (CBS) — The L.A. City Council voted Tuesday in favor of banning stores from selling dogs, cats and rabbits that are not rescues in an effort to curb the city’s animal euthanasia rates.
Eleven members of the council approved the motion, which will be drafted by the City Attorney’s Office into an ordinance banning pet sales. Councilman Bill Rosendahl cast the dissenting vote.
Councilman Paul Koretz, who sponsored the motion, said the ban would help eliminate puppy mills and reduce the city’s animal euthanasia rates.
“Puppy mills are a very cruel practice with inhumane conditions that often result in the animals having many kinds of medical problems,” Koretz said.
The approved motion also directed the Animal Services Department to report back on how the proposed ban, if enacted, would affect kill rates at city shelters and its economic effect on pet stores. Koretz’s motion also asks the department to craft a way to distinguish pet shops that comply by selling rescue dogs, cats and rabbits from stores that sell other live animals like fish and reptiles.
The ban on pet sales would go into effect six months after the ordinance is enacted and would be for a temporary three-year trial period.
(©2012 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc
April 17, 2012
W e l c o m e !
SD Animal Defense Team
VICTORY CELEBRATION!
Eight months of protests, investigation photos and videos, monitoring conditions of animals and housing for our three targeted pet stores in this campaign and
WHAT DO WE GET????
All three stores plus the home of the owner were raided, 100+ animals , including 57 puppies, were confiscated and the owner is being charged
with animal cruelty and neglect.
Thanks to each person -- 200 of you of you -- who stood with the ADT
and spoke out for compassion! We are grateful not only for the folks who showed up time after time to protest and document, but those who
came to the store to buy and decided to adopt instead and those driving by who stopped to join us and those who came out of the store outraged by what they saw inside and called the Department of Animal Services and
the SD Humane Society to report it!
At the time we write this, thanks to all of your efforts, there is not one pet store within the city limits selling puppy mill puppies!
Now we all know that can change tomorrow, but
WOW! It was time for CELEBRATION!
(Channel 51 KUSI had great tv coverage.
We'll post the news video ASAP in case some of you missed it.)
From the Coast News
Pet store owners under investigation for animal abuse
By Shelli DeRobertis
OCEANSIDE — At least one bird had to be put to sleep after investigators confiscated more than 50 puppies and dozens of other animals March 27 from the owner of three pet stores for possible mistreatment of the animals for sale.Warrants were obtained to search conditions at Naedeen’s Puppies at 1021 S. Coast Highway in Oceanside; Puppy Stars at 6167 Balboa Ave. in San Diego; Pet Place at 6512 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego; and the owner’s private residence. The animals were primarily seized from the private home and one of the pet stores, according to law enforcement for the humane society.
Authorities took away 57 puppies and other animals such as birds, rabbits, a large tortoise, and a 7-foot python snake.
“So far one animal was euthanized, a dove, due to the condition it was in,” said Kelli Herwehe, spokeswoman for the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA.
“Some were obviously dehydrated and malnourished,” she said.
Several of the seized animals have been medically treated and required surgeries, and all of them received full veterinary exams, according to Randall Lawrence, director of Humane Law Enforcement for the humane society.
He said the animals are being housed at the San Diego Humane Society as potential evidence for the pending investigation.
“Potential charges include California Health and Safety Code violations and potential animal cruelty and neglect,” he said.
The condition of the animals along with evidence collected from the public will help determine the extent of possible charges that the owner of the pet shops may face.
The name of the owner is being withheld due to the pending investigation, Lawrence said.
“We are asking the community to provide additional support for this case,” he said.
If someone purchased an animal from any of the three above named stores, and that animal was ill at the time of purchase or later became ill, Lawrence said the humane society would like them to report the animal’s situation at (619) 243-3466.
For Janice Hatch, the day that the animals were confiscated from Pet Place was one that she won’t likely soon forget. “I stood there and cried when they brought them out,” she said.
Hatch is co-founder of the San Diego Animal Defense Team, a grassroots organization in its fourth year of protesting against pet stores that sell puppies.
The Animal Defense Team filed complaints to the county against Naedeen’s Puppies, Pet Place and Puppy Stars and said the businesses were receiving their puppies from puppy mills.
Hatch said more than 200 volunteers have helped protest. “We protested 20 times at these three stores,” she said.
The website for the Animal Defense Team lists at least six other countywide pet stores that have been targets of protest and have been asked to stop selling puppies.
