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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Puppy Mill Raids in Western Washington

What a mess. We live in Seattle, which is part of King County. Up north are Snohomish County and Skagit County where two puppy mill raids have led to the rescue of almost 600 pregnant dogs, about 80 percent of whom are pregnant. (We blogged about the Gold Bar, Snohomish County, raid last week). The woman who owns the Skagit County property is the mother of the one who owns the Snohomish property. Keeping abuse in the family! And, of course, they are all "designer dogs."

One of my coworkers is heavily involved in puppy mill issues. She says that northwest Washington is a refuge for puppy mills because regulation up there is particularly lax.

If the regulation in this area is worse than puppy mill regulation in general, it must be REALLY bad.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A group of us are working on puppy mill legislation in Oregon. A state-wide effort should be done in Washington as well to address this problem! I noticed Washington regulation is only county by county, which is unfortunate.

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