Bailing Out BenjiComments Off on Why Steve King’s Win is a Loss for the Animals
On Tuesday, November 6th, 2012, when the world was watching the election between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, I was focused on a local election. The race for Iowa’s fourth Congressional District between Steven King (R,Kiron) and Christie Vilsack (D, Ames). What started out as a close race, grew further apart and, ultimately, ended in many tears from… Read more »
Bailing Out BenjiComments Off on Bailing Out Benji Presents Iowa’s FIRST State-wide Puppy Mill Awareness Event
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 »
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 »
A Name At Last by Lisa Hindle Deppe, DVM In a small town in the country is a barn with a rooster top. A farm unlike the other surrounded by crops. Inside a metal building lies cage by cage by cage filled with puppies and dogs. Their bodies worn beyond their age. In this cage sits number “Five”. She awaits… Read more »
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 »
“Don’t judge a pup by its color!” While there is no known proof that “Black dog syndrome” exists, many rescues and shelters are plagued by this depressing occurrence. Black dogs and cats are among the last to be adopted in shelters, and first to be euthanized. According to the National Council on Pet Population, approximately 3-4 million dogs are euthanized each… Read more »
Want to see a puppy mill for your own eyes? Everyone has differing opinions of what a “puppy mill” is. Some breeders say that it is a derogatory term, much like a racial slur. Other breeders say that the “AR”s (or Animal Rights Activists, as they refer to us) are using it as a blanket term to cover anyone that breeds… Read more »
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 »
TOP TEN PEEVES DOGS HAVE ABOUT HUMANS ’1′ Blaming your toots on me… Not funny… Not funny at all! ———————————————- ’2′ Yelling at me for barking. I AM A F-R-I-G-G-I-N’ DOG ————————————————– ’3′ Taking me for a walk, then not letting me check stuff out! Exactly whose walk is this anyway? ————————————————– ’4′ Any trick that involves balancing food on… Read more »
In this day and age, the term “puppy mill” is becoming a blanket term for all dog breeders. I don’t think that this is very fair. I have met many reputable breeders in my lifetime and they don’t deserve it… But on the same token, I have seen MANY USDA licensed breeding facilities that have brought me to tears because… Read more »
