Beverly Hills Ruling on Ordinance to Criminalize Stray Cat Feeders

                 Jinky, the dog of a Hollywood wife goes to Beverly Hills City Council meeting and mouths off

There are some really spoiled and mean nitwits in Beverly Hills. Boy, am I glad that lady who complained about a little bit of cat food in her alley is not my neighbor because I'd have to leave her a giant pile right where she walks around in her robe in the morning.  It'll get on her slippers right when she's having coffee and she'll track it into her precious house.

So the other night, my mom makes me go to a really, really, long meeting at Beverly Hills City Hall. Mom sneaked me in her bag and they didn't know I was there.  It was really boring listening to the "problems" they have in Beverly hills, like that a basement is really a ground floor and that people are mad about how expensive yoga classes are getting and how the city should pay for the yoga classes. Wow. I had to distract myself by counting how many people were farting in the auditorium. I think I caught the scent of a councilman letting go at one point. 

So here's what this super long meeting was about: 

1. There's a nice lady who feeds stray cats.

2. There's a mean lady who hates the nice lady AND stray cats. She thinks they ought to starve.

3. The nice lady is not only feeding the stray cats, she's also spaying and neutering them so we don't have too many cats in Beverly Hills (I'm happy to help her trap them, I can chase them right into the trap thingie anytime she wants, she can just call me, I'm really good at it). 

4. There's an old dumbass Beverly Hills rule that you can't feed stray animals in public in Beverly Hills. Who made up that rule? What are we supposed to do if somebody dumps us? Are we supposed to just die slowly in the street? Uh...I'd like to bite that guy, whoever he is.

 After they heard all the experts making minced meat out of the mean lady, the council is gonna think about it. They need to think about it? If they could think at all, they'd just tell that pinch-faced meanie she's wasting everybody's time. Everybody's got to eat, including cats. 

Here's what nasty sour puss lady is afraid of:

She 's afraid the left over cat food in her alley is going to attract rats, coyotes, cockroaches and crows. Boy, I think she's got cat litter for brains. First of all, cockroaches have been here, in Beverly Hills, for, like, a million years! Way before Rodeo Drive was here and way before sourpuss moved here. And guess what? Cockroaches are going to dance on her property after she is dust. Way after she's moved out of Beverly Hills and off the planet. 

Rats. She doesn't want rats in her alley. She needs to wake up because rats live here, lady. It's not cat food that brought them here. It's life. She's better think about rats a little more, maybe read a little history about the black death. Rats were blamed for killing 1/3 of the population in Europe in the 1300s. But it wasn't the rats, dummy! It was the fleas! If they had front line, they would have lived. Anyway, rats are gonna be in her alley and probably inside her house for a long time whether or not anybody feeds a stray cat outside her precious door. Personally, I hope one crawls into her bed to keep her company because she must be pretty lonely and bored right now. I like rats. I like to chase them. They live in our garden and they are cool with me.They pretend they're scared, run up trees---it's a whole game we play. They don't bother anybody. They got a bad rap in the 14th century, that's all. The Jews got a bad rap too back in the 14th century. They too were falsly accused of causing the black death by "poisoning wells." 

There's always a heartless idiot making trouble.

Coyotes. Wow, she's scared that coyotes are coming to eat the left over cat food. What a dumbass. The coyotes live here! We live in their digs, get it? And they like to eat the cat food inside the cat before it's digested. They eat cats, rats and other small animals. So if you don't like rats, mean lady, then you should LOVE coyotes because they chase the starving kitties you have no compassion for away, get it? Wow are you dense. You're about as dense as a brain-dead Chihuahua. Me? I'm scared of coyotes but I respect them. I know we are building on their land and they need a place to do their thing. Who are we to move them? Coyotes are not after cat food. They come into my place and drink my pool. That's cool, Mom keeps me inside unless she's there with me. 

I really hope a coyote bites mean anti-stray cat lady but they won't because they're way too smart to do that. If a coyote bit one, single, blown-out, overdone, plastified, divorced, botoxed, Beverly Hills hag, there would be a massacre and they know it. The City Council would probably vote that in before you could say, 'Bulgari-is-having-a-sale."

Crows. Sourface is afraid that crows will fly into the alley behind her house to eat the cat food. Yikes! Is there no limit to how pea-brained this woman is? Crows live here too. And just FYI, they are smarter than sourpuss stray-cat-hater. I know crows are not even worried about this at all. In fact, I just saw them shitting on her car, on her windows and at the next really long meeting, they will follow her to City Hall so they can shit on her head.

What sourpuss really needs is to move to a hermetically sealed condo that gets blasted into outer space, where she can completely control every aspect of her space...out there, far away in space.  

I really hope this nasty lady is never homeless because if she ever becomes homeless, nobody will feed her.  

Wanna complain and tell City Council what hey ought to do?

Here ya go...

You may reach city officials by phone at:
• Mayor Nancy Krasne, (310) 285-1000
• City Attorney Laurence S. Wiener and prosecutor Maria S. Chung, at (310) 285-1055
• Vice mayor Jimmy Delshod and council members Barry Brucker, William Warren Brien, M.D. and John A. Mirisch, (310) 285-1013.

Michael Jackson: Lover of Animals or Callous Collector?

Abandoned giraffe cage at Michael Jackson's private zoo

July 3, 2009 ADMJ --Carole Raphaelle Davis

Michael Jackson did not love animals. He loved to collect them. He loved owning them like a sheik owns his harem.

As details emerge about the bizarre life of Michael Jackson, questions about the animals who were housed in his private zoo of exotic pets remain unanswered. Members of the animal welfare community wonder whether Jackson was truly an animal lover or merely a collector who abandoned his dozens of exotic pets, leaving them to be scattered, with no endowment, in different facilities around the country.

Recent photographs of Michael Jackson's private zoo have been released by TMZ.com. The photographs are of the emptied interior and the abandoned grounds of Jackson's Neverland Ranch north of Santa Barbara. The photographs of the zoo enclosures are particularly disturbing to some in the animal protection movement.

Jackson owned wild animals, including giraffes, elephants, tigers, crocodiles and monkeys and housed them in what appears to be caged conditions. Though the animals' enclosures might not have been illegal, they were inhumane. And though no animals currently reside there, their former home reveals much about how the animals lived.

Elephant cage at Michael Jackson's private zoo

Mr. Jackson bought the ranch in the late 1980s. There, he set up a zoo to house exotic pets. What happened to them when he left the ranch — and the United States — after his acquittal on charges that he molested a teenage cancer survivor in 2003?

There are numerous reports that the animals were sold at auction, that some went to sanctuaries, that some are being cruelly warehoused in Arizona, that caretakers were not paid after he left the property and that Michael Jackson was sued by his veterinarian for a six-figure unpaid bill for treatment of the Neverland animals.

Though the rooms inside the home look luxurious, the enclosures for his private collection of large, wild animals look woefully inadequate. The cages and outdoor enclosures appear not to meet the minimum standards of humane care that is required for the well-being of the animals living there. The photo of the elephant cage tells the story of a grim existence.

"It's a very small space with a concrete floor which is detrimental to elephants' joints and feet," says Catherine Doyle, elephant specialist and Los Angeles director of campaigns for In Defense of Animals. "It looks like a concrete cell. It's no way to keep an elephant; there's no way that type of enclosure could ever meet their needs. It's a depressing, small, impoverished space."

"Elephants walk tens of miles a day and their home ranges measure hundreds of square miles," continued Catherine Doyle. "They have extremely complex social structures and they live in tightly knit family groups in which the females stay together for life. It's like looking at a prison cell looking at these pictures."

I spoke to undercover investigator Jack Stevens on July 4th. He is an elephant expert, having worked hands on with them both in the Circus and at an Elephant Sanctuary. " I can state categorically that the pictures of the enclosures I've seen at Michael Jacksons Neverland Ranch are grossly inadequate to house an Elephant, " he said. "Unless the Elephant was given long term access to vast acreage on other parts of the ranch where he/she could roam around unimpeded at his/her own leisure I would say that cage bordered on the inhumane."

                                      Abandoned outdoor enclosure at Michael Jackson's zoo

There are thousands of pictures on the Internet of Neverland ranch and many on-line albums on photo sharing websites that have been uploaded by visitors to Michael Jackson's zoo. In every picture I could find, there are none where the animals are roaming. It makes sense that the zoo keepers would keep potentially dangerous animals from having access to visitors. The grounds are obviously not equiped like a sanctuary, where a visitor can observe wild animals in a naturalistic setting. The Neverland grounds, even in their decayed and delapidated state, look like what they are: a children's amusement park which also had zoo animals on display. This was a zoo and as far as zoos go, not a very enriching one for its captives.

"It reminds me of the pictures you see coming out of Guantanamo," said Jack Stevens. "Elephants are highly social, intelligent, sentient beings. To house a single elephant in a concrete cell is cruel. Let's not forget that the elephant who was confined in a tiny stall had his/her own family and friends and no doubt longed for them but was denied because of the selfishness of humans."

I spoke with Jane Garrison, an animal advocate and contributing author of "Elephants and Ethics" (Johns Hopkins Press). While she was running an international program to protect elephants ten years ago, she was so concerned about a paricular elephant at Michael Jackson's zoo, she contacted the Neverland veterinarian.

"I was horrified that this incredibly social animal was being housed alone and I contacted Michael Jackson's representative to get the elephant moved to a sanctuary, " said Ms. Garrison. "They live their entire lives with their mothers, their sisters, their aunts... so no amount of space could make up for this. Keeping a female elephant alone is actually the cruelest thing you can do to her."

"I tried to get them to retire that elephant and the vet wouldn't budge," continued Ms. Garrison. "They have job security by having an elephant there. Any vet who approves of a female elephant being alone certainly does not have the best interest of the animal at heart."

Ms. Garrison added that even the AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums), which is regarded with disdain by the animal rights community for acrediting confinement of animals, is against the housing of a lone female elephant. "There is no way to humanely keep an elephant in captivity when you consider their physical and social needs," she said.

On July 1, CNN issued a report that featured Bubbles, the Chimpanzee Jackson brought on tour with him in the 80's. When Bubbles became "too difficult" (Bubbles bit a hole in Quincy Jone's daughter's hand) he was returned to the trainer who originally bought him from a facility in Texas that breeds chimps for research. The trainer handed Bubbles over to the Great Apes Sanctuary in Florida, where he is retired and thriving with other chimpanzees. As in the case of other Neverland animals, he was surrendered with no endowment for their care.

