Homewoods Rescue for the Wayward Hound

Please submit your adoption application immediately. All mill dogs will be current on all vaccines; Heartworm tested negative; non-aggressive; mange, ringworm and flea free; healthy and old enough for transport; de-wormed and FREE for the first time in their lives!!! Won't you rejoice with them by offering a loving forever home? It's a very decent thing to do under the circumstances. Each mill dog's individual adoption fee is noted in its write-up on PetFinder and helps cover program expenses, food, veterinary care and transportation costs and is required at the time of adoption.

There is some contention over the definition of the term puppymill. A common definition describes a puppymill as "a substandard breeding facility that fails to adhere to the Animal Welfare Act and which tries to avoid state and/or federal inspections." My definition is more broad:

Puppymill: A mass breeding facility, the sole purpose of which is monetary profit, with little or no regard to the health and well-being of the animals therein.

This being said, there are varying degrees of puppymills. I know of large puppymills with heated, air-conditioned indoor/outdoor runs for the dogs - much superior to the opposite end of the spectrum, which generally consists of rabbit hutches in barns with little light or ventilation. Yet, these "better" puppymills still breed females each heat cycle, and offer little or no veterinary care for the animals.

Hundreds of thousands of dogs suffer in puppymills in this country. They are prisoners of greed. The dogs are locked in small cages. They freeze in the winter and swelter in the summer. They never get out of their prisons. They are bred over and over again until they die. The only way to free them from their misery is to eliminate the demand for puppies by refusing to buy a puppy in a petstore and boycotting those stores that sell puppies. When the demand ends, the misery will end. The state and federal governments do not enforce the laws to protect the dogs. The commercial breeders and brokers have huge well-funded lobbying efforts. Please join this fight to free the prisoners of greed. The only person who is going to make a difference for these dogs is you. You, the people, can free them.

Recently Homewoods Rescue took the bit in their teeth to help the dogs of Missouri. Alone, Lisa Winters, Homewoods Rescue transport co-ordinator, drove 3,000 miles round-trip to spring fourteen lost souls. After a week of quarantine, these wonderful dogs are now ready to begin their lives anew and make up for lost time. Will you give one of these dogs a loving forever home?

These dogs can not believe where they had landed. Some have never been on the ground before! They have explored and played. It has been something to watch them. We have loved and cuddled these unconsenting victims and they are coming around beautifully. They are so precious and deserve the very best! Please adopt one :o)

PICTURES OF THE NEW RESCUES WILL BE POSTED SOON!