Friday, May 12, 2006

ASPCA in the News: Governor Dismisses Panel Not Enforcing Puppy Mill Laws

NBC10.com

Governor Dismisses Panel Not Enforcing Puppy Mill Laws
Animal Rights Activists Applaud Rendell's Action

... "The law itself is good," Bob Baker, the former chief inspector of the Humane Society of the United States who is now a consultant to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said Friday. "The problem is it's not being enforced."

Baker and about a hundred other activists--including Annemarie Lucas, an ASPCA law enforcement officer in New York City and a regular on the Animal Planet reality TV show, Animal Precinct--gathered Friday on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol building.

Wearing T-shirts and holding signs that said "No Puppy Mills," they introduced Aidan, a two-year-old West Highland Terrier and former breeding dog whose leg they said had been cut off by its owner to free it from a wire fence.

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