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Activists protest outside purported puppy mill

'End this canine hell'.

Owner says kennel has passed inspections and houses 75 dogs, not 450 as claimed

CHERYL CORNACCHIA, The Gazette
Published: Monday, May 29, 2006

Animal welfare activists from across Ontario and Quebec descended on this small western Quebec farming town yesterday demanding the provincial government shut an old factory they alleged houses more than 450 dogs and operates as a puppy mill.

As many as 100 protesters who had travelled from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto spent three hours in the midday sun shouting ''end this canine hell'' and waving placards with pictures of sick dogs, dogs with their paws caught in their cages and maggot-ridden carcasses - all of which they claimed had been taken inside the facility by a former employee.

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Merci! Je n'avais pas vu cet article. Par contre, CBC a fait un reportage qui a passé dans leurs nouvelles locales du lundi 29 mai à 18 h. Au moins, cela a été couvert par les médias mais seulement les médias anglophones ont écrit ou passé les reportages à la télé...

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Au moins, cela a été couvert par les médias mais seulement les médias anglophones ont écrit ou passé les reportages à la télé...

C'est souvent cela qui arrive et je n'ai jamais compris pourquoi !

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''No one loves animals more than me,'' a déclaré le proprio




En tout cas, félicitations pour cette manif et,
au fait...


Annjos

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Un article vient de paraître dans le "Suburban":
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No plans to close breeding facility: town

By Diodora Bucur, The Suburban

STE. JUSTINE DE NEWTON— Carol Dubé, the mayor of this small farming town 65 kilometres west of Montreal, says there are no plans to shut down a breeding facility in their community, which animal welfare activists claim is a puppy mill.

Shouting “Puppy mills have got to go” and “Don’t buy from pet stores,” about 100 animal-rights activists from Quebec and Ontario rallied last Sunday outside the breeding facility in Ste. Justine de Newton. Activists charge 450 dogs live here and are being abused.

“We never had problems or complaints against this facility,” said Dubé, who said he was not aware of the rally.

“If the dogs are mistreated then we have to see [check] with the SPCA and Anima Quebec,” added the town’s director general Denis Perrier. “We can’t close it just like that... We don’t have the power [to shut them down].”

From a front window, rows of cages were easily visible, with the larger dogs housed in fenced-in enclosures and the smaller dogs in cages placed on top of each other.

There were no apparent signs of mistreatment, but activists talked of a different reality. They showed pictures of a dog with its paws caught in the cage grid and dead dogs left to rot inside cages next to living dogs, photos that were taken by former employee Gilles Potvin.

“They put one breeding female in with two or three males and one of the males killed another male,” said rally organizer Nicole Joncas. “It reaches the point where the breeding mothers, after they had three litters, they turn on their puppies, they kill their puppies ...They are prisoners of greed from birth to death... They never hear a loving word or feel a loving hand. They are just like a commodity.”

Joncas added that the breeding facility has operated here for 35 years, but the current owners only purchased it in 2005. Since then she has been trying to shut it down without success.

“I feel that if we can expose this for what it is, hopefully those who have the power to implement the laws to stop things like these, we gain something,” she continued, adding that Anima Quebec inspected the facility months ago.

“They had to put heaters in because the dogs were dying of pneumonia, they were covered in frostbite. But by letting mill owners know they are coming to do an inspection, they have time to cover it up.”

Potvin, who lives next-door to the facility, says he took the pictures between February and June of 2004.

“The animals are not cared for and there is no veterinarian who comes here,” he said. Potvin also said the animals are not attended to over the weekend. “The dogs are abandoned here.”

The facility is owned by East End-based Lamarche & Pinard Inc. Co-owner Pietro Ruscito denied the activists’ claims, saying they only have 75 dogs.

“It’s bullshit, it’s not a puppy mill, it’s a breeding facility,” he said. “Anima Quebec came in six months ago and everything is in conformity with the law.”

Asked whether he would give the Suburban reporter a tour of his facility, said: “Why would you want to see it? Mr. Potvin worked there before I bought it,” he continued. “What he says is not true ... I don’t know where he took those pictures.”

Meanwhile, Anima Quebec spokeswoman Nicole Blouin refused to disclose details about the case.

“Even the names of people who file complaints are anonymous,” she said. “All files are confidential.”

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“It’s bullshit, it’s not a puppy mill, it’s a breeding facility,” he said.

C'est quoi la différence ???

Asked whether he would give the Suburban reporter a tour of his facility, said: “Why would you want to see it? Mr. Potvin worked there before I bought it,” he continued. “What he says is not true ... I don’t know where he took those pictures.”

S'il n'a rien à cacher, pourquoi alors a-t-il refusé au journaliste d'aller visiter les lieux ?

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Effectivement, Animal