The Puppy Mill TruckThe suffering dogs in an actual puppy mill are kept well hidden by the puppy millers.Our Puppy Mill Truck exposes their operations to the public in hopes of putting an end to their cruelty. |
Welcome to PuppyMillTruck.comLooks crazy doesn’t it? Well, it works. Frustrated to teach people what puppy mills do, I decided to take the message on the road. As I drive my truck from town to town, people stop me, in total shock, and admit they simply didn’t know.
What they didn’t know is that puppies and kittens in pet stores, pet shops, and yes, flea markets, are born from the puppy mill trade. Puppy mills sell their pups for $5 or $10 a piece, while the pet stores sell them for hundreds. What many do not know is most of the puppies die on the way to be sold. The sick ones die as other puppies smother them in a hot truck. The Pet Store will say that the pups are registered pure breeds, but registered where? AKC? Doubt it! Phony agencies are created, papers are provided, but the papers are worthless. But, that’s not the point.
Puppy mill animals are usually sick with a host of issues. Puppy millers can’t afford veterinary care for the parents or the puppies. No need to worry though, because once you purchase one of these puppies, you’ll be footing the bill for kennel cough, respiratory infections, possibly parvo, and serious genetic disorders that won’t even be diagnosed for several years. Let’s face it, you’ll be buying a sick dog. Why should you care? |
Puppy Mills and EuthanasiaYou should care because 4—5 million dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States every year, and the numbers are rising.
The puppy mills are creating an over-abundant supply, but the demand in this country is low. So these animals end up, in one way or another, in a local pound. If they’re lucky they’ll make it into a rescue and wait to be adopted, but most of them are simply killed. In states that ban gassing with carbon monoxide, the dogs will be humanely euthanized by injection. In states that still gas, the dogs will be killed by the dozen by asphyxiation. Gruesome, isn’t it?
Bottom Line—it’s all about GreedThink about it, less than 25 years ago there was only your local pound. Today, there are shelters and rescues practically on every street corner, and individuals who privately rescue one dog at a time. Even reputable breeders are shunned today, which is a shame. If we could only focus on banning the mass breeding practices of the puppy mills, we could all be much happier. |
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Gas Box, photo by Carol Bowman-Henderson, New Mexico |
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Puppy Mill Dogs in High-Kill Shelter photo by Carol Bowman-Henderson, New Mexico |
Euthanasia By The Pound—Why Should You Care?Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. The amount of money funded every year to operate pounds and shelters is enormous.
Our current economy, combined with the mortgage crisis has only made a bad situation even worse. Today, shelters, pounds, and rescues are full. Private individuals are trying to rescue dogs from death row, and during the eleventh hour, not all of the dogs or cats are saved. Yet the puppy mills keep breeding. This current state of affairs makes puppy mills all the more unconscionable as these factory farms produce even more dogs—dogs that have absolutely no available homes waiting for them.
YOU PAY!
Animal shelters, pounds, and rescues across the nation do not house, feed, and care for these animals at no cost by some form of magic. Your taxes pick up the tab for what the puppymillers are doing. The puppy mill abuse of deliberately overpopulating the country with dogs is paid for by us.
What Can You Do About it?We are creating a grass roots effort to promote awareness and solicit individuals to be a voice for the animals not only in the State of Wisconsin, but throughout the United States.
The first and most important thing you can do to stop this madness is to stop purchasing pets from pet stores, pet shops, and puppy “farms”. Visit your local rescue, pound or shelter and adopt a dog instead. Even reputable breeders are taking a major hit, because puppy mills create an illusion online to appear to be legitimate—when they are not. Do your homework. For more information about reputable rescues and breeders, visit The Dog Liberator.
Your donation allows us to drive our Puppy Mill Truck to more places and create more awareness.
Ö Purchasing one of our bumper stickers for your car helps us spread the word. Ö We are asking for donations of pre-paid gas cards. Ö Cash donations to help us pay for internet expenses. Ö Linking our website increases our voice.
Puppy Mill Truck P.O. Box 338 Sharon, WI 53585 countrytown@charter.net |
No Play, No Vet Care, Wire Cage Injuries, Animal Cruelty, Animal Over-PopulationDue to lack of state laws and regulations, puppy mills are becoming an epidemic in Wisconsin.Central Wisconsin is becoming particularly bad though Missouri has had the greatest number of mills over the years. |
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This website has been written/and or edited by Gisele Veilleux and is endorsed and promoted by The Dog Liberator. For technical questions about this website, email GiseleVeilleux@earthlink.net |
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This photo depicts what a healthy dog’s life should look like. Photo of Sarah and her Border Collie, Tinsel Town. Photo by Gisele Veilleux. |
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This photo depicts what life looks like for a Puppy Mill Dog, a Border Collie, kept in a wire crate for its entire life. Photo by Gisele Veilleux. |
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Unwanted Leftovers. Puppy Mill Puppies that may have been casually discarded and ended up in a High-Kill shelter. Photo by Carol Bowman-Henderson, New Mexico. |
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Ö Stop buying pets from pet stores, pet shops, and puppy mills posing as reputable breeders.
Ö Adopt from your local shelter, pound, or rescue.
Ö Donate to The PuppyMillTruck and help us increase our exposure.
Ö Purchase a Puppy Mill Truck Bumper Sticker and Drive!
Ö Donate a pre-paid gas card to keep us rolling!
Ö Donate your stuffed animals to the Puppy Mill Truck.
Ö Add our website to your favorite social website.
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“Through Their Eyes” Video by Gisele Veilleux, Florida Photos & Poem by Carol Bowman-Henderson, New Mexico |
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Purchase Your Puppy Mill Truck Bumper Sticker and Help Us Spread the Word. |
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June 22, 2009 Letter from Gisele Veilleux:
Our new website went live Saturday, June 20th, and already we have our first donation, from Ohio. We are so excited. We also received an email from The No Wisconsin Puppy Mills, who stated that they were “delighted to see how one man has taken the initiative to help educate Wisconsin citizens about the issue of puppy mills through the PuppyMillTruck. They also felt that our first video “was an example of an innovative and effective way to help get the word out about exactly what puppy mills are.”
For more information about No Wisconsin Puppy Mills, visit their website at http://www.NoWisconsinPuppyMills.org
Our new video has received over 300 views in just one weekend. Bev & Jim Long, the PuppyMill Truckers, are quite amazed!
Our Bumper Stickers are now available, and we are working on a social networking site so we can stay in touch with you! Thanks to everyone for a great start! |
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“I come at the issue from the perspective that whenever you can cost someone business (pet stores, pet shops, puppy mills, and dog farmers), it weakens them and makes it more and more difficult for them to keep going.....if enough people become aware and stop getting dogs from stores and mills, there will be much less of them as well as a "terrible stigma" attached to operating or being involved in any way with such a thing.......No, there is no federal law against puppy mills but many states are cracking down on them......the more awareness there is the more people will demand something be done..........right now in Wisconsin we are trying to get a law passed where you need to be licensed and inspected if you sell 25 dogs in a year....this will put a cramp on the mills........I see public awareness as the most important thing to get the mills stopped.” Jim Long |
Do You Have a Dog?Can you imagine someone locking up your pet in a small cage and never EVER letting it out?
That’s what people that operate puppy mills do to "mother" dogs. They make them produce litter after litter after litter of puppies as fast as they can, like eggs in a chicken house. It’s not normal for a bitch to produce that many puppies every year, their entire life.
The dogs usually die an early, miserable death from the exhaustion.
Just like eggs, the "good" puppies are kept and the "bad" ones are tossed out like trash. The "mother dogs" never get to run across a lawn or field, play with a toy, get petted, proper vet care or human interaction. Some puppy millers operate by caging their dogs inside a barn 24/7 365 days a year. No fresh air, no sunlight instead, they live in a damp and miserable prison.
The "puppies" caged in the Puppymill Truck are just stuffed animals, a "mock" puppymill, but the puppies and adult dogs in an actual puppymill are real live animals that suffer night and day, day in and day out, summer and winter.
And its "legal" to do this to dogs and cats. |
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