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Dogs get 'a chance to live' on LI

BY JENNIFER BARRIOS | [email protected]
3:33 PM EDT, May 11, 2009

More than 200 dogs that were rescued from certain death at puppy mills in the Midwest arrived Monday at the North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington.

The dogs, purebreds that had been used for mass breeding of puppies, which are then sold to pet stores, had reached the end of their natural breeding lives and were about to be euthanized, according to rescue groups.

Monday, an air-conditioned truck carrying dozens of cages pulled into the parking lot at the North Shore Animal League America, where volunteers opened the cages and carried the dogs into the treatment building.

The dogs, which included everything from shih tzus to Labradors, had suffered from neglect while at the puppy mills. Most had matted fur and rotted teeth. Some had nails that had grown more than an inch long, and most had lived their entire lives in wire cages.

The dogs will be treated for medical conditions, spayed or neutered, and groomed at North Shore Animal League America and several other area shelters before becoming available for adoption.

North Shore Animal League America plans to charge a $200 adoption fee for each dog.

The rescue was coordinated by the Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society, the same organization that is rehabilitating former NFL player Michael Vick's fighting dogs, and the National Mill Dog Rescue, based in Colorado.

Joanne Yohannan, senior vice president of operations for the shelter, said the shelter just completed a marathon adoption event last weekend, so there is plenty of room for the new dogs at the Port Washington shelter.

'These animals deserve a chance to live,' she said. 'They would have been killed.'


I wish I had my own place, I'd adopt like crazy!