“We have been contacting pet stores and asking them to sign a pledge to not sell puppies in their pet stores,” she said.
Some of those stores have closed as a result or the owners have signed the pledge and agreed to stop selling the animals, she said.
The Animal Defense Team’s protests involved the typical sign-holding cluster of people and grew to include cheerleading chants and street theater acts where protestors donned costumes.
She said the team has photos of sick puppies from the Oceanside pet store where litters of puppies were kept in children’s swimming pools.
Hatch said that storeowner didn’t respond to a letter that explained the protests.
She said although it’s not illegal to receive puppies from a puppy mill, these stores were telling customers that the puppies came from local family breeders. However, she said she obtained some breeder reports that showed the stores used a broker from out of state. “What makes it in my mind illegal is they’re telling customers they’re not doing it,” Hatch said.
The Coast News attempted to contact all three businesses, and the person who answered the number listed for Puppy Stars said it was the wrong phone number, the number for Pet Place was disconnected and there was no answer or recording at the number for Naedeen’s Puppies.
There are an estimated 10,000 puppy mills in the United States, and many consumers are unaware that they may have purchased a puppy mill puppy. The Humane Society of the United States claims that most puppy mill dogs live in shockingly poor conditions.
They have an ongoing campaign to put an end to puppy mills.
Puppy mills have hundreds, even thousands of dogs used purely for breeding that live in cages without human interactions, toys or proper care.
Many times the dogs are scared, have eye and ear problems and problems with their paw pads due to spending their life in wire cages, according to a video online with Melanie Kahn of the Humane Society of the United States. Contaminated food and algae-filled water are also woeful conditions commonly found at puppy mills.
Hatch said that she decided to help fight against puppy mills after her family rescued a puppy mill breeder dog who had half-an-ear, no teeth and a sliced tongue when they received her. Upon grooming their rescued dog, Bella, a Saint Bernard, they also found enormous cesarean scars on her belly, she said.
For the recently seized local animals, Herwehe said they won’t be released for adoption until the investigation is complete. Meanwhile, however, the San Diego Humane Society is accepting donations to help care for the animals.
Herwehe said that new enclosures need to be purchased, especially with the unique types of animals, including reptiles, that the society received after the March 27 pet store raid.
Donations may be made online at sdhumane.org or by mail at 5500 Gaines Street, San Diego, CA 92110.
By Shelli DeRobertis
OCEANSIDE — At least one bird had to be put to sleep after investigators confiscated more than 50 puppies and dozens of other animals March 27 from the owner of three pet stores for possible mistreatment of the animals for sale.Warrants were obtained to search conditions at Naedeen’s Puppies at 1021 S. Coast Highway in Oceanside; Puppy Stars at 6167 Balboa Ave. in San Diego; Pet Place at 6512 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego; and the owner’s private residence. The animals were primarily seized from the private home and one of the pet stores, according to law enforcement for the humane society.
Authorities took away 57 puppies and other animals such as birds, rabbits, a large tortoise, and a 7-foot python snake.
“So far one animal was euthanized, a dove, due to the condition it was in,” said Kelli Herwehe, spokeswoman for the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA.
“Some were obviously dehydrated and malnourished,” she said.
Several of the seized animals have been medically treated and required surgeries, and all of them received full veterinary exams, according to Randall Lawrence, director of Humane Law Enforcement for the humane society.
He said the animals are being housed at the San Diego Humane Society as potential evidence for the pending investigation.
“Potential charges include California Health and Safety Code violations and potential animal cruelty and neglect,” he said.
The condition of the animals along with evidence collected from the public will help determine the extent of possible charges that the owner of the pet shops may face.
The name of the owner is being withheld due to the pending investigation, Lawrence said.
“We are asking the community to provide additional support for this case,” he said.
If someone purchased an animal from any of the three above named stores, and that animal was ill at the time of purchase or later became ill, Lawrence said the humane society would like them to report the animal’s situation at (619) 243-3466.
For Janice Hatch, the day that the animals were confiscated from Pet Place was one that she won’t likely soon forget. “I stood there and cried when they brought them out,” she said.
Hatch is co-founder of the San Diego Animal Defense Team, a grassroots organization in its fourth year of protesting against pet stores that sell puppies.