Fans of Michael Jackson insist he loved Bubbles but a more skeptical look at TMZ photos of Bubbles' former cage reveals that he lived in a zoo, not a sanctuary. He lived a solitary existence in a cage when he wasn't on display. Chimpanzees are social animals and thrive in a naturalistic environment with other chimpanzees. Bubbles was dressed like a toddler and treated like an entertainer for Michael Jackson's pleasure. He is certainly happy now, climbing and enjoying the company of friends, not gawkers.

According to the London Standard, two of Michael Jackson's tigers did not find buyers when his zoo animals were auctioned. Tipi Hedren, who is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, adopted the tigers after animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) broke the news of the deplorable conditions the animals were living under.

"They, as did 98% of the animals requiring sanctuary at the Shambala Preserve, came with no bank account or dowry," said Tipi Hedren. "As a sanctuary, that's what we do. We rescue exotic felines who have been born in the U.S. to be sold as pets or for commercial use. It is a grave human error to acquire a wild animal as a pet."

Certainly, the desire to own or have dominion over dangerous wild animals has psychological implications. Psychologist, author and animal advocate Jana Kohl told me she wanted to cry when she saw the pictures of Michael Jackon's zoo enclosures. Her opinion of the zoo includes the psychic suffering its owner.

"The physical and emotional abuse Joe Jackson inflicted upon his son, including objectifying Michael as if he were a possession, merely there for his own narcissistic needs, was sadly something Michael repeated himself," said Dr. Kohl. "He thoughtlessly acquired exotic living beings whose own needs were secondary to his insatiable child-like drive to collect and display as many prized possessions as he could, like the priceless objets d'art he bought by the truckloads. The animals were there for his amusement, and whether or not they suffered in cramped or unnatural conditions appeared to be something he was incapable of recognizing. If Michael had spent a fraction of his fortune in therapy, understanding and mourning his painful past, he would have likely made different and more conscious choices, including being able to empathize with creatures who have no voice, just as he had no voice as a child, other than the one he created for performing."

Michael Jackson might have professed to love animals but upon closer inspection, his relationship to them was less than loving. You don't sell your pets when you tire of them. Nor should you buy pets that you can't commit to for their lifetime. A responsible pet guardian makes arrangements for their care.

Michael Jackson used wild animals for his entertainment and as a lure to delight the children he wanted to surround himself with and then he abandoned them, both financially and emotionally.

Supposedly unable to care for his private zoo as a result of "financial troubles," Jackson continued his lavish spending right until the end, where he was leasing a California castle for $100,000 a month while his former animals, the ones lucky enough to live in sanctuaries, depend on donations from the public.

As the public waits to discover the specific contents of the Michael Jackson family trust, a private document that instructs how his assets are to be allocated, some of us in the animal protection movement hope that a few dollars will go towards the animals he abandoned. So far, the details released to the press are as follows: 40% to his mother. 40% to his children. The remaining 20% is to be distributed to undisclosed children's charities.

Nothing to animals.

Michael Jackson never visited Bubbles once he gave him away. Maybe John Branca, the executor of his estate, will throw him a banana.

Carole Raphaelle Davis is the author of "The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood wife" and West Coast Director of The companion Animal Protection Society

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Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife, pressures White House. Joins "Bo Needs a Friend" Campaign

What does it take for President Obama to adopt a friend for Bo from a shelter?  I can't understand why the Obamas didn't adopt. What a load of cat poop. If they had adopted a shelter dog, they could have solved the whole problem of pet overpopulation. I've written to the White House, using special snail mail. I've paid a very large and fast snail in my yard to go to Washington DC and climb into the Oval Office with my letter. 

I know it'll be gooey and leave a trail of shmutz on the president's very important desk stuff but so what. Five million of my buddies dying in the pound every year is pretty important too. If the Obama family doesn't get smart and go to the D.C. pound, where they are killing my friends right now, I'm making a stink bomb, a compressed and potent fart bomb  that I plan to launch and detonate from right here in Hollywood. It will reach D.C.. 

I'm not worried because I'm a Terrierist, not a terrorist. My mom and her friend, my auntie Jana Kohl, are much more polite. They have no idea how to make a stink bomb like I do. So for you prisses who can't make launchable putrid stink bombs, there is a website you can go to and get all the info, including my mom's op-ed piece to the president, "Yes we can? No, you didn't!"

Try going to BoNeedsaFriend.com and write YOUR letter to the White House!

                           Carole Raphaelle Davis and her rescued dogs

Cutest Dog in the World Needs a Helping Hand

Help! it looks like my sister is stuck in the shelter! Can somebody please call? I think it's an emergency because you know what happens at the pound. If somebody doesn't step up, they might, you know, end it all. I'm so sad about it, I'm donating $100 of my allowance to help get her out of there. Please see the email I got from Jane below:

Subject: WITH VIDEO! LA, CA: IVY WILL GROW ON YOU: TERRIFIED LITTLE MOPPET WITH UNDERBITE NEEDS RESCUING FROM SLA
To: "Jane Garcia"
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 9:27 PM

I first saw Ivy trying to be invisible, jammed into a corner of a cage she shares with several other little dogs at SLA. She shot me a dirty look which seemed appropriate given the yellow dot on her cage card, indicating a behavioral "issue."



But I wasn't fooled. No dog with such a cute underbite could be such a meanie. So I enlisted the help of James, a lovely ACT who works wonders with terrified dogs in the shelter. Sure enough after a few minutes he emerged with her in his arms. She had been trying to scare him off by biting his gloves...except he said she didn't bite them at all. She just "gummed" them.



He carefully handed her over to me and we just sat down with her on my lap, getting to know each other.



After about 10 minutes of me petting her, she let me gently comb her wonderful rough coat. She let me look at her teeth--they're pretty good--and pick goop out of her eyes all without even an indication that she would "gum" me.



She is such a cutie pie. She looks like a mix of a Boston Terrier, Chihuahua and Jack Russell. She only weighs about 8lbs. and needs to add a couple as she is rather too skinny.



Ivy came in as an "over-the-counter stray", which usually means the person who dumped her was the owner who just didn't want to pay the $5 surrender fee. Someone must have cared about her enough at one time to buy her a darling collar with pink hearts. But the same person then broke Ivy's heart and brought her to the shelter.



Ivy is REALLY scared. She flinches if people come near but once she knows you won't hurt her, she is okay. She feels safest in someone's arms and would make a lovely little lap dog.



But Ivy needs to be someone willing to take the time to gain her trust. You can see in the video James shot of Ivy and me that she is a charming little girl who is not afraid to be touched, as long as it's in the right way.



I just hope that by seeing the video and reading this email someone out there will think Ivy is worth giving a chance. She is a precious little thing. And that underbite is darling.



Right now I don't think she should be placed in a home with kids and/or big dogs. She seems fine with the other dogs in her cage. She just hangs back and lets them go nuts when people approach.



PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT IVY'S VIDEO AND CROSSPOST SO THAT SOMEBODY MIGHT SEE THIS LITTLE DOLL AND LET HER KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE IN A HOME WHERE SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO FEAR ANYONE OR ANYTHING EVER AGAIN.



Ivy's impound number is A1017245. She is three years old and not yet spayed. Save her before she gets sick!



*Please note that Ivy is the name I gave her. She has no assigned name in the computer.



SLA direct lines: 213-485-0117, 0119

(Phones answered 24/7; please get the name of the person you talk to.)

Fox News sixty two dogs rescued from Riverside Puppy Mill

Fox News Reveals Puppy Mill Rescue in Riverside

Please view the Fox News Report on a Puppy Mill rescue in Riverside California. 

Miniature Pinschers Rescued From Puppy Mill in Riverside

Rescue of Sixty-Two Min Pins from Puppy Mill in Riverside CA


Miniature Pinschers Rescued from Puppy Mill Good Dog Animal Rescue and Companion Animal Protection Society Rescue 62 Dogs in Riverside, CA

(Los Angeles, CA) - Sixty two Miniature Pinschers were rescued from a substandard breeding facility in Riverside, California on March 3rd 2009. The puppy mill was operated by Linda Smith, who claims to have been “breeding champion Min Pins for twenty eight years.” The dogs were rescued by Good Dog Animal Rescue with the assistance of the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) after an undercover investigation revealed evidence of animal cruelty and severe neglect at the Riverside home of Linda Smith.

The dogs had been living in filthy and inhumane conditions and the Riverside Animal Control has admitted to “an open case on Linda Smith for years.” Field Commander Rita Gutierrez told CAPS West Coast Director Carole Raphaelle Davis that the kennels of Linda Smith had been inspected as recently as February 25th and that Linda smith had passed the inspection. Gutierrez also admitted that as a general rule, she gives her cases a “heads up” before she sends officers in for an inspection, “in order to keep people on their toes.” She stated she had given “heads up” notice to Linda Smith routinely. CAPS questions this tactic as it only encourages animal abusers to hide evidence when given prior knowledge of lawful entrance to the property by the authorities. Many of the dogs had been crudely debarked at home, a painful and dangerous procedure that keeps the dogs from making sounds when barking.

“Having assisted the rescue, I can only describe it this way: Silence of the Lambs. The stench was eye-stinging. The dogs were crammed into overcrowded runs and cages and were living on a carpet of feces, eating and drinking out of buckets filled with feces and urine. Their nails were grown into their foot pads, their mouths are in advanced stages of gum disease, many having lost all their teeth. The dogs were infested with fleas and were being eaten alive by ticks. They have never seen a vet. This is clearly an actionable case of animal abuse and we are outraged by the laissez-faire attitude of Riverside Animal Care and Control. The remaining twenty animals must be removed from Smith immediately and she must be charged.” - Carole Raphaelle Davis, CAPS West Coast Director and author of “The diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife.”

