Good news here!!! :) :) :)

[CountAllVotes]

Every so often when I get to the point of thinking that no one in this world gives a darn about the puppy mills and the auctions being run by the Amish, I read this ongoing petition. It has given me hope!

Yesterday I went to read the comments again and WOW!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/846327093

It now says this:

>> IMPORTANT UPDATE: A HUGE thanks to those of you who signed our Petition, made personal calls and wrote letters to the CEO, Robert Restrepo, Jr. Because of YOU, State Auto has made the decision to discontinue their relationship with the Buckeye Dog Auction effective June 30, 2007!

This is just great news! Now the Buckeye Dog Auction has no bond to insure them! Hopefully soon the dog auctions will become a thing of the past. I've been pounding them for a year now and yesterday was the day I lost my sweet dog that had been so abused last year.

So there was indeed justice for her I am thinking now as the place these auctions were being held in Ohio was not far from the place where my poor girl was from.

:woohoo: in the meantime and also, I'd like to ask everyone to place take a second to hope that my poor girl that is no longer with us is in a happier place.

:toast: everyone! :)

and thanks to everyone here that has signed this petition (and others) as well.

On edit:
Comment #4756 says it all in a nutshell (IMO) btw:

>> The Amish are a major force in the puppy mill horrors, and are considered by many in animal rescue to be the most vile, evil people with no conscience or responsibility about breeding poorly matched animals. Genetics may be far too difficult for such people as they to understand. They beat, starve and breed animals until they die. Their version of Christ must be so twisted that there is no worry about ever mistaking the Amish for the Quakers.

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[Ellen Forradalom]

1. I had no idea

that the Amish were involved with puppy mills.

It might be stretch to call them 'evil,' however, and unlikely to bring them around to a new way of thinking about animals. I do hope they are obliged, or are persuaded, to stop this.

[CountAllVotes]

2. I had no idea either

unfortunately, I found out the hard way. There are little videos about the dog auctions and the Amish to be found on utube I noticed recently.

In any event, yes, they are guilty as all hell which is a place where any of them that are doing this to the poor pups & dogs belong.

And yes, I do mean this. It was so ugly what I discovered.

The Amish were driven out of Pennsylvania and the dog auctions were outlawed. They moved to the nearest place - the state of Ohio. There are dogs aplenty to be found in Ohio on known puppy mill sites like puppyfind.com sadly.

[and-justice-for-all]

3. Amish Bastards!!!

What a cult of sick fucks.

[CountAllVotes]

4. they are disgusting

www.amish.cc

Makes you proud to NOT BE a damned Amish huh? This a-whole here (or is he more than one person?) sells on puppyfind.com under various names ... :grr:

What a bunch of FREAKS!!!!!

:kick:

[flvegan]

5. Please visit the Prisoners Of Greed site

http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/

Hearts United is an excellent group of folks. I'll speak for them. They've helped us, and I like to think we've helped them.

Good people.

[CountAllVotes]

6. Prisoner's of Greed is a great site

I have one of their t-shirts in fact! :thumbsup: to them! :D

:kick: