A bad situation when you have the above ground wire bottom change because that sort of tells us that the person is trying to be very efficient. This is a Business People are never profit for an initial outlay of a couple 100. 00 for a few breeding pairs you can be selling puppies for a 1000. 00 or more apiece if you breed every heat cycle which is not what youre supposed to do but which many millers do you could be making tens of thousands of dollars within a couple of years they were housed in chicken coops take one dog so theres probably more dogs and chicken coops no the use of the road trip. They make money and dogs being born. They rarely see of that. Thats are expensive and expensive and that would cut into their profits as far as selling the dogs. Its not good its really not. Not a good place for going there. Is a night that i o. Is on the internet and some mouse and he came over me and said i want a puppy so i googled. Up his online. Delivery person called me to set up a day in time what time the dog would be arriving and he said you know i would like cash upon arrival not a check and that was fine so he would 1st wanted me to meet him at a rest stop off the new jersey turnpike. I just cut him off right there like that was not im not end up on the island is not happening. I know i know somethings are right and that was one of them. Im not a nervous person im not scared of many things but i was nervous because my children were inside and this guy was delivering a puppy 11 oclock at night in a van that reeked of cigarette smoke i said this is a street my house and i dont have a real address so he said thats fine ill call you on the street mr i run it a clock he scored and said he was running late and showed up at 11 so it was very fast he called he was out front i ran outside on the street and he got opened his it was a van he opened his van and there was all crates of dogs puppies in the back and he picked out rufus and he said heres your dog. 2 pieces of paper came with the dog and that they looked like i could have printed off the computer but thats i didnt know any better so i just assumed it was fine. About the dog and it was late so i just put. Im able to play with him for a little bit but he was super tired and he just looked like he wanted to go to sleep so i put his bed in his crate and cry it was weird because when i had puppies before they cried in a crate the 1st time he did make a sound that was like the best dog every doesnt make noises perfect baby and look up to a dog that was basically having seizures going to the bathroom and throwing up either is going to die. In it that i you know is its only 24 hours but you buy it is a person you just feel super bad for its a baby in you just want to help it. He starts making this horrific sound like hes yelping in pain out of nowhere like just laying down just making this terrible sound off and on he said this isnt normal and then he threw up and had diarrhea and i said im going to take him to our family that im thinking that i cant believe that somebody was in this dog here that sec and this is all the money that were going to spend and this is crazy because i had no idea what to expect as they said they could stay there for days to get better and i was just i was worried about the money i was worry about the dog at the same time after spending 2 days at northstar being treated for hypoglycemia rufus was able to return home at the initial examination the veterinarian the care for rufus certified he was unfit for purchase. Rufuss crosscountry journey began in millers burg ohio on a farm owned by moses troyer this is how i am after i buy the dog after hes delivered then i start googling most rare then is when i start and then i was like what is wrong with you why wouldnt i really thats how naive i was i thought it was going to be perfect and then then i start googling and i hindsight was like i need to find out where these parents are like i was disgusted less than 2 weeks before nicole purchased rufus on line tours the u. S. D. A. License was cancelled currently no u. S. D. A. Or state commercial license is issued for this address ive got like giving up a couple times a day said no ones call me back this is so frustrating but then i kept thinking it wasnt about the money it was the fact that this was a life that no one cared about. They are just like oh take the puppy that was 6 weeks old 5 weeks old away from its mom and to shove it in a van with creeps her and then called a day like no one cared. Of state highway 53. 00 in the middle of ohio this is a puppy mill not unlike the one that rufus was likely born and its where his parents will remain until theyre unable to produce the puppies and profits expected by the owner theres no Natural Light no human contact except for the red pickup that stops by want today to scatter food and fill water bowls unregulated and under the radar. Was. Often we find that on the east coast that many of the puppies are coming from what we call ground 0 for large scale volume bring puppy mill breeding and thats Holmes County and it is really the heart beat of where a lot of the puppy mills and a lot of the issues have started in the state of ohio when you consider that they have 43000 population and you have over 500 canales thats a lot of camels for the number of people in that general area. And Holmes County alone and 200720088 was a 9000000. 