“It’s a nightmare for these poor dogs. After we rescue them, and spend one-on-one time with them, they really just want to be a pet; they don’t want to be a machine. They don’t want to be stuck in a crate for the rest of their lives; they want to play with a tennis ball. Before you buy a dog, whether it be from a breeder, the Internet or a puppy store, don’t judge a book by its cover because you don’t get to see - all you see is ‘cute puppy.’ But if you saw the parents like I see the parents when I do rescues, it doesn’t make the puppies so cute anymore.” - Chance White, Founder of Good Dog Animal Rescue
www.gooddoganimalrescue.com

How you can help: Currently the dogs are being cared for by Dr. Werber at the Century Veterinary Group in Los Angeles. If you are interested in donating, please call 310.559.2500 and tell them it's for the Riverside California puppy mill rescue done by Good Dog Animal Rescue. The dogs will be available for adoption at the following locations that have been converted to a humane business model as a result of protests by local activists and the Companion Animal Protection Society (Humane) Pet Store program. These stores now hold regular adoptions.

Woof Worx (formerly Pets of Bel Air)
2924 N. Beverly Glen Circle
Los Angeles, CA 90077
310-474-1211
woofworx.com

Elaine's Pet Depot
12423 Wilshire Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90025
310-828-4545
petdepot.net/elaines.html

Helen's Pet Depot
10531 west pico blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
310-470-2922
petdepot.net/helens.html

Kirby's Pet Depot #3
12112 Venice Boulevard
Mar Vista (Los Angeles), CA
310-313-1801
petdepot.net/kirbys.html

A short documentary which includes the evidence by award winning filmmaker Carly Heath is viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NfFRISt6kA. A high quality version is available by request.

Visit www.caps-web.org.

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About:
Companion Animal Protection Society is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting companions from cruelty and inhumane breeding practices in Puppy Mills and Pet Shops. Founded in 1992, Companion Animal Protection Society also known as CAPS, actively addresses this issue through undercover investigations, consumer education through the media, legislative involvement, puppy mill dog rescues, consumer assistance and pet shop employee relations. CAPS uses evidence from reports and investigations for congressional oversight hearings targeting the USDA’s failure to enforce the Animal Welfare Act. CAPS has gained worldwide recognition for shutting down large puppy mill operations and converting pet shops to humane animal adoption centers. For more information on Companion Animal Protection Society please visit www.caps-web.org.

Los Angeles Pet Hospital Hosts Riverside Puppy Mill Min Pins

Here are some of the Miniature Pinschers that are in Dr. Werber's hospital in Los Angeles after being rescued from an inhumane breeding facility in Riverside. They are getting lots of attention and medical treatment. Many of them are ready to go to new homes and all of them are ready for love...

Riverside Animal Control Disgraced by Inhumane Puppy Mills

My mom went to Riverside with Good dog animal Rescue and our friend Carly made this documentary about what's going on there. How can anyone be that mean to dogs? I'm sending one of my most potent gas bombs in the direction of Riverside Animal Control and the Riverside City Council too.  PFFFFRRRRRRRRRRT.....

Barbara Bush Angers Pigs with Heart Valve Surgery

Pigs Protest Barbara Bush's Pig Valve

News Type: Event — Fri Mar 6, 2009 5:56 PM PST

politics, satire, pig, barbara-bush, heart-surgery

Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife

Pigs angry at Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush has had a pig valve implanted in her heart. The life-saving surgery has angered animal rights activists who think that the valve was wasted.

"She bought a brand new pig valve for her heart. Seems like her heart wasn't working very well," said animal welfare advocate Louis Lovedove. "A PIG saved her life; can you believe that? Think about it. She had a pig killed so that she could go on living. If you count all her Christmas hams, I wonder how many pigs she has used up in her life. This pig, though, is the pig that keeps on giving. I don't think she even had a heart before this pig was sacrificed."

A group of radical activists gathered around the hospital where Barbara Bush's heart was worked on, and ranted and pumped their fists. One middle aged woman who refused to give her name, wearing sweat pants and Crocs screamed at the top of her lungs,"Remember what Mommie Bush said about victims of Hurricane Katrina? 'They're underprivileged anyway, so [ living in the Superdome ] is working very well for them.' See? Her heart wasn't working any better than FEMA was, even then!"

"Poor pig---has to end up in that body," said a young activist wearing a beard and a 'Stop the Seal Slaughter' Tee shirt.

"She finally has an organ that matches her attitude," says comedy writer Kevin Flanneur. "It would have been easier just to put her brain in a pig. Personally, I'm happy for her because I want to see her live long enough to see her son to go on trial for treason."

Pigs around the country are deeply angry about the former first lady's exploitation of one of their own. "We deserve better than to end up rendered inside that woman," yelled a rescued pig at Animal Acres, a farm sanctuary outside of Los Angeles. "She spawned the biggest creep ever who then spawned a war and the worse economic collapse since the great depression."

Animal Acres was the seat of lively discussion late last night. The pigs got into a heated argument in the south barn. "I've never met Barbara Bush but I have met a few pigs and given the choice, I'd rather hang out with pigs than politicians or their stupid moms," said Harvey, a two hundred and thirty pound pig who was rescued from a slaughter house.

"Bring it on," he continued. "I'd like a nice honey- baked Bush for Christmas."

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Elaine's Pet Depot in Los Angeles to Go Humane After Weeks of Protests By Animal Welfare Community

The Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) is pleased to announce that after five weeks of protests by animal welfare activists at Elaine's Pet Depot in Los Angeles, the store has decided to convert to a new business model as a rescue center for abandoned animals. Elaine Binner, owner of Elaine's Pet Depot, signed an alliance agreement and relinquished her puppies to Chance and Jocelyn White, co-founders of Good Dog Animal Rescue.

A group of Los Angeles activists organized by Carole Raphaelle and Carole Sax conducted an investigation of the puppy mills that supply the Pet Depot Chain of franchise pet stores. The acquired evidence revealed that the puppies sold in the store were from inhumane commercial breeding facilities in the Midwest. Two other franchises of the Pet Depot Chain "Kirby's Pet Depot" of Simi Valley and "Judy's Pet Depot" of Westwood have also converted to the humane model and are currently holding adoptions.

"The evidence from Minnesota, Missouri and Oklahoma were enough to convince shoppers to not contribute to this sort of animal abuse. The parent dogs are suffering in USDA licensed facilities that are puppy mills. Right now, these dogs are exposed to extreme temperatures, confined to small enclosures and are being used like breeding machines. We are very happy that Elaine's Pet Depot is going to be a place where shelter animals can now be adopted into loving homes. There truly is a rescue revolution taking place in the hearts and minds of consumers and as more and more pet shops join the rescue revolution to become rescue centers, consumers, retailers and animals will all benefit. .

During this historic economic crisis, it is especially unethical to breed, sell or buy a pet while five million companion animals are killed in our nation's shelter system every year. The $1000 you would have spent on a dog should be instead given to a family in need. "- Carole Raphaelle Davis, CAPS Los Angeles Director and author of "The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife"

"The facts are in; they can't lie anymore. We have the proof, photos and video footage from the mills where she bought the dogs. She had no choice but to go humane because she knew we were never going to go away. We have a wonderful group of loyal supporters in the fight against puppy mills and the pet stores that keep them in business."
- Carole Sax, CAPS Volunteer Coordinator

Barbara Bush Buys Pig Valve

Bush's mom bought a new pig valve for her heart. Seems like her heart wasn't working very well.

A PIG saved her life; can you believe that? Think about it. She had a pig killed so that she could go on living. If you count all her Christmas hams, I wonder how many pigs she has used up in her life. This pig, though, is the pig that keeps on giving. I don't think she even had a heart before this pig was sacrificed.



Remember Mommie Bush Dearest's comments about victims of Hurricane Katrina?
"They're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them" said the former first "lady" Barbara Bush when she force-visited hurricane evacuees in Houston following the political fiasco. See? Her heart wasn't working any better than FEMA was, even then.

Poor pig---has to end up in that body. Mom and Dad have been taking about it for hours and they have different attitudes about pigs.

Dad: "She finally has an organ that matches her attitude. It would have been easier just to put her brain in a pig. Personally, I'm happy for her because I want to see her live long enough for her son to go on trial for treason."

Mom: "I can't believe it! Pigs deserve better than to end up rendered inside that woman. She spawned the biggest creep ever who then spawned a war and the worse economic collapse since the great depression."

I've never met Barbara Bush but I have met a few pigs and given the choice, I'd rather hang out with pigs than politicians or their stupid moms.

Here's the CNN article:

(CNN) -- The surgeon who performed heart surgery Wednesday on former first lady Barbara Bush said Thursday that she is recovering well from the 2 1/2-hour surgery in which her aortic valve was replaced with a pig valve.

Former first lady Barbara Bush had heart surgery Wednesday in Houston, Texas.

"From our perspective, this was a very routine procedure, and we expect her to make an excellent recovery," Dr. Gerald Lawrie told reporters at Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston.

Bush had experienced "severe narrowing of the main valve that lets the blood come out of the heart into the circulation," Lawrie said.

"This valve, instead of being a soft, flexible structure that opens and closes, breaks down," he said, adding that calcium deposits cause it to stiffen, which can result in fluid in the lungs and progressive deterioration.

He said an echocardiogram showed her condition was "extremely severe."

Typical symptoms of problems with an aortic valve include shortness of breath, fatigue, weakness and swelling, he said.

Though his patient is 83, "she's a very fit lady," which helped make the operation a "relatively straightforward" procedure," he said.

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Diagnosed with the condition less than a week before the surgery, Bush entered the operating room at 7 a.m. and, after an hour of preparation during which lines were attached to her and anesthesia was administered, the main work began, Lawrie said.

In all, she was on a heart-lung machine for 55 minutes; the implantation of the valve took 45 minutes, he said. She required no blood transfusion.

Bush was back in the intensive care unit by 10:45 a.m., where she awoke "quicker than most" patients of her age, he said.

He described her as "very lucid."

"She recognized all of us immediately and actually started tearing us up with some humorous comments just as soon as we took that tube out."

He predicted she would remain in the ICU until Friday or Saturday, and then be transferred to a standard hospital floor for another five to seven days. But already, he said, she is "walking around the room a little bit."

Bush's husband of 64 years, former President George H. W. Bush, visited her shortly after the operation.

"I've been a nervous wreck about it," said the former president, who said he had received telephone calls of support from President Obama and all the other surviving former presidents.

"I think there is a lot of interest because of who she is," he said, his voice cracking.

"She looks well. I just came from her room and she's doing well. I keep saying, 'You look great.' [She says] 'Don't tell me that.' But you know, she does ... she looks well to me -- and beautiful."

Bush added, "She's in command. She's in control of our whole family."

Asked to describe what occurred between the two when he saw her, he said, "I don't remember any words. I'm not the anecdotal one in the family. It was just a reunion of two people who love each other."

