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Fifty-year-old Tucson resident Kim Flaherty is on her way back home after celebrating a victory for dogs in Michigan, where she helped lead a four-day sit-in of the Missaukee County Sheriff’s Office that prompted officials today from three other counties and the sheriff’s department to rescue all of the dogs whose suffering was exposed in a PETA undercover investigation into an area puppy-breeding operation.

Photos and video footage of the sit-in, which began with a protest outside the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, are available here and here.

Flaherty was one of nearly 20 PETA supporters who traveled to Michigan from across the country after Missaukee County Sheriff Wil Yancer refused to act on PETA’s video footage and photos of Jack Russell terrier breeder John D. Jones severing puppies’ tails with forceps and without anesthetics or pain relief as the animals screamed in pain. Dozens of dogs were confined to small cages outside, where they shivered in the rain and snow. The night before the dogs’ rescue, the temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees.

“Thanks to Kim Flaherty’s courage and selflessness, today, we can celebrate that these dogs have finally been rescued from the freezing cold,” says PETA Vice President Dan Paden. “PETA hopes anyone moved by their plight will never buy from a breeder and always adopt from a shelter instead.”

Animal control agencies in Clare, Roscommon, and Wexford counties and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources removed the dogs from Jones’ property. PETA is now calling for cruelty charges to be filed against Jones and urging the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development to investigate him and bar him for life from being licensed to breed dogs.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Thirty-four-year-old Phoenix resident Chandra Fuller is on her way back home after celebrating a victory for dogs in Michigan, where she helped lead a four-day sit-in of the Missaukee County Sheriff’s Office that prompted officials today from three other counties and the sheriff’s department to rescue all of the dogs whose suffering was exposed in a PETA undercover investigation into an area puppy-breeding operation. Fuller was arrested on Thursday for refusing to leave the office. Video of her arrest is available here.

Photos and video footage of the sit-in, which began with a protest outside the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, are available here and here.

Fuller was one of nearly 20 PETA supporters who traveled to Michigan from across the country after Missaukee County Sheriff Wil Yancer refused to act on PETA’s video footage and photos of Jack Russell terrier breeder John D. Jones severing puppies’ tails with forceps and without anesthetics or pain relief as the animals screamed in pain. Dozens of dogs were confined to small cages outside, where they shivered in the rain and snow. The night before the dogs’ rescue, the temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees.

“Thanks to Chandra Fuller’s courage and selflessness, today, we can celebrate that these dogs have finally been rescued from the freezing cold,” says PETA Vice President Dan Paden. “PETA hopes anyone moved by their plight will never buy from a breeder and always adopt from a shelter instead.”

Animal control agencies in Clare, Roscommon, and Wexford counties and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources removed the dogs from Jones’ property. PETA is now calling for cruelty charges to be filed against Jones and urging the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development to investigate him and bar him for life from being licensed to breed dogs.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Thirty-four-year-old East Lansing resident Alexandra Shapardanis is on her way back home after celebrating a victory for dogs in Michigan, where she helped lead a four-day sit-in of the Missaukee County Sheriff’s Office that prompted officials today from three other counties and the sheriff’s department to rescue all of the dogs whose suffering was exposed in a PETA undercover investigation into an area puppy-breeding operation. Shapardanis was arrested on Wednesday for refusing to leave the office. Video of her arrest is available here.

Photos and video footage of the sit-in, which began with a protest outside the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, are available here and here.

Shapardanis was one of nearly 20 PETA supporters who traveled to Lake City from across the country after Missaukee County Sheriff Wil Yancer refused to act on PETA’s video footage and photos of Jack Russell terrier breeder John D. Jones severing puppies’ tails with forceps and without anesthetics or pain relief as the animals screamed in pain. Dozens of dogs were confined to small cages outside, where they shivered in the rain and snow. The night before the dogs’ rescue, the temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees.

“Thanks to Alexandra Shapardanis’ courage and selflessness, today, we can celebrate that these dogs have finally been rescued from the freezing cold,” says PETA Vice President Dan Paden. “PETA hopes anyone moved by their plight will never buy from a breeder and always adopt from a shelter instead.”