The Animal Defense Team filed complaints to the county against Naedeen’s Puppies, Pet Place and Puppy Stars and said the businesses were receiving their puppies from puppy mills.
Hatch said more than 200 volunteers have helped protest. “We protested 20 times at these three stores,” she said.
The website for the Animal Defense Team lists at least six other countywide pet stores that have been targets of protest and have been asked to stop selling puppies.
“We have been contacting pet stores and asking them to sign a pledge to not sell puppies in their pet stores,” she said.
Some of those stores have closed as a result or the owners have signed the pledge and agreed to stop selling the animals, she said.
The Animal Defense Team’s protests involved the typical sign-holding cluster of people and grew to include cheerleading chants and street theater acts where protestors donned costumes.
She said the team has photos of sick puppies from the Oceanside pet store where litters of puppies were kept in children’s swimming pools.
Hatch said that storeowner didn’t respond to a letter that explained the protests.
She said although it’s not illegal to receive puppies from a puppy mill, these stores were telling customers that the puppies came from local family breeders. However, she said she obtained some breeder reports that showed the stores used a broker from out of state. “What makes it in my mind illegal is they’re telling customers they’re not doing it,” Hatch said.
The Coast News attempted to contact all three businesses, and the person who answered the number listed for Puppy Stars said it was the wrong phone number, the number for Pet Place was disconnected and there was no answer or recording at the number for Naedeen’s Puppies.
There are an estimated 10,000 puppy mills in the United States, and many consumers are unaware that they may have purchased a puppy mill puppy. The Humane Society of the United States claims that most puppy mill dogs live in shockingly poor conditions.
They have an ongoing campaign to put an end to puppy mills.
Puppy mills have hundreds, even thousands of dogs used purely for breeding that live in cages without human interactions, toys or proper care.
Many times the dogs are scared, have eye and ear problems and problems with their paw pads due to spending their life in wire cages, according to a video online with Melanie Kahn of the Humane Society of the United States. Contaminated food and algae-filled water are also woeful conditions commonly found at puppy mills.
Hatch said that she decided to help fight against puppy mills after her family rescued a puppy mill breeder dog who had half-an-ear, no teeth and a sliced tongue when they received her. Upon grooming their rescued dog, Bella, a Saint Bernard, they also found enormous cesarean scars on her belly, she said.
For the recently seized local animals, Herwehe said they won’t be released for adoption until the investigation is complete. Meanwhile, however, the San Diego Humane Society is accepting donations to help care for the animals.
Herwehe said that new enclosures need to be purchased, especially with the unique types of animals, including reptiles, that the society received after the March 27 pet store raid.
Donations may be made online at sdhumane.org or by mail at 5500 Gaines Street, San Diego, CA 92110.
April 04, 2012
Pet stores investigated for puppy abuse
Pet stores investigated for puppy abuse coverage from Fox5 San Diego
April 02, 2012
VICTORY CELEBRATION!
~~~VICTORY CELEBRATION~~~
The SD Animal Defense Team is going to party at Puppy Stars!
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012
AT PUPPY STARS
6167 BALBOA AVE.
IN CLAIREMONT
NOON TO 2 PM!
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| 1234 Open up the cage door! 5678 Set them free! Liberate! |
All three of the targeted puppy mill stores in our current campaign were raided simultaneously on Tues. March 28 and over 100 animals
including 57 puppies were confiscated.
For all of you devoted ADT animal activists who protested, made calls, created signs and photos and videos, it is time for us to be together and celebrate!
Come even if you only protested once. This is your celebration too!
Those of you who never made it but wished you had are invited!
You raised your voices in defense of the animals NO MATTER WHAT!
You came in wheelchairs and walked and biked and drove great distances
to protest NO MATTER WHAT!
You put the welfare of the puppies in the stores and their mothers and fathers trapped in puppy mills at the top of your personal priorities NO MATTER WHAT!
You are on the front lines of a battle against the cruel and inhumane cycle of
puppy mills to pet stores and YOU ARE WINNING!
We did this as a grassroots community of advocates who care and we will
persevere until we HAVE A BAN ON THE SALE OF PUPPIES IN PET STORES!
Bring VICTORY signs and your red Animal Defense Team scarves and your dogs and kids and snacks and friends and neighbors! One of our members even says he can create a vegan b-b-q!
We have all been on the front lines at Puppy Stars, Pet Place and Naedeen Pups since August 2011 and
together WE DID IT.
Join the party!
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