Afterward, the former president turned to a hospital administrator and said, "I'm sorry I get emotional, but I can't help it."

The Bush family matriarch is the mother of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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Obama Family Can Adopt a Portugese Water Dog

photos: Chip Pearson

Dear President Obama and the whole Obama family,
I know you're not used to getting emails from dogs but please, please hear my plea. I heard you wanted a Portugese Water Dog and I found one on PetFinder for you. She's in Minnesota and her humans couldn't keep her anymore so she ended up in the shelter like I used to be. She's gorgeous, she's nice and she loves kids.

Can you give her a chance? Like so many Americans in these hard times, she's homeless. I don't usually get my hopes up too much but you changed all that with your election. So now I'm full of HOPE that you will look at WEMA and reach out to her. With one act of kindness , you will be, yet again, an example of hope for the hopeless, an example of compassion to your kids, an example of wisdom to the country. By adopting a homeless dog, you will change the way Americans bring dogs into their lives.

Give WEMA a chance.

Read her story in Fairmont Sentinel here:

http://www.fairmontsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/503145.html?nav=5003

Meet Wema, the Portugese Water Dog. Wema means goodness, kindness and compassion in Swahili. Wema is young and healthy and homeless, like millions of dogs in our nation's shelter system. And like so many Americans today, she is a victim of financial hardship. Her people couldn't afford to keep her anymore. Now she waits with hope in her heart for a new family to love.

Wema is gentle, well-behaved and loves children and other animals. She even enjoys a game of toss the ball with herself!

Portugese Water Dogs are exceptionally intelligent and willing to please. They make excellent family companions and love the country as well as the city. They are sturdy and strong but gentle and affectionate. " Porties" are elegant and refined but love to play. Portugese water dogs are also known to be hypoallegenic, with a soft curly coat that allows people with allergies to enjoy their companionship.

This athletic and sweet-natured young lady deserves only the best and she is currently being spayed and vaccinated.
She can be reached at the Martin County Humane Society in Minnesota.


Call Wema!
The Martin County Humane Society 522 Margaret Street Fairmont, MN 56031 Phone: (507) 238-1885 Email: pawprints01@hotmail.comClick here for a list of pets at this shelter

HSUS Animal Cruelty Investigation Reveals PetLand Selling Puppy Mill Dogs

Hey PetLand Phonies,
I know I'm just a dog, but dogs are smarter than you think we are. Not only are we smarter, but we can smell a fish from Hollywood all the way to Ohio where you are. We dogs can actually feel things you can't feel---empathy for the millions of dogs in imprisoned puppy mills and shelters around our nation.

You've got a lot of nerve selling factory pets when five million companion animals are euthed every year in the shelter system. All of the pets you sell are made like machine parts. These pets live out their sad lives confined to cages and will never know what it's like to be loved. You've got some nerve thinking it's OK to hide behind your USDA minimum standards of care baloney.

Dogs only get 6 inches in front of their face for LIFE in your USDA breeding facilities. You think that's humane? There's a reason why all your stores are being picketed. There's a right and a wrong here and you are on the wrong side of this moral issue, demonstrating your priority of greed before the welfare of the animals you sell.

Your bogus defensive youtube video is a stinking load of cat poop as far as we're concerned. Go humane or go out of business. I lift my leg on you, PetLand!

Please view this defensive and misleading statement by PetLAnd below and comment here on this blog because, guess what? They aren't posting comments from us.

Unlike PetLand creeps, I believe in the First Amendment. So let me know what you think of PetLand's policy of selling dogs from Puppy Mills and pets from pet factories. I'll make sure they see your comments and I promise to shoot some stink wind in the Fedex envelope before we send it all to them.

Look at the PetLand spokescreep, defending their inhumane business model. Please look how she says that "no one is more sensitive to the welfare of our puppies than we are." Hey! WHAT ABOUT THE PUPPIES' PARENTS? Do you have cat poop for brains as well as having an obscene-sounding name? Why I oughtta...

Don't Shop, ADOPT for Christmas! The Puppy Store Goes Humane!

Jinky speaks out:
Wow. The Puppy Store on Melrose in Los Angeles is pretty smart. Rather than face months of siege by animal welfare activists in front of their door, they went humane in four hours of protests. Two weekends are all it took, that and an investigation by the Companion Animal Protection Society.

As Gretchen Wyler used to say, "Cruelty can't stand the spotlight." We found out that the dogs were coming from puppy mills and confronted them with the truth. They will now mend their ways and comply with demands from the animal protection movement.
Bravo to the Puppy Store! Now we can all shop there.

All photos by Elle Wittelsbach of Strangest Angels Rescue
Real men protest puppy mill fronts

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Holidays, everybody, I've been a very bad dog.

I lifted my leg in protest at The Puppy Store on Melrose in Los Angeles for two weekends in a row and they decided to go humane. They knew they couldn't contnue to sell puppy mill dogs if we were going to keep coming like we did to many other stores like Posh Puppy in Beverly Hills. So far in L.A., there are six stores that went out of business and two which have decided to stop their mean puppy mill dealings.

Because of pressure from us pound dogs and our moms, the Puppy Store has promised to never sell puppy mill dogs again. I'm really happy about that because there are so many dogs suffering and lonely all year, not just Christmas, in cages all over the country. Those dogs are used as breeding machines to sell in pet shops and Internet dog websites everywhere.


So Mom and a bunch of our friends want to congratulate the Puppy Store for their really nice-guy decision and now I can go there to buy all my fancy clothes and food and neck jewelry!

We also want to thank the volunteers who came out with adoptable dogs from the Amanda Foundation , Strangest Angels Rescue , the Kris Kelly Foundation and Los Angeles Animal Services. There are so many people losing everything right now and they can't even keep their dogs, so the dogs end up like I did, on death row. So I'm asking you, begging you, please don't buy while my old cell mates at the pound die. Take the $2000 you would have spent on a dog or cat and give it to a family in need instead. Then come down to the shelter and take one of us home. That's the true Christmas spirit.

I'm also telling Santa, that fat elitist bastard, he'd better start giving presents to poor kids too. Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Jain and atheist kids too. It's only fair. Why does Santa give more presents to rich kids? And what has Santa done for puppy mill dogs and pound dogs like me? This is what I'm talking about. I'm sending some of my special stink wind in the direction of the north pole tonight, man, hoping Santa will come to his senses and free all those puppy mill dogs and pound dogs and give them a really simple present...a LOVING HOME. Pffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrt!

Hey, watch this cool video taken in front of The Puppy Store last Saturday, where we are singing:

You better not shop, You better not buy!

You better adopt, I'm tellig you why! Santa Paws is coming to town!

Pressured by Animal Rights Activists, The Puppy Store in Los Angeles Stops Selling Puppy Mill Dogs

Jinky's Thanksgiving: Meeting his meat at Animal Acres

News Type: Event — Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:51 PM PST

Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife visits Animal Acres, a Sanctuary for Farmed Animals

Meet me, don't eat me!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody, I've been a very bad dog.

I used to love gobbling up turkey on Thanksgiving. But, the other day, I actually met a turkey and he was walking around all happy with his friends. He told me about how he was rescued by a farmed animal rescue organization called Animal Acres. What a story! He had almost been murdered at a slaughter house and now, he's retired and living it up at the sanctuary. Hanging out with him made me feel like I've been a total jerk-dog all these years.

I walked right up to that turkey and said, "Wassup, Dude?" He snapped back at me. "Yo, Jinky! Can you do me a huge favor? Can you please tell all your friends that we actually feel it when they kill us? And that we are cooped up our whole lives and that this bogus "holiday" is a Turkocide? It's a totally mean holiday for turkeys and other farmed animals."

After that, I went over to the area where they keep the pigs. They were huge! They looked like they could seriously kick my ass. I have new respect for pigs. They are even lazier than me and can sleep through anything. Lots of vegan tourists were there, hanging around with the pigs in their house and the pigs were, like, "I'm napping, get over it." Their house was very rustic chic and I really liked their carpet because you could pee on it and no one got mad. I sort of lifted my leg in a corner.

I'm not a Ham,
A pig I am! I love Prop 2 , and so do you,
The horrid crates are banned!

Mom's friend was petting one of the pigs and another pig walked over and drenched her pants in pig pee--filled up her entire sneaker. Everybody was laughing. Boy, nobody would laugh if I did that at MY house. It got me thinking about all the ham sandwiches everybody eats. They don't don't make the connection, I guess. After meeting these guys, I'm not sure I'll ever look at a ham the same way. They have blinky sweet eyes and long eye lashes and the girls have really round butts like Playboy Piggies. They even look like they're walking around in high heels.

A lot of my dog friends like to chew on pig ears all year long, not just on Thanksgiving day. Let me tell you something: I met a pig that weighed eight hundred pounds. I think if you're going to chew on a pig's ear, you ought to try and get it off of him alive--yourself. This guy could have crushed me if he wanted to. He didn't. He let me into his house and he saw me pee in the corner and didn't mind at all. My mom gave him a huge belly rub.

Mom giving the giant a belly rub.

So this Thanksgiving, I think everybody should actually thank the animals for a change. Come up to Animal Acres and check out what a fab place it is.

It's better than heaven, because nobody had to die to get there.

Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife.

Animal Acres is a farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate living center located just 45 minutes from Los Angeles. Animal Acres ( www.animalacres.org ) works to promote compassionate living through its farmed animal rescue and refuge efforts, public education and outreach, and advocacy projects to prevent cruelty to farmed animals. Since we opened our doors in 2005, thousands of people have visited the sanctuary and learned that farmed animals need protection, and love, too. Animal Acres is "Home Sweet Home" to rescued cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, goats, and other "country critters.

Nice guys like me get slaughtered by the millions for...religion. I've got beliefs too, ya know, like peace for ALL God's creatures.

By Carole Raphaelle Davis, actress, animal welfare advocate and author of "The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife."

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Chien recoit charge electrique sur trottoire de Nice

My Broke Bark Mountain boyfriend Lamby got a bad zap in the street by stray voltage in Nice this summer and the French TV covered the story. He was rushed to the vet and guess what? The local electric company wouldn't even respond. I guess they're waiting for a kid to get zapped before they do something.