00 business. Now when you consider that the average Family Income for a family of 4 is probably less than 30000. 00 in Holmes County thats a considerable amount of on production that is coming out of that particular area in amish country. Rufus his journey to new jersey is similar to the one thousands of puppies travel from Holmes County ohio in the years since rufus arrived at nicoles house and the driver has made multiple journeys to the east coast delivering puppies sold on the internet from puppy mills throughout Holmes County. Theres times where we here where the puppy was actually transported by someone just like john public and they load him into a vehicle and so when the puppies arrive its not unusual to have a vehicle full of puppies and some of those puppies are very sick and some wont make the trip whatsoever they just assumed ban puppy mills places they always meant like the mall the puppy store in the mall or the puppy stored inside the street i just never thought that it was like on the internet i really thought when i bought rufus that he was in pennsylvania running through a field happy night didnt think it was a puppy mill dog at all. Pennsylvania farmers began breeding dogs probably about 30 or so years ago there were actually breeders in missouri who came up to pennsylvania specifically because of its large amish and mennonite farming communities here we had one of the worst states for puppy mills i we were called the puppy mill capital of the east and that was primarily because pennsylvanias number one industry is agriculture. In the minutes are more likely to view these animals as cash crops as Agricultural Products weve heard that over and over again and i believe that to be true. Not all amish families or not all minimally families breed dogs but the large majority the overwhelming majority of the people that we deal with the breeders are from illinois it was something that farm families could do between when you harvest in the fall and when you plant the spring. As commercial kennels cropped up across pennsylvania in the late 1960 s. The welfare of the dogs trapped in puppy mills was not viewed as a priority of the Pennsylvania Department of agriculture inspections were few and far between the regulations were ill defined and the program was clearly underfunded so the regulators were completely tied by the laws and just to the vagueness of all of them so what we really needed was in forcible measurable standards you would see inspection reports time and time again where a warden is morning operator to do something. And this didnt go on for like one or 2 inspections in a years time youre talking about years and years of warnings for many of the same offenses there was so much opposition from within the industry itself that the regulations were just going nowhere. And it became very apparent that we had to do a legislative fix. What politicians do so. They put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and. Want to. Have to go right to be press thats what im up for 3 of them or cant be good. Im interested always in the waters about how. This should. Nato the defensive alliance that has shaken several countries its a union of the supposedly like minded the cold agree on what the main threats of its the appeared to me of military might that said to be both in great shape and brain dead at the same time as the organization celebrates its 70th anniversary is a fine sign for it just think about whats on. His community there are people who believe that its ok to sell for x. Food on my table its really hard there are no jobs and you see that ive got kids that ask and as a parent. I can come up with lots of arguments theres a lot of conflict in the game between the most of the conflict i would say. That money is made. Close one on each other on each other this could be just the state of california alone to make 6000000000. 00 a year off to prison complex just to get some 20 a life where. You dont care about your so your care might anything. Throughout the years efforts to improve the lives of dogs in pennsylvania puppy mills would ultimately die in the legislature at the hands of powerful lawmakers it was not until a simple billboard was put up in Lancaster County that the general public began to learn of the problem our 1st billboard we made it look like a postcard and we had a family in our car and they were all waving across the top and yellow script just like a postcard and said welcome to our county home to hundreds of puppy mills and we received over 3000 phone calls and emails in 2 days and the majority of those phone calls came from people who lived in Lancaster County who were thanked us for finally doing something about what their neighbors were doing i think the issue gained a lot of traction through the media you know more reporting on the issue it became sort of something that was that was out front it was no longer confined to you know what happened behind the party doors after witnessing the overwhelming response to their billboards in pennsylvania main line Animal Rescue placed a new billboard this time near Oprah Winfrey studio in chicago when we were on oprah and the aftermath we watched up here in the kennel i realized that it really didnt matter what the legislators wanted or what they didnt want because people started contacting us and people were horrified horrified by what was happening in Lancaster County it was happening in pennsylvania what was happening in missouri and oklahoma nebraska and they couldnt believe that animals were being treated this way and they wanted to do something about it. This was 100 percent public it was really because people were hearing about the plight of puppy mills on the news on oprah reading about my dog and it became very very personal to a huge number of people who. Started picking up the phones and calling their legislators through this whole struggle and it was a struggle and it was hard it was very very difficult i never lost sight of the fact that the people have the power to change things and when the legislature realized that they did not want to go home in an election cycle and face the constituency wondering why didnt you do something about this the bill got legs and this was a 2 year long is like 2 to 3 year long legislative battle in in pennsylvania many of the dogs that the law of was was pushed through many of the law the dogs that we wanted to protect are now that so im hoping that its that the dogs the future dogs the dogs that are in these places in the future are helped by what weve done but most of the dogs the majority of the dogs that we wanted to help are gone now and they never got the relief that they deserve or that the law enforcement. Only Union Boilermaker out of pittsburgh. Despite every free town life i have is basically in their own work and and im working a 10 hour shift im working on saving dogs. Everybody has their own little parts and i think that was that was my call and you know go into the mills and thats what i want them to dogs so i know their laws are covered in your and theyre covering and theyve got at least what id like to do is take them in and hold on my head on to say theyre a bit touched a they you know ok so i mean i dont mind they go all over him because i want to separate dead were different you know youre leaving that life and i want their you know the rehab to start as soon as we take the dogs. And its sad because you cant save all said it hurts i mean theres plenty of nights you stay up at night and you can sleep or they go rescues or you know deal with the puppy mill dogs know that i mean honestly you know its costly running through your mind about the dog you left behind i dont want to know i went to the guys bringing the dogs out in there so many dogs inside the puppy mill that when the dog started barking when he went in to get the dogs the side of the barn was actually shaking. Theres no force was good they suppose he this year and last year in kind of both kinds of vein ohio made a lot better but there they they passed the walls but no ones in force and. A lot of people think when you say rescue dogs from puppy mills i think we went in to the born down take the dogs but thats thats not good because the because mills are legal i think a lot of people dont understand that you know these puppy mills are legal theyre allowed to explain to him how you know we wait for the amish to contact you know then we set up a day when we can go get the dogs and then you know will load up the. Ours you know them will drive you know made on their property get the dogs. I mean. I dont know about. They said all that all that all they want is luggage or yesterday. You heard not. In my name is eugene deep ask well you know im the pennsylvania Auditor General. We make sure all money is spent legally ineffectively but we also audit state programs so its not just a question whether the financial side of it is the you know the the account ledgers or matching up but also what is the effectiveness of the program so we get to go in and say ok the money might have been spent legally but was it spent effectively it was a program run effectively while inspections and prosecutions dramatically increased after the pennsylvania dog law came into force within a few years noticeable concerns began to emerge i started to receive reports confidentially from within department reaching out to me dog wardens administrators people who had worked for the department and had left that are an area. Who were concerned that the new head of the office of dog law had no idea what she was doing so reviewing inspection reports and in 2011. Indicates that there were virtually no citations issued just like any other law its only as good as the enforcement of it and early on in in the law there were some concerns that it wasnt being enforced properly so and the audit of the dog or program began. In a scathing report Auditor General di pascali found the dog law program from its introduction in 2008 through 2012 showed an intentional lack of enforcement of the states dog law and the commercial tennille canine health regulations. We were enforcing the law in the can mean the partner agriculture said this during the audit that they were enforcing it because they knew the kennels werent complying is say that again they were enforcing it because they knew the kennels werent complying but the goal of the law is to get people not to do it the goal of the dog law was not to find champs it was to get kennels do improve the conditions in their facilities. For the animals thats the goal of the program and we were getting the troops ready to really make a huge deal out of the lack of enforcement of this berry popular law and all of a sudden there was a 180 in the department and theyd hired a director of enforcement who was one of the best dog wardens that weve ever seen but here is the the big big issue and its not just this its anything we do the People Matter who are running the programs right now i think the Administration Made significant strides into who is running the program but the people that are actually running the program sometimes you know that there are faceless bureaucrats to the general public and i understand that but the actual individual whos in charge matters and its important governors where they began. Mark radical republican the no i just put people in because of the considerations but also the qualifications of the individual but i do think that that is the case now that you are a top notch professional there and that i think is a big reason why youre starting to see a turnaround in approach. While progress has been made the challenges of regulating and inspecting licensed commercial breeders and finding unlicensed breeders in pennsylvania continues in the heart of Lancaster County millwood kennel aka millwood puppies provides a prime example of the bureaucratic shell game played by some large scale breeders. David and iommi stalls fus have been breeding dogs on their property in Lancaster County since the early 1990 s. Having obtained both a pennsylvania license and a u. S. D. A. Commercial breeders license from 2003 onward pennsylvania inspection reports clearly indicate dogs were suffering in a facility that was not meeting even minimal welfare standards after a further string of harangued us inspection reports in 2008 david still sfusd voluntarily relinquish both his pennsylvania and u. S. D. A. License but the dogs remained at the same puppy mill though the name was changed to millwood puppies and ownership passed to davids son matthew stills foose matthew quickly obtained a u. S. D. A. Commercial breeders license at the same address. Immediately the violations continued under the new license when millwood puppies was inspected in october 2009 the violations were so severe that the commonwealth of pennsylvania brought multiple charges against matthew for violations under the dog law. Before pennsylvania district judge isaac stalls foose all charges against matthew were summarily withdrawn and all cases closed in 2010. At no time with the dogs removed from the facility by either state or federal authorities. Around this time matthew found a new very lucrative avenue to sell his puppies the internet since 2010 its estimated that matthew has sold over 3000. 00 puppies online ranging from 3022800 dollars each in 2013 alone millwood puppy sold 472 dogs more than a dog a day during this period matthew maintained a pennsylvania kennel license but in january 2014 he applied for a new u. S. D. A. Commercial breeders license for millwood puppies l l c this was the 3rd u. S. D. A. Commercial breeders license and the 2nd pennsylvania license issued for this one address in the past 8 years i think one of the most remarkable things that we actually were able to illustrate on the oprah show that one of the dogs that we picked up from know what chemicals. It was either know what kind of time or millward obvious it was a yellow out a male yellow lab and ill never forget hes a really beautiful dog but he had never been off water for it its a beautiful beautiful yellow lab and the amish breeder now if you stop astride the dog government we put back the dog up and put a dog in the band and we put the dog down on the solid floor and in the lobby he started to walk like he had never been here ever going to south or again he started walking up a wall he tried to walk up a wall of our lobby because he had never been on solid before and its just amazing to me that they would expect an animal to live in his or her entire life unpaid for wire flooring and they wouldnt do it themselves. Matthews large scale puppy breeding business was not his only interaction with the u. S. D. A. During the same time period he was receiving farm subsidies from the u. S. D. A. The total 56624. 00 in commodity subsidies associated with. His dairy farm Lancaster County pennsylvania has a total population of a little over 536000 residents from 1995 to 2012 farmers in the county have received 100 28000000. 00 in taxpayer funded farm subsidies from the u. S. D. A. An extensive investigation for this film found numerous examples of u. S. D. A. License commercial breeders receiving multiple violations from the Animal Health the vision on one hand and large taxpayer funded farm subsidies on the other while the programs are viewed as distinct and separate by the u. S. D. A. The fact remains that license commercial breeders with multiple dog welfare violations continue to receive taxpayer funded farm subsidies in Lancaster County and many other rural areas throughout the United States these commercial breeders are exploiting a federal agency by receiving a taxpayer funded handout while simultaneously receiving major violations for failing the dogs in their care. 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