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Tracy Voss, founder of TracysDogs

Duncan — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:00:52 +0000

Tracy Voss—the co-founder of TracysDogs, a San Antonio, Texas-based organization that pulls dogs from high-kill shelters, rehabilitates them, then adopts them out to families across the country, transporting the dogs in their 32-foot trailer—discusses growing up as a dog devotee, and how a beloved black Lab significantly helped her navigate through a somewhat awkward, isolated […]

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Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone contributing editor

Duncan — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:00:41 +0000

Paul Solotaroff—Rolling Stone contributing editor who wrote a wide-ranging, high-profile exposé about the netherworld of puppy mills in the then-new issue of the magazine—discusses how he came to write the piece, sort of goaded into it by Humane Society of The United States CEO Wayne Pacelle, after Solotaroff completed another Rolling Stone investigative opus about factory […]

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Michele Lazarow, activist against pet stores selling puppy mill dogs

Duncan — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:00:10 +0000

Michele Lazarow—a Hallandale Beach city commissioner and activist who has helped pass numerous laws across Florida preventing pet stories from selling dogs that come from puppy mills—recounts the dreadful experience she had in 2004 after buying her dog, Alfie, from a pet store, which misrepresented where the dog had come from, thereby launching Lazarow on […]

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Laura Fletcher-Taylor, co-Founder of Loving Friends Transport

Duncan — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:00:03 +0000

Laura Fletcher-Taylor—co-founder of Loving Friends Transport, a Clearwater, FL-based nonprofit that transports animals from overcrowded shelters in one part of the country to shelters in another part, where they stand a much better chance of being adopted; they also transport animals from such crisis situations as hurricanes, hoarding cases and puppy mill raids—discusses her longstanding […]

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Deborah Howard, founder of Companion Animal Protection Society

Duncan — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:00:08 +0000

Deborah Howard–founder and president of the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS), the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to protecting companion animals from cruelty in pet shops and puppy mills–discusses the pivotal visit to the Atlanta pet store more than 22 years ago that set Howard on the path to launching CAPS. She also recounts her […]

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Laura Flynn Amato “Madonna Of The Mills”

Duncan — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:11:27 +0000

Laura Flynn Amato–a Staten Island woman now credited with rescuing upwards of 5000 dogs from puppy mills in and around Lancaster, PA, and as such, is the titular figure of the documentary, “Madonna Of The Mills”–discusses how she learned of the puppy mills in Lancaster, chiefly operated by the Amish and Mennonite, and how as […]

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Bill Smith- puppy mill expert

Duncan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:22:57 +0000

Bill Smith discusses the history of puppy mills and more.

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