Here it is:

Jinky Furious about Baghdad Campaign to Kill City's Stray Dogs

They're murdering stray dogs in Baghdad...again. What is going on in the minds of Iraqi "government" officials that they are using poisoned meat and rifles to effect a final solution on dogs? Do Iraqis hate dogs that much that they are demanding the authorities to hunt us down and kill us?

This is where our tax dollars are going. We are assisting a dog-killing government with billions of dollars. Isn't it bad enough that they want to kill each other? They have to shoot at us too?

I just want to make something really clear here. When there is a natural disaster like an earthquake anywhere in the world, who gets sent in to find survivors? DOGS, that's who.

Did you know that the US Army trains dogs for our military? For duty? Military dogs, American dogs are deployed in Iraq and getting shot at every day. Let me tell you a secret: they don't retire with benefits.

A few dogs have gotten lucky, like that Lava guy, who was befriended by a kind soldier in Iraq. But believe it or not, the US Army has got some dumb-ass rules about being nice to Baghdad dogs. It's not allowed.

Today, after looking at this creepy news story in the New York Times (below), I send my stinkiest farty wind in the direction of Baghdad. I am calling on all ex pound dogs, pound dogs, frou frou pet store dogs, all dogs, to send a giant, gas fart-bomb to Iraq today. It won't kill the dogs, only the bums who are killing us.

Here's the story from the NY Times, below. Read it and cry.

('BAGHDAD (AP) -- Baghdad authorities killed more than 200 stray dogs on Sunday, the opening day of a campaign to cull dog packs roaming the capital that was prompted by a spate of fatal attacks on residents.



By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



Published: November 23, 2008
Filed at 10:33 a.m. ET



BAGHDAD (AP) -- Baghdad authorities killed more than 200 stray dogs on Sunday, the opening day of a campaign to cull dog packs roaming the capital that was prompted by a spate of fatal attacks on residents.
Three teams of veterinarians and police officers used poisoned meat and rifles to kill the animals, said Dr. Hassan Chaloub, an official at the veterinary hospital supervising the effort. He said the capital has no dog shelters.
The campaign started Sunday in western Baghdad and will move to the eastern half of the city early next year.
Thirteen people died in August alone in the capital after being attacked by dogs, according to Baghdad's provincial council, which is overseeing the campaign.
People in some neighborhoods have been too frightened to go outside when the dogs are present.
''For many days, people, including me, could not go to work in the morning because of these dogs,'' said Jinan Abdul-Amir, who lives in the Sadiyah neighborhood in southwest Baghdad. ''I came here today to the veterinary hospital to file a complaint.''
Under Saddam Hussein, authorities killed stray dogs in the capital almost every year, but the practice ended with his ouster in 2003. Since then, local officials estimate, the number of strays in Baghdad has grown to more than a thousand.

Barkworks Slanders Animal Welfare Activists and Shelter Dogs

My mom saw a sign outside of Barkworks in the Westside Pavilion today that was full of lies. Barkworks, or FARTworks, as I like to call it, is a puppy mill front. BarkJerks is just a place that sells puppies whose moms and dads are in horrible pet factories for life. I hope people go to the shelter instead or to PetFinder to find a really cool dog like me.

Hey look at Lamby! The Barkjerk jerks want you to think that shelter dogs are all abused, old, crippled, deeply psychotic and have wildly infected anal glands. Lamby is a an example of all that, isn't he? (LA shelter dog, yup, yes-sir-eeeeee) Heckova job, BarkJERKS! Stop being so creepy, will ya?

My mom's letter:

Hey Barkworks!

I was in the Westside Pavilion today and read your sign outside the store. Your interpretation of what activists think is faulty. We in the animal protection movement know exactly what a puppy mill is. It's not a small backyard breeder or a hobby breeder or a show breeder. It's a commercial breeding facility where the dogs are kept in cages for their entire lives, used as breeding machines for profit. You know what they are; you buy your stock from them. So stop trying to sugar coat the practice of buying from commercial breeding facilities by lying to your customers, making the commercial breeders sound like sweet little old ladies breeding one bitch every once in a while. It's bullshit.

You intimate in your sign that activists think it's wrong for people to breed their own pups. Newsflash! For your information, it is illegal to "breed your pup" in Los Angeles. There is a spay/neuter law. In your own sign, you prove your utter disregard for the law.

To top it off, you actually stoop low enough to attempt to deter passersby from going to the local shelter. It is unconscionable of you to actually hurt dogs' chances in our shelter system by lying to the public that the dogs are all "old" and are likely to be "abused" or have "behavioral issues." Right now, times are hard for people--thousands can no longer keep their homes and they are being forced to abandon pets in record numbers. For you to put a big sign outside your door telling people, in so many words, to NOT go to the shelter because the dogs are no good is mean-spirited.

Contrary to what you wrote, there are many purebred, young dogs who have simply been abandoned. They need homes and you shouldn't need to make them look bad in order to sell your dogs. Sadly, and you know this, if you actually had a sign about where the dogs are from, with pictures, no one would buy your dogs. What I'm saying is quite clear, plain and true: if you told the truth, customers wouldn't buy from you. Even your employees don't know what to say when asked the questions. None of them have been where the investigators go. If they went and saw, they'd quit.

In your attempt to counter-attack the educational pro-adoption movement against you by the Best Friends Animal Society, you have made yourselves look defensive. It is obvious that you do not yet know enough about the power of the animal welfare movement and how it will change your business. You might have noticed a few puppy mill fronts going out of business in Los Angeles. Maybe it's Oprah's influence, maybe it is the fact that every major national animal protection org is after the puppy mill biz, maybe it's all the USDA and AKC whistle blowers talking about the substandard conditions in the commercial breeding facilities, I don't know. One thing is for sure though: people are beginning to know the truth and pet stores will go the way of film development stores. There is nothing you can do about it. Consumers are evolving and we will continue to educate them about your crappy store and other stores like it.

I look forward to the day when you realize that there are more ethical ways to make money than from the suffering of breeding dogs. That day is coming. Times are hard, like I said, and consumers have shut their wallets this season. Have a very lousy Christmas. Everyone else is, especially the mothers of the puppies in your stores. --



Love the part where it says that individuals deserve the right to not have their information distorted. Ha! Who's distorting the truth here? Like you can't "train, develop, love, or build a life-long bond" with a dog from the pound.

Losers.

Obama Not Least Likely Candidate for White House, a Shelter Dog Is

An open letter to Barak Obama about rescuing a DOG.
Will Barak Obama adopt a rescue dog or will he cave into AKC special interest? Will the president elect listen to his friend Oprah about the puppy mill issue? The White House dog is "a major issue." In today's economy, with people struggling and dogs being given up because of foreclosures, how can our president not hear this pound dog's simple request to be heard?

"Barak Obama is not the least likely candidate for the White House, a shelter dog is. "--Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife



Dear President Obama,

I am so happy you are our president. Your election meant a lot to underdogs like me, a mutt who was on death row at the pound. It means that all things are possible and that change really is coming our way. I want to tell you something that you might not have heard simply because you can't hear as well as I can. As a dog, with ears forty times more powerful than yours, I can hear a moose fart in Alaska. I can hear your little girls asking you for a dog too and I want to help you find one for them.

You don't have to settle for an ugly mutt like me, you can get whatever kind of dog your daughters have their heart set on. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dogs in our nation's shelter system howling, "YES WE CAN!" right now. They are full of what your campaign brought to our country: HOPE--- Hope that you will hear their cries and be their voice.

I'm a shelter dog who got lucky. A lot of my old cell mates in the pound didn't make it. As a matter of fact, five million of my buddies die every year because there aren't enough homes for us. And what people don't understand and what I'm trying to tell them all the time is that when people BUY a dog, one of us gets the needle. The dummies who make more and more dogs in order to make a profit never think of us. The shelters are full and unless somebody comes and rescues us, we're 'dead dog walking.'

Now back to you and your family: you've got two great girls and one of them has allergies. OK, no problem. Did you know that 20% of dogs at the shelter are purebred dogs? Did you know that my best buddy (our family adopted him last year) is a hypoallergenic dog that was "redlisted" at the shelter ? He's a very fancy dog, a Bichon (and if it wasn't for Prop 8 here in CA, I might be able to marry him). How do you like the Hawaiian outfit he put on in your honor? He had to wear it until Florida was won on Election Night.

Just look at my best friend Lamby. He's gorgeous, purebred AND hypoallergenic. But more important than that, he's smart and he's nice and he didn't understand why he was homeless. There are lots more abandoned hypoallergenic dogs like him who are homeless. So when the AKC comes calling with their special interest, tell 'em what I tell 'em. Why are you trying to sell me a dog? You can't buy love. And why are you creating an overpopulation problem instead of being part of the solution? You know it costs American taxpayers 2 billion $ a year to house and kill dogs in our shelters?

Mr. President, there is (hypoallergenic) love waiting for your girls at your local shelter or on http://www.petfinder.com/ . A Bichon, or Poodle or Maltese is there right now and he hears your call to bring change to America. Let him be the first shelter dog in American history to be elected to be the first family's dog. He is the least likely candidate for the job of loving up your girls but he is deserving, he is ready to serve. He is qualified and he is full of HOPE in CHANGE he still believes in. He's hoping we live in a meriDOGracy.

Your example would lift us all even higher.

Yours truly,

Jinky, a simple pound mutt who got lucky.

"I Want a Puppy for Christmas!" And other Dumb Holiday Ideas

Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife

“I Want a Puppy for Christmas!”

And Other Dumb, Holiday Ideas.
By Carole Raphaelle Davis

Someone you know wants to buy a puppy for Christmas and I am here to talk them out of it because the truth must be told. It’s a typically dumb holiday impulse. Yes it’s true, puppies are adorable but one should think before one hands over their credit card.

I don’t mean to be all bah humbuggish about it but puppies become dogs in a few months. If you have room in your heart for a new four-legged friend this holiday season, wouldn’t it be the ethical choice to refrain from buying a puppy and consider adopting an adult dog instead? Isn’t that really more in line with the holiday spirit? After all, while families are decorating their trees, dogs are being euthanized by the thousands at the pound.

Why are adorable, pure-bred puppies brought to the pound after the newness wears off? Because puppies are a lot of work! Puppies are infant dogs and need constant care. They pee, they poop, they chew, break things, throw up and cry, just like babies do. They have tiny bladders and bottomless tummies and don’t sleep through the night. Unless you’re rich and have full-time help, you’re in for a tremendous amount of sleeplessness and work.

