Animal Advocates Speak Out Against Dog Auctions
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007More than 100 dog owners crowded a meeting to speak up for their four-legged friends. Last year near Thorp, a breeder held Wisconsin’s first dog auction. Since then, there have been two more there, including one on Saturday (June 2). Now dog lovers say they need to stop.
Meet Boogie, a beagle pug mix who’s had a rough start to life. Rescuers bought him this spring near Milwaukee; they say his mother was so stressed by horrible living conditions that she chewed off her own puppy’s foot.
“There’s usually 5 or 6 in a cage. They almost have to lay on top of each other to be in there,” says Kati Gruber, with the Dunn Co. Humane Society.
The state has no laws preventing dog auctions and concerned dog lovers say the animals sold at those auctions need help. People appealed to state legislators Pat Kreitlow and Jeff Smith to get a law on the books.
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