Happy Ending in Puppy Mill Case!!!

[MaxJack'sMom]

Last week a puppy mill in the town of Pepitone, Ill was raided and shut down. There was a large number of dogs in filthy cages stacked high on top of each other in a storage area heated only by a small heater.
The dogs were taken to local shelter and today, after 7 years of being caged, one little white dog is going home to its original owner!!!!
The shelter had cleaned up the dog and were getting it ready for adoption, when they scanned it for a micro chip. The micro chip gave the info of the owner, they were contacted and are now getting their pet back.
The dog had disappeared out of their yard 7 years ago and figured the dog was dead by now.
What a happy ending to such a horrible experience this little one has been through.
They showed alot of the little dogs taken, and most of them looked like either Maltese, Poodle, Bicon breeds.
Owners must remember to watch their pets at all times, how horrible to think where they end up when stolen.

[Morkie4]

SEVEN YEARS??????????? Wow, just goes to show you how important microchipping is! All three of mine have had it done and I have it checked at their annual checkup to be sure that it is still there.

How wonderful that another puppymill has been shut down!!! Now that is something to get excited about!

GREAT POST CHERYL! THANK YOU!

Now to my happy dance!
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[Alana]

Pet adoptions blocked
Peotone puppies caught in legal limbo, can’t be adopted today

March 8, 2008
BY KIM JANSSEN Donna Vickroy and Shenequa A. Golding, Staff writers
It was billed as the happy reunion of a stolen puppy and his loving owner—the perfect heartwarming story for the evening news.


But it ended up as something more tawdry, the second setback in a day for animal welfare workers who rescued 50 dogs from a fetid Peotone puppy mill one week ago.

Lance, a Bichon Frise recovered from a suspected puppy mill in Peotone, waits for his owner to come pick him up. PAWS volunteers discovered Lance had a microchip that identified his owner as Mica Davis of Shorewood.
(Jason Han/SouthtownStar)
PHOTO GALLERY


Just hours after a Will County judge halted plans to put 49 of the seized puppies up for adoption, staff at the PAWS shelter in Tinley Park were forced Friday afternoon to hand back a brutalized 6-year-old Bichon Frise called “Lance” to the sister of the puppy mill owner, Nikima Wright.


As a steady stream of would-be adopters were turned away from the shelter on 191st Street Friday afternoon with the news that Judge Robert Lorz had delayed the adoptions for more than a month.


Wright’s sister, Mica Davis, walked out the front door with sad-eyed Lance, who PAWS staff say almost certainly was used as a breeder at the mill.


Davis was contacted by PAWS staff earlier this week after Lance’s electronic identification chip revealed she was his legal owner.


And when Wright filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the 49 dogs be returned to her, Judge Lorz made PAWS’ tentative agreement to return Lance to Davis an order of the court.


Only then did it emerge that Davis was Wright’s sister, according to Tinley Park Animal Control officer Karen Schutt, a board member at PAWS.


“There’s no way she should be getting that dog back,” Schutt said “She must have known what was going on at her sister’s place.


“But we had to do it — it was the judge’s order.”


Davis claimed her sister “always loved animals” and that she was confident Lance had been properly cared for.


The media was “dogging (Wright) out,” she said, adding that she had left Lance with her sister while she traveled.


Wright’s attorney, Anderson J. Ward, said the confusion about Lance, who originally was reported as stolen, showed “how mixed up this case has gotten,” adding that the remaining 49 dogs Wright wants back are “worth $21,300; it’s a straighforward property case.”


In the immediate aftermath of last Saturday’s raid, SouthtownStar reporters saw — and smelled — the dogs, whose coats were matted with urine and feces.


But Ward said the dogs were properly cared for.


“The dogs were well looked after, and what (authorities) are saying about that isn’t right — what the judge has done is just giving us time to prove that.”


The delay putting the remaining dogs up for adoption until an April 16 trial has put a strain on the shelter, severely limiting its ability to take in abandoned animals and to raise funds by selling the dogs.


Larry Draus, of the Cook County sheriff’s police, one of the investigators who made the bust, said, “Now that these dogs are going to be there for a while, PAWS, as a not-for-profit organization, is going to need all the help they can get.”


Kim Janssen can be reached at kjanssen@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5998.

http://www.southtownstar.com/832107,0308satpuppies.article


Not such a happy ending after all for Lance. It appears.
How sad. I hope the authorities are watching out for Lance, and making sure he is in a safe home setting. And if not, to remove him immediately to insure he does not once again end up in a puppy mill living in deplorable conditions.

[MaxJack'sMom]

Yes, unfortunately I saw this article in the newspaper last night!!! I was so mad I couldn't think straight!!!!

What is wrong with these judges? That poor baby needs to be away from them.

[Morkie4]

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(There is no such thing as Justice these days!:mad: