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Bailing Out Benji Presents Iowa’s FIRST State-wide Puppy Mill Awareness Event

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Iowa’s first ever state-wide  PUPPY MILL AWARENESS EVENT! 2012  Iowa has over 230 USDA licensed “puppy mills”, with over 23,000 adult dogs trapped in cages for the entirety of their lives! (This number doesn’t include the unlicensed mills that we often hear about in the news!) Iowa, alone, sells  over 100,000 puppies to pet stores and through internet sales… After… Read more »

Another Abysmal Iowa Zoo

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What started as two avoidable deaths due to heat, has now grown to a city-wide cry for help. The Oleson Park Zoo is a small town zoo located in Fort Dodge, Iowa. In its beginning it held many of the wild animals that you would find in Iowa, but it has since then branched into the exotic animals.  While they… Read more »

PAW it Forward!

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HOW CAN YOU HELP?? NEVER be silent about things that matter. If you see a dog trapped in a car, say something! Call animal control, call your local police, go inside the store and have them page the car owner… Do NOT assume that someone else will do it. We are their only chance for survival. Even 10 minutes on… Read more »

My Auction Adventures

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I did something that I have been trying to mentally prepare myself for since I started Bailing Out Benji… A small group of friends and I drove almost two hours to attend a puppy mill auction in Vail, Iowa. Thankfully, K-D Kennels owned by Dean and Karen Grell is officially OUT OF BUSINESS. After years of bad USDA reports, they… Read more »

Lions, Tigers and… Runaway Baboons?

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The Cricket Hollow Zoo in Manchester, Iowa is run by Pamela and Tom Sellner and it seems like a nice, small-town zoo. Their website claims that they have over 300 animals, each with their own name and story, and that the goal of the zoo is to “educate people about the many species of animals that we have here and… Read more »

Captain Planet Fights Puppy Mills

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One of my readers informed me that this video exists. I searched and searched for it and here it is! Does anyone remember Captain Planet? It was a show in the early 90’s that existed to spread awareness of global issues to children. Captain Planet has five “planeteers” and they are all kids who want to help save the planet…. Read more »