To the editor: I share the disgust and disappointment over the pet mills reported in The Occasions. I wish to ask the individuals expressing this anger in the event that they eat meat.
The billions — sure, billions — of livestock raised annually for human consumption expertise the identical, if not worse, circumstances because the canines in pet mills.
Need to save the lives of those harmless animals? Undertake your pets from shelters and considerably cut back or eradicate your meat consumption.
Brad Nelson, Oxnard
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To the editor: It was troublesome to learn your articles on the illicit pet commerce. There ought to be a moratorium on importing puppies and younger canines from different states into California.
If individuals need to purchase a pet, there are respected breeders in California. Even so, you must critically take into account adopting from our native metropolis or county animal shelters or from rescue organizations first. Shelters are overflowing with adoptable puppies and canines.
I actually adopted two canines from a rescue group. Bandit and Crash had been my valuable boys for years.
As for these breeders the place the puppies come from, they need to spend a yr in a cage beneath the identical circumstances their canines lived in.
Yolanda H. Lickson, Cypress
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To the editor: I simply wished to thanks with all my coronary heart for the work your reporters did in uncovering this horror.
The Occasions is to be heartily congratulated on reporting that I hope strikes officers to take rapid motion and forestall additional animal struggling.
Rob Martin, Salt Lake Metropolis