I want you to count to ten and consider this before buying a puppy: Did you choose all your good friends when they were drooling, pooping-in-their-pants infants? Or did you pick your friends because you like them and feel good about them? Aren’t most of the friends you’ve made adults? Does the fact that you didn’t know your friends when they weren’t even able to hold up their own head impede your friendship in any way? Really, did you meet your good friend and say, “ooh! How cute that drooling toothless little girl is! Wow, that baby with the poop-filled diapers is going to help me move. I can’t wait ‘til we can hang out together and I can tell her all about my problems with my job and my marriage!”

For every puppy bought at the store, there is another one just like him at the pound, just months older, getting ready to say goodbye to the world. Why? The answer is simple and sad. The person paying $1500 at a pet shop for a puppy mill Yorkie won’t go to the pound and rescue one.

If someone you know is thinking of buying a pooping, whining, peeing, chewing, destroying-everything-in-the-house, little furry creature this holiday season, please consider adopting an adult pet.

You want a designer dog? No problem. The shelters and rescue organizations are full of them. PETFINDER.COM can help you find even the rarest of breeds. You can probably find a Brussels Griffin or a Briard within your zip code. Every single breed of dog is a click away. On PETFINDER.COM, you get individual stories about the pets, like where they came from and why they ended up in foster homes or at a shelter. Foster care-givers know the personality of the animal and how he interacts with others, including children. You can even go and meet the animal with your other pets or your children to see how they all get along.

The fact is you simply know more about an animal when you meet him as an adult. You actually don’t know what you’re getting in a puppy. All you know at eight weeks old is what it might look like. And looks shouldn’t be a criterion for picking a best friend anyway. We don’t pick our friends for their looks do we? Well, maybe in Hollywood…

Be logical. You can interview an adult person to judge if he’s intelligent, well adjusted, mentally normal and friendly. You can get a feeling if he is a thief or a liar or a murderer. You can’t interview a ten-week old baby. You have no idea if that baby will grow up to rob you and burn your house down. Using the same logic, you can interview an adult dog. You can get a sense of his personality, if he seems well adjusted, mentally normal, intelligent, open or friendly. You know he won’t rob you and burn your house down. You can’t interview a puppy. Every puppy has only two wriggling motivations—worming its squirmy little cuteness to the food and then emptying it out at the other end.

Training an adult dog is much easier than training a puppy. Believe me, a rescued dog wants to learn how get along in your house. All he needs is some exercise, patience, understanding and a little time. Even an older dog will be so grateful you took him in, as long as you show him the ropes, with kindness and understanding, he will gladly learn what he needs to in order to fit in. The job of helping an adult dog or cat to assimilate is far easier than the job of training a puppy.
So this holiday season, don’t go to the pet shop. Adopt an adult dog. You’ll save a lot of money. You’ll be able to think more highly of yourself. Now that’s a gift! Real status is not about what rare breed you bought, but about what kind of person you are. By giving money to the puppy mill industry, you are putting money directly into the hands of a business that perpetuates misery for profit. They deserve to be put out of business.

The real joy of Christmas is in giving— and what better gift to yourself than giving a home to a lonely dog. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, with gratitude, loyalty and love. Participate in the solution. Let’s spread the Christmas spirit and help empty out some of those cages.
Save a life. Adopt.

Carole Raphaelle Davis is an actress, aniaml welfare advocate and author of “The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife,” by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
http://www.hollywoodjinky.com/
mailto:hollywoodJinky@gmail.com
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Carole is the best! My furfriend, Eddie, won't start his day until he has checked to see if Jinky has a new post. We need to spread the word and save the pups.

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Ever wonder where your pet shop puppy or kitten comes from? Look at:

http://www.awarenessday.org/

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Photo : Richard Ray
Carole Davis sur les lieux avec son chien, mais...dans les bras ! De peur qu'il ne recoive une nouvelle décharge.


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Un caniche reçoit une décharge électrique sur le trottoir
Paru aujourd'hui, Monday, September 22, 2008 3 commentaire(s)




En décembre 2006, l'affaire du trottoir électrifié de la place Garibaldi - juste devant le magasin Monoprix- avait fait grand bruit.

Plusieurs chiens avaient pris des « coups de jus », l'un avait même péri et l'origine du problème avait été finalement identifiée comme provenant d'un défaut d'isolation des globes lumineux incrustés au sol. Une intervention des services techniques avait alors suffi à régler le problème.

Ces mêmes services devraient être sollicités tout prochainement afin d'effectuer des investigations au 63, rue de France devant un magasin. C'est là qu'un caniche du nom de Lamby aurait reçu une sacrée décharge le 23 août dernier.

Des investigations de la ville

L'adorable toutou a survécu et va désormais bien. Mais sa maîtresse ne veut pas en rester là. Car cette Américaine résidant à Nice une partie de l'année est une militante de la cause animale. « Il vaut mieux que ce soit arrivé à moi, car je ne laisserai pas passer. »

Carole Davis écrit dans des revues spécialisées dans les chiens. Actrice ayant notamment fait une apparition dans « Sex and the city » et dans plusieurs longs métrages, elle a publié un livre dans lequel elle raconte la vie d'un chien à Hollywood, The diary of Jinky, dog of a Hollywood wife. Elle est aussi investigatrice et enquête notamment sur les trafics de chiens.

Si Carole Davis veut qu'on parle de cette mésaventure, c'est pour éviter que cela n'arrive à d'autres, qu'ils soient sur deux ou quatre pattes. « Imaginez qu'un enfant soit électrocuté ! » s'écrie cette amoureuse des animaux qui a déposé plainte. Elle a écrit à la mairie ainsi qu'au syndic de l'immeuble situé au 63, rue de France.

Ce dernier a pris l'affaire très au sérieux et a écrit à EDF ainsi qu'à la ville afin de faire procéder à des investigations souterraines.

Auguste Vérola, adjoint à la proximité et à la population, s'est lui-même rendu sur place mais n'a rien constaté. « J'ai demandé aux services techniques d'intervenir, d'autant que je vois régulièrement des gens qui rentrent de la plage et qui marchent pieds nus précisément à cet endroit lorsqu'ils se rendent à leurs hôtels de la rue Meyerbeer » indique l'élu.

Si ce phénomène que Carole Davis appelle des courants vagabonds est méconnu en France, il fait, en revanche, l'objet d'une importante littérature sur Internet aux États-Unis et au Canada.

D. C.



alerter 22/09/2008 09:59 FAFA
ici on est pas aux USA. Les enfants ne font pas pipi ou caca comme vos amis a quatre pates. heureusement car deja qu'il faut enjamber les escrement des chiens tout en faisant attention de ne pas glisser, imaginez si tous les enfants faisaient pareil. Mais une chose me surprend, comment cette dame peut affirmée que son petit toutou s'est pris un décharge electrique; etait elle equipé d'un testeur ou a t'elle instalée une lampe sur son annimal? OU a t'il fait tout simplement un malaise?

alerter 22/09/2008 10:16 wen
Serait-ce le même poteau défaillant qui a causé la mort d'un dogue argentin par éléctrocution alors qu'il urinait? Je ne retrouve plus l'article mais je m'en souviens

alerter 22/09/2008 14:21 carole raphaelle davis
Pour "Fafa"
Je sais bien que nous sommes pas aux USA. C'est evident, Nice est beaucoup plus belle que Los Angeles et c'est pour cette raison, parmi d'autres, que je me suis installee ici.
Pour repondre, je sais que mon chien a ete electrocute parce que dans mon travail pour la defense des animaux, j'ai vu des animaux electrocutes dans des laboratoires et dans des usines a fourrures. Alors je connais trop bien, malheureusement, les symptomes d'electrocution. Et le veterinaire me l'a confirme ici a Nice.
Pauvre Lamby, je lai adopte de la fourriere municipale de Los Angeles, il a deja tellement souffert, il ne meritait pas que ca lui arrive!
So vous voyez que votre chien a eu un malaise, qu'il hurle et devient rigide pour une minute ou plus, c'est fort possible qu'il a recu un choc electrique.
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What happens when dogs get adopted from the shelter

Here we are in the south of France, near the Italian border. We are enjoying the Riviera spaghetti-eating championships. I am world champion title holder and I send my worst regards, my most virulent pasta wind to the a-hole who dumped me at the shelter in California.

Sarah Palin Pulls Herself Up By Her Own Bra Straps

Last night, we went to a big Obama fundraiser at the apartment on the first floor, where my Maltese neighbor bitch lives. She barks at me every time I pass her front door. All the Americans that are voting for Obama from France were there and this woman named Nancy Pelossi was patched in from Washington to talk to us on the giant screen. She seemed pretty nice but she didn't say anything about dogs at all.

Even though we're all the way over here in Nice, France, Europe, we can't get away from this election stuff.

Dad's on a rampage because of Sarah Palin. He thinks McCain is going to get elected and then his skin disease will kill him, making the hockey mom president of the United States.

Dad: "She's 'ready?' She thinks she's ready? Why? Just because she's confident? She thinks she can deal with Russia because she can see it from Alaska? Hey, I can see the moon! I'm not confident I can get there. I can see Martin Scorcese's house from our house but I'm not confident I can direct a movie. I guess she's confident because George Bush is confident and she thinks that's all it takes. I'll say this, though. George Bush got where he is because of his father but Sarah Palin pulled herself up by her own bra straps."

I really hate her because she likes to kill animals for fun. I've seen pictures of her smiling, kneeling over animals she just killed, like it was fun. Finley and Lamby think she's creepy because she thinks Iditarods are cool. They're not. We dogs hate it. I'd like to strap her to my king sized dog bed and force her to drag me around in the ice from Alaska to Grandma's house in Manhattan. See if she likes it.

I'm really mad at her about the way she treats wolves, too. Wolves are my ancesters, although she doesn't know that because she believes the world is flat and that there's no such thing as evolution. She's not too nice to bears either.

Le Lac de Saint Cassien in Provence, where Dad rants about politics and Lamby swims.

On the way home from the lake, Mom and Dad wanted to stop in Tourettes, just because the village is named after a mental disorder. All the people up there were barking like dogs and swearing, their tongues hanging out. Looked normal to me.

Here's a picture of Sarah Palin's parents at home, surrounded by dead animals. Just over their TV, there's a gruesome decapitatied animal that looks just like my boyfriend Lamby. Some people are are so mean. I might have to go to the post office and send them a package of French dog poop.