Animal control agencies in Clare, Roscommon, and Wexford counties and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources removed the dogs from Jones’ property. PETA is now calling for cruelty charges to be filed against Jones and urging the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development to investigate him and bar him for life from being licensed to breed dogs.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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This morning, officials from animal control agencies in Wexford, Clare, and Roscommon counties and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources entered the property of John D. Jones, a backyard breeder operating under the name JRT John’s Jack Russell Terriers, and removed all the dogs in his custody. Video footage of authorities leaving the property with the dogs is available here.  

The action comes as a result of a recent PETA undercover investigation into JRT revealing extreme abuse, neglect, and apparent violations of state law and a four-day PETA sit-in at the office of Missaukee County Sheriff Wil Yancer—peaceful protesters had arrived in Michigan from across the country to call on the sheriff to seize or render aid to the 34 adult dogs and seven puppies, many of whom were left outside in pens as temperatures dropped to minus 5 degrees. During the week, Yancer met with Jones, who left smiling and scoffed at the protesters, shoved one of them, and had two of them arrested for refusing the leave the office at 5 p.m., even though the building was open to the public 24 hours a day prior to the sit-in. PETA is now calling for cruelty charges to be filed against Jones and urging the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development to investigate Jones and bar him for life from being licensed to breed dogs. Photos and video footage of the sit-in, which began with a protest outside the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, are available here and here.

“It took four days of dog defenders giving up their jobs and home lives to protest Sheriff Yancer’s inaction peacefully, but these suffering dogs have finally been saved,” says PETA Vice President Daniel Paden. “PETA is rejoicing because Yancer finally did his job, and we thank the animal control agencies for seeing the rescue operation through, but we won’t rest until John D. Jones faces legal repercussions and a lifetime ban on possessing animals.”

PETA provided the sheriff’s office with video footage and photos from the group’s investigation, showing the following:

• Jones severed puppies’ tails with forceps and cut off their dewclaws with nail clippers, without anesthetics or pain relief—as the puppies screamed in pain.
• Nursing dogs and their puppies were confined to wooden boxes with urine-soaked straw inside a reeking, cluttered carport.
• Dogs were confined to small cages outside in snow and mud. They had been given only a few handfuls of straw per dilapidated doghouse, leaving them shivering in the rain and snow, and since the windchill dipped to minus 11 degrees, their drinking water froze daily. The animals drank immediately—sometimes for more than 60 seconds—when PETA’s investigator gave them water.
• Deprived of stimulation and exercise, the frantic dogs turned in endless circles and otherwise exhibited signs of extreme psychological distress.
• PETA’s investigator found one dog dead in a kennel with leaves and straw packed in his mouth. Jones hadn’t checked on the dogs all day and didn’t know that the dog had died. In the 11 weeks that PETA’s investigator worked at the kennel, he never saw Jones touch the dogs housed outside except to pick up the dead dog.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Blue is a gorgeous young snowshoe Siamese with kaleidoscope fur and sky-blue eyes.

Unfortunately, his stunning good looks didn’t prevent him from losing his home when his family had a new baby.

Sure, babies are cute, but they are noisy and smell funny, too, not to mention their affinity for grabbing anything within reach, including cats’ ears, paws, tails, and whiskers.

Since it’s in Blue’s nature to be as calm and serene as a tranquil blue lake, he was ready to welcome the tiny newcomer with open paws. But his family could tell that the baby’s ear-piercing squeals and grasping fingers were giving Blue the blues. Even though Blue tried his best to pretend that he was taking the changes to his routine in stride, the family feared the stress of living with a boisterous infant might literally worry him sick.

Wanting to keep Blue in the pink of health, the family approached PETA and asked us to place the gentle cat in a quiet home, where his true colors could really shine.

All this mellow fellow wants now is a true-blue friend who will give his life a rosier hue.

Would you like to be Blue’s new boo? Just give us a clue at Adopt@PETA.org.

Learn More About Blue and Other Adoptable Animals

Written by Alisa Mullins

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