<![CDATA[Jezebel: animal shelters]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: animal shelters]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/animalshelters http://jezebel.com/tag/animalshelters <![CDATA[Dog Day Of Summer]]>

[Ramle, Israel; July 10. Image via Getty]

RAMLE, ISRAEL - JULY 10: An Israeli girl pets a rescued dog at the 'Let The Animals Live' pet shelter on July 10, 2009 in Ramle, Israel. Animal welfare activists say that in Israel thousands of pets are dumped at the roadside as families go away for their summer holidays, while in Europe the numbers of animals abandoned in the holiday season can climb into the hundreds of thousands across the continent. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5311930&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Oprah Investigates The Bad, Disgusting Business Of Puppy Mills]]> Warning: Much of the clip at left is difficult to watch. It features an undercover investigation of the way dogs are reared and abused in puppy mills, which are legal businesses that mistreat dogs, using them to churn out as many litters as possible in order to supply those cute, fluffy puppies you see in pet store windows. Oprah was prompted to do this show after billboards in Chicago by Main Line Animal Rescue urged her to. MLAR rescues animals from puppy mills, nurses them back to health, and places them in good homes. An example of this is Shrimp, the Maltese/Poodle mix in the still seen above left. He was on death's door when MLAR intervened and nursed him back to health and happiness.


Related: Gaining Ground In A Decades-Long Fight To Shut Down Puppy Mills [Humane Society of the United States]
Adopting From An Animal Shelter [HSUS]

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