Pets of Bel Air Lawsuit is now Class Action

After months of protests by animal welfare advocates, Pets of Bel Air must now defend itself in a class action lawsuit that claims it defrauded customers by claiming the dogs were not from puppy mills.

Pets Of Bel Air Lawsuit Expanded To Class-Action Status
From KNBC:

BEL AIR, Calif. -- A fraud and false advertising lawsuit, which alleges that a Bel Air pet store sold puppies that later became sick or died because they were bred in so-called puppy mills, was expanded Tuesday to a class-action case.
Dec. 2007 Video Images
The ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John P. Shook means the buyers of nearly 800 puppies at Pets of Bel Air between Dec. 28, 2003, and the present will be joined as plaintiffs.

Read full article from NBC here. And please do comment, as it shows KNBC just how important this story is.

And now, I hand over the mike to Jinky, who is growling about puppy mills in the south of France at the moment:

Boy, oh boy. Pets of Bel Air is in deep cat poop now! Being in this class action lawsuit is like they are up to their eye balls in a giant 5000-cat litter box that has never been changed.

Before we left for France, we were protesting up there and the owners were really mean. One guy tried to knock the video cam out of my uncle Chris' hand. A friend of the owner even called my mom a "prostitute." (Only Dad is allowed to call her that and he doesn't even though all he ever talks about is how much he pays for everything.)

So me and my friends peed on their window a little, right under the teeny chihuahua infants. I know those puppies will get sold and that people will love them, but their parents are in prison in a factory and that's why we were there and that's why all my friends are STILL there and that's why we are never giving up, not until these pet factory fronts stop it and all my brothers and sisters are freed from factories and pounds and sleeping on couches with people who love them LIKE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LOVED, OK? That means, NO MORE WIRE CAGES!

This lawsuit thing is the biggest bone in the world, so big nobody can even think of how to chew it. I met tons of people who bought sick dogs up there and the Pets of Bel Air people are going to have to explain to the judge why they lied to people about where the dogs were from and why the dogs were so sick. And now, more people than ever are going to come out, just like the termites in our deck around the pool and they're going to put big question holes in ALL the stores in L.A.

The problem for these dog and kitty dealers is, there is no exterminating protesters and law suits. Our dog movement is getting really strong. Do you know how many ex death row (from the pound) pit bull friends I have? And their moms and dads are lawyers.

There is a big farty wind of change blowing through puppy mills and broker facilities and pet stores around the world right now. I am in communication through fart signals with dogs in Missouri, in Oklahoma, California, Pensylvania, Arizona, Ohio, Belgium, Hungary and France we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.

Here we are, protesting in Nice, France.

So Go L.A. !

Here's me and my mom explaining how to get a pet factory front to quit it!

Chien Électrocuté Marchant sur le Trottoire Par Courant "Vagabond" à Nice

Cette lettre (dessous) envoyée au Procureur de Nice apres l' électrocution de mon chien, qui se promenait avec moi, en laisse, la Rue de France, à Nice. Mon pauvre chien Lamby, un Bichon, qui a eu une vie tres dificile avant de venir habiter avec nous (regardez plus bas dans le blog pour son histoire, il est de la fourriere municipale de Los Angeles) n'a pas mérité ce malheur. Il en est presque mort...

Si votre chien a subi un choc électrique sur le trottoire, contactez moi ici sur "comment" et nous allons faire le necessaire.

Nice, le 8/26/2008

Tribunal de grande Instance de Nice
Place du Palais
06357 - Nice Cedex 4

Monsieur,

Samedi, le 23 Aout, 2008, mon chien a été électrocuté par un courant “errant” ou “vagabond” devant la boutique Charmelle au 63 Rue de France, ici à Nice. Il a survecu heureusement et je l’ai amené de suite chez le véterinaire Docteur Chave (Rue Lamartine) qui m’a confirmé que plusieurs chiens ont été electrocuté jusqu’a la mort par ce meme phénomène qui existe dangereusement sous nos trottoires.

En faisant des recherches sur l’internet, j’ai trouvé des centaines d’articles sur le sujet et c’est tres inquiètant. Dans toutes les villes, des chiens ont étés électrocutés comme Boston et New York, qui en ont accepté la responsabilité, sachant, après investigations des vieilles insulations de fils qui alimentent les reverbeurs, les lampadaires et autres, que des courants vagabonds peuvent envoyer des chocs significatifs aux passants. À New York, une damme est morte avec son chien cette année par un “stray voltage.”

Imaginons le drame s’il s’agissait d’un enfant marchant pieds nus devant cette boutique, et touché par des décharges électriques… Pour le moment ce ne sont que plusieurs chiens qui sont morts ici dans notre ville. Il y en a certainement beaucoup qui ont resenti des chocs sans que leurs maitres ne s’en soit rendu compte.

Donc, je vous écrit, Monsieur, pour déposer une plainte, en espérant qu’une enquête soit faite, et plus important, une recherche profonde des fils et courants dangereux sous nos trottoirs, a fin de trouver une solution. Je voudrais que vous sachiez, aussi, mes intentions d’ecrire un article (ou des articles pour des journaux et magazines Americains) sur ce sujet qui affecte les chiens et les personnes. C’est une bonne chose que ce soit arrivé à moi, qui suis journaliste, investigatrice et écrivain Américaine, spécialisée dans la défense des animaux car je vais attirer l’attention du public sur ce danger.

Je pense sincèrement qu’il relève de la responsabilité de la ville de Nice d’aviser aux endroits concernés (ou il y eu des incidents par example, Place Garibaldi ou il y a eu deux incidents durant les travaux) l’existence d’un danger d’électrocution. Et pourquoi pas faire paraître une annonce dans le Nice Matin. Je vous envoi également, avec cette déposition de plainte formelle, quelques articles en Anglais sur ce sujet (il y en a tres peux en Français) pour vous montrer que ce danger existe, est réel, et que d’autres grandes villes essayent de trouver des solutions.
Je vous remercie par avance de l’attention que vous porterez à demande. Dans l’attente de vous lire et restant à votre disposition, veuillez agréer, Monsieur, mes meilleurs salutations.

Carole Davis
www.hollywoodjinky.com

Dog Electrocuted by Faulty Wiring, Stray Voltage Under City Sidewalk --Chien Électrocuté Par Courant Électrique Sous le Trottoire à Nice

Lamby the Electrocu-tie Pie.

Poor Lamby! A terrible thing happened to him. We were walking on the Rue de France, in Nice, France, Europe and Mom was looking in the shop windows again, drooling over more shoes. (I think Mom has even more than there are trees in the woods but she always stops in front of shoe stores and we have to wait around, sitting there, bored.)

So there we were in front of the shoe store and all of a sudden, Lamby started to SCREAM! He was louder than a New York Fire engine. His mouth was frozen open, his tongue was hanging out, he was drooling, screaming and rolling on on his back in the middle of the street. We didn't understand what was happening to him! Mom thought he was having a seizure and all the French people came out of their stores to ask if he was OK but he wasn't OK at all.

Mom was crying and picked him up but he wouldn't stop screeching. She thought maybe he had caught his bad foot (remember? He was badly injured when we got him from the pound. His back feet had been badly broken and all the skin was missing). Mom called Dad on the cel phone and he came running to carry Lamby back home.

It turns out, Lamby had very bad luck. He stepped on an electrical plate on the sidewalk and got zapped! Lamby was electrocuted! He was shaking and had pooped on himself, he got zapped so bad. Mom took us to see Dr. Chave on the Rue Lamartine, who told us that one of his patients DIED from being electrocuted by faulty wiring under the sidewalk. Dr. Chave was very aware of this problem, which happens in cities all over the world. Read the NY Times article about dogs being electrocuted just taking a walk! Or this article in the Boston Globe.

Our friends in Hollywood have all been calling to find out if Lamb's OK.

Rachel, the Pissed Kitty, left us a message: "Like he needs a higher hairdo!"

They are supposed to insulate wires under the sidewalk--the wires that light up the street lamps and other stuff so we can see when we take our walks at night. But the wires get old and they don't even know that the electricity can be conducted under the cement right up into our feet! People don't feel it because they wear shoes that protect them from it. But lots of dogs have gotten electrocuted. I guess it will take a bare-footed human brat to get killed by old, un-insulated wires under a sidewalk before anybody does something about this. Only certain kinds of humans care if we dogs get hurt.

Read this article about how a simple walk on a sidewalk could kill a dog! I wish that hadn't happened to Lamby, who's had such a hard life until we adopted him. He's gone through so much already with his broken feet. He didn't need more pain in his life.

Lamby is better, but we were all really scared. Mom went to the CHARMELLE shoe store (63 Rue de France, Nice, 06000, France) to tell the owner that they need to put up a sign to warn others. The lady who owns the store didn't even care. She refused to give Mom the name of the building management. She never asked how Lamby was or anything. She practically kicked us out while Mom was explaing that Lamby was almost killed by dangerous electrical currents right in front of her shop.

Mom is making a complaint to the Procureur de Nice (City Prosecuter). You know what's really weird? I was talking to some of my dog friends at the park today after we got back from the vet and a lot of the dogs know about it and jump over electrical plates so they don't get a nasty jolt. My friend Ouati, a dog who lives on Rue Alphonse Karr, told me she got electrocuted and she ALWAYS walks around the elctrical plates. Her mom also thought she had stepped on her foot or something.

I was so worried about my boyfriend Lamby, I had to drink half of Mom's beer just to calm down.

We're going to be really careful now because those electrical plates are everywhere! We might have to totally un-hippify ourselves and wear booties, like those celebritard dogs in Beverly Hills. Mom will have to shop for doggie shoes now. I hope she won't make us wear high heels or whory strappy sandals, like the dumb shoes she wears.

French Whore House and China's Olympian Cruelty to Dogs

My boyfriend Lamby is in France! Mom and Dad and Finn let me bring my boyfriend to Nice so now we are truly a Euro-Pack. Here in France, we have a ménage à cinq (that means five of us doing the humpo-rama)! We're very bad here, worse than in L.A. and we're peeing on all the historical monuments in Nice together.

I don't know if you know this but Lamby is a Bichon Frisé and that's French for Gay, Floofy, French Poodly, Pooftah. This town is FULL of these frou-frou dogs. These frizzy fagdogs were bred for the French royal court but I know where the Lamby really comes from--the pound in L.A. I have to remind him sometimes and put him in his place because his head is so used to getting coiffed, it's getting too big.

