barking out for help on behalf of fellow wire fox terriers

dear friends, i am not sure if any of my wirey friends have already blogged about this, but i feel i need to do my duty to help my wirey friends who once lived and suffered in the blainville puppy mill outside montreal.

the spca montreal described the dogs as resembling "something straight out of a horror film" when they were first discovered.

there were over 100 of them in the puppy mill (a bungalow) when they were discovered two years ago. they lived amongst knee-high piles of excrement and were completely matted up, with some weighing more than three times their own body weight because of the excrement they were carrying in their matted fur. there were also corpses of deceased dogs in various stages of decomposition, which the living dogs were forced to feed on. the sight was so horrifying that some of the journalists who were present to cover the story began throwing up. sadly though, some of the dogs didn't make it.

can you even make out what this might be, had you not already known it to be a dog?

the case has recently been heard in the court. their breeder, marc-andre laporte, has been convicted on two counts of animal cruelty but he has, despite the conviction, asked to be restored custody over some of our friends who were rescued during that operation. the wire fox terrier network has been following this development and is outraged with laporte's request. axel's mommy has created an online petition entitled No Dogs for LaPorte and i hope you will all please go and sign it.

no one should live like that. but over 100 of our friends did, at the blainville puppy mill, crawling in a filthy sea of excrement and urine. although rescued, many of our friends continue to suffer from a whole host of infections and medical problems.

this horrible, horrible man must never be allowed to keep dogs again! we must not let anymore of our friends suffer under his hands! please come join us as we rally together to protect our friends! No Dogs for LaPorte!