So tell me, dose ANYONE remember this raid at an Englewood, Illinois house back in March 2009?
It was big headlines, big news . . . for about a minuet.
“Cruelty charges after raid finds 67 puppies”
Some 70 puppies were found today living in filthy, stacked bird cages in the West Englewood neighborhood, officials said.
"There are dogs running all over the place," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who held an afternoon news conference outside the small home while holding a pair of shivering Chihuahua puppies in his hands. "I couldn't believe it: the chaos, the noise, the smell."
(Read the original story at: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/suspected-puppy-mill-raided-on-south-side.html)
Since the news media has less attention span than a nat, I will give you the update. Are you ready?
On 11/04/09 the defendants, David Hayes and Demetria Newell Hayes were found NOT GUILTY.
A veterinarian, that David Hayes and Demetria Newell Hayes knew, reported that the dogs were in good shape. Other friends of theirs testified that they came in every day and cleaned cages and played with the dogs.
So the question (well, actually, one of many questions that should be asked) is why did the police bother raiding the house in the first place?
Maybe it was it because the neighbors called about the crying dogs and the smell coming from the house? Was it because when the officers arrived they found deplorable filthy conditions? Uh, like for instance, the dogs were in bird cages that were stacked on top of each other, feces and urine running down from one to the other? Or was it the dead dogs found in the back yard?
If these two individuals were NOT GUILTY of cruelty then why were the dogs seized and placed up for adoption?
Why we ask? Because these two individuals ARE guilty of cruelty and greed. They are also guilty of murder.
Ah, but not according to our legal system, and after all, if we learn how to work this broken, non justice judicial system, then morality becomes subjective.
The Animal Crimes Unit brings these despicable human being into the system hoping that their efforts will eventually lead to eliminating such atrocities. Unfortunately, the judges and lawyers make sure that the criminals against morality are allowed to continue their sociopathic behavior.
By the way, the judge for the David Hayes and Demetria Newell Hayes puppy mill case was Mauricio Araujo. . . . Just in case you happen to see his name on a ballot come re-election time.
Now here is a question for John Q Public. All those who go to the pet stores to BUY animals. Those who choose to turn their eyes and minds away because they don’t want to know where their cute little puppies come from.
How can you live your lives not caring that the animals you have in your home are a result of unspeakable torture? A result of the pain and constant fear and the deepest sadness a creature can experience.
And what eventually happens to these caged “parents” of all those cute little puppies in the pet stores?
The people who run puppy mills consider these dogs livestock. When they are no longer useful they kill them. Euthanize you say? No. Euthanasia is expensive. They break necks or bludgeon them. Then their bodies are then simply thrown into fire pits or dumpsters.
My hat is off to those, few and far between, rescuers that attempt to deal with some of these puppy mills. A few, VERY few, puppy mills have allowed the, few and far between, rescuers to take the dogs that are about to be killed. The lucky dogs are the ones that are 4 or 5 years old. Those probably don't have sever health issues yet and are adoptable. The unlucky ones are the ones the "breeders" keep until they are too old and ill (tumors etc).
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
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