There he is, up there on the marble table, getting coiffed, for, like, the millionth time since we got to France.

The Nice, France, Europe house is full of action lately. Mom has had some interesting guests/whores from Los Angeles staying with us. I had to check under one of the whore's sleepy shirts to see what's going on up in there. Weird. Looks like some kind of left over shrimp dish.

My wife Finn likes the whores well enough but doesn't approve of how much they've been drinking. See that beer? It's called 1664. That was how many beers they drank in a couple of days. They couldn't stand up but I hear that's normal for Irish whores.

See? Mom is so drunk she can't even focus. It's a good thing they're having fun while they can. There's a war brewing very close by. There are dogs in Georgia sending very alarming fart signals about the Russians coming into their territory.

Mom's been watching the Olympics but I don't like what's going on in China either. I'm hoping the the American athletes kick their butts because the Chinese clubbed a whole bunch of stray dogs to death near the Olympic village so it would "look nice" for the press.

Whether they club dogs or sell them all cut up in butcher shops is the same to me. Mom told me that when she went there (she used to go to China a lot but stopped because of the way they treat dogs) she saw lots of puppies crammed into baskets. They were for sale in the butcher shop to make stew. The Chinese don't get any gold medal from me. I'm sending my most pungent farty bomb in the direction of Beijing.

Paris Hilton is a celebritard who buys puppy mill dogs

My name is Amber-May and I am a puppy mill survivor. I was used for many years as a breeding mom, working for the boss at World Kennel USA, in Littlerock, CA. They tortured me there and sold my babies to pet shops. Please don't buy our babies in pet shops or on the Internet because it only encourages these bad humans to keep us imprisoned. We deserve better than to be treated so badly. I was sick, used up and almost dead.

I don't know why celebritards like Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian and Denise Rchards buy our babies. It's wrong. They should adopt from a shelter or adopt a used puppy mill mom like me instead. They are just contributing to animal cruelty.

Now, I live in a beautiful condo in West LA with my new mommy, Arlene Sax. She loves me. Finally, somebody loves me.

Pure-Bred Puppies on Sale! There ain't nothin' worse than being somebody's bitch in canine super-max prison.

There ain't nothing worse than being somebody's bitch in Canine Super-Max Prison.

Hey you, dummies who buy pets on the Internet and in pet stores (puppy mill fronts), you gotta wise up and learn where your puppies are from. Hint: they're not from a "private, small breeder" where the mommies and daddies are romping through meadows. No way. Lemme tell you, these pet stores that are selling my doggy friends get them from doggie slave internment camps. Those places are worse than the pound because at least in the pound, you might get adopted (I'm one of the lucky ones who made it out of there alive). In a pet factory, you NEVER get out, forget about getting adopted. In a puppy mill, you're in a cage for life with the meanest people on the planet. And when you can't make puppies anymore? They kill you.

Don't worry, I won't show you the pictures here. You wusses can look without wincing. But somebody's got to teach those celebritards Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Denise Richards and Kim Kardashian that they should adopt dogs and cats, not pay puppy mill fronts in Beverly Hills and Bel Air! What kind of pinhead buys a dog when they are killing 4 million of us in the shelters? Come on! Save a life, will ya?



My Mom explains it in these Rescue Roundtable shows from Doggy TV, produced and directed by Jeff Fleiss.

Posh Puppy in Beverly Hills Closes following Puppy Mill Scandal

You can read the West LA article by Kelly Hartog here: http://westlaonline.com/wcnp_article.php?articleid=9

Posh Puppy in Beverly Hills Closes Following "Puppy Mill" Scandal
By Kelly HartogEditor, BHCNP

Photo credit: Jim Bursch
The Posh Puppy pet store in Beverly Hills is now closed



Photo credit: Carole Raphaelle Davis
Millie: Just one of 300 dogs rescued from World Kennels USABEVERLY HILLS -

It's taken almost five months of active campaigning by animal rights organizations, but on May 7, the doors of the Posh Puppy pet store in Beverly Hills were shuttered and a 'For Lease' sign was placed in the window.

The brouhaha began back on December 22, 2007, when the Humane Society of the United States, The Best Friends for Animals and the Last Chance for Animals organizations, spearheaded by local actress, writer and animal activist Carole Raphaelle Davis, held a protest outside the Posh Puppy store at 9699 Wilshire Blvd., to make passersby aware that pet stores, including Posh Puppy are merely fronts for puppy mills, that keep their dogs caged in inhumane conditions and breed them until they die."We chose Posh Puppy for its location and visibility," Davis, who has been a spokesperson for Last Chance for Animals for 19 years, told BHCNP.

"This is the place where people buy teacup puppies and we chose December 22, because it was the Saturday before Christmas, which is the biggest puppy-buying day of the year."That protest turned into a weekly sustained movement, where locals, activists and celebrities turned out to make people aware of the shocking treatment dogs undergo in puppy mill kennels. The protests were also designed to encourage people to adopt dogs from shelters. "At least 25% of dogs in shelters are purebred animals, and many of those---particularly the teacup dogs--- are those who were originally from puppy mills," said Davis.

The boon in teacup puppies that can go for up to $4,500 each, has inadvertently been bolstered by the likes of celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears."I think that [these three girls] alone have done more harm to dogs than anyone else in recent history," Davis said. "These dogs are not fashion accessories, but millions of little girls want to emulate these celebrities."

While the protests went on weekly outside Posh Puppy, Davis along with other animal activist organizations was deeply entrenched in an undercover investigation seeking out the puppy mills that supply stores such as Posh Puppy. That investigation uncovered that one of Posh Puppy's suppliers was World Kennels USA in Littlerock, CA. Authorities raided the kennels on May 2 and removed 302 breeding dogs being kept in severe inhumane conditions.

One of those dogs was Millie ---a 10-year-old Maltese, who is now being fostered by Davis at her home. Millie was so- named by Davis because she was a puppy 'mill' dog. This is the first time Millie has ever been outside of a cage in her entire life. She is scrawny, emaciated, has a urinary tract infection and eye infections. She curls up on Davis's lap and is constantly craving human comfort.

"It's taken five days for her to trust me," says Davis. "When we rescued her she was shaking, trembling and terrified. Her vocal chords were cut in the kennels so she couldn't bark." Millie's story is not uncommon. She's just one of the hundreds of female dogs who have been kept for eight to ten years in a cage, and have been bred twice a year. "People should know, that the cute little puppies they buy in these pet stores have mothers who have been kept in horrific conditions for years," said Davis. "It costs only $67 to adopt a puppy from a shelter," she points out.

BHCNP's interview with Davis took place on the morning of May 7. During our interview, Davis received an email that revealed Posh Puppy's doors were closed and the For Lease sign was posted outside. Davis let out a squeal and shouted 'We did it!' before high-fiving this reporter.Altercations between the protesters and Posh Puppy's store owners John and Michelle Yoon have been common over the last few months. The Yoon's have protested throughout they were running a legitimate business and purchasing their puppies from reputable sources only. However, as of May 7, Posh Puppy's doors in Beverly Hills have been closed, mail is piling up outside the door (including a vet bill from Brent Air Veterinarians) and the store's phone remains unanswered).Posh Puppy has a second store in Tarzana. Calls to that store by BHCNP also remained unanswered.

Davis says while many pet store owners, managers and employees are fully aware of the conditions of the dogs that breed the puppies they purchase, there are also plenty who have no idea of the cruelty and horror the dogs go through. "They don't visit the kennels, they don't ask questions and they trust the organizations that have beautiful Web sites showing dogs being well taken care of. Nothing could be further from the truth," she scoffs. "Which is why," she adds, "it's so important for us to educate the public and make sure they adopt dogs from shelters."

In the meantime, Davis's enthusiasm at the closure of Posh Puppy and the raid on World Kennels USA is a little guarded. "This is bittersweet for us," she said. "We're overjoyed at the newfound freedom of these [302 rescued dogs], but that's just one kennel and one store. There are hundreds of thousands of dogs suffering in terrible breeding facilities, and our hearts bleed for them."BHCNP is continuing its investigation into the puppy mill phenomenon with a series of articles. Please check back shortly for more in-depth reporting on this issue.
2008-05-07
Comments:
carole says:THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! WE WON'T STOP UNTIL ALL PETSTORES SELLING PUPPIES DON'T EXIST.
Rory Freedman says:Thank God for Carole Davis and all the other activists who took the time and energy to educate the public about puppy mills. That they managed to shut down such a heinous, cruel operation is a testament to the fact that educated consumers want nothing to do with such barbaric, inhumane practices.Real animal lovers know: Animals should never be purchased!

Ed Buck says:Carole just lit the fire in a field ready to burn. To those of us who have been volunteering in rescuses, we often dreamed that we could "do something" about puppy mill vendors. The formula for this store closing was one part activist action (that felt good), and two parts consciousness raising (that did more good).

Capri says:As one of the proud protesters, I am thrilled that this "little shop of horrors" is now closed. I think it is critical to make sure this info (article) is WIDELY cross posted, especially to our children and their friends. Children need the truth to educate the adults who are sometimes to busy to care about God's precious creatures. Spread the word: "Puppy millers love MONEY, not Dogs"! We will prevail for those who have no voices!
Capri says:P.s. Final comment. "Every dog (or cat) deserves a home and every home deserves a dog (or cat)"

carole Raphaelle Davis says:So many people were involved with this investigation and sustained campaign. All the folks from LCA, Best Friends Animal Society, HSUS, Animal Alliance and tons of volunteers. It must be noted that we never wanted to shut them down. We want these puppy mill fronts to go HUMANE. They can sell the accessories, just not animals from pet factories, including cats, birds etc.I am so grateful to each and every activist who stood with us against cruelty to animals. Dogs deserve better than to live out their lives in cages. Now, thanks to you, the public is becomming aware. To other puppy mill fronts in Los Angeles, I have something to say to you:Stop lying to the public about the provenance of these dogs. Stop playing semantics about "licensed breeders." The public is not as stupid as you would like. Go humane now or we are coming to you next. An average dog lover

Tina Clark says:Thank you BHCNP for running this story. It is SO important that everyone learns where those cute puppies come from. Thank you Carole and everyone who came out to the protests for making this happen. We are winning! We must keep educating the public, and shut down these horrible mills for good.

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