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Hearts United for Animals (HUA) is a no-kill shelter, sanctuary and animal welfare organization dedicated to the relief of suffering. Based in Nebraska, HUA has even been honored by the Smithsonian Institute for their innovative programs.
The Puppy Rescue rescues puppies from certain death and sends them to great homes in the Northeast. Over the past eight years HUA Puppy Rescue has saved the lives of over 8,000 puppies!
Jet Set Dogs rescues dogs from pounds in many different states and sends them to good homes all over the country. This HUA program has placed dogs in 45 states and Canada so far! Hearts United for Animals also operates a Spay/Neuter Program, and a Community Outreach Program.
PUPPY MILL UPDATE from HUA
We get many of the publications from the pet breeders industry so that we can keep tabs on what they are doing. A constant refrain that there are very few poor kennels. They claim that the animal welfare organizations are making up stories about the mills. HUA has rescued hundreds of dogs from puppymills in many states. Things have not gotten better. The dogs are not in better condition. The kennels are not in better condition.
Recently HUA rescued 11 dogs from two puppymills in Iowa. Every single one of these dogs had physical and emotional problems. April had an inguinal hernia that was the size of a grapefruit. All of her reproductive tract had fallen into the hernia. Catherine's little paws had been cut on the wires of the cage and she left bloody footprints wherever she walked. Several of the dogs had wounds where the kennel owner had tried to cut off mats of hair and had cut their skin. One dog
had c-section stitches that were months old. Several had skin
conditions. Many had terrible teeth. Many had ear infections. Two had uterine cysts. Two of them had collars that had grown into their necks. Many of them were despondent. They weren't so much afraid of us as they were unaware of us. They were lost in their own world of depression.
 Lacey sat and barked at the wall for hours. Nine years in a cage had taken her mind. She was adopted by a family and had three weeks of love
before she died of congestive heart failure. These dogs are not the exception, they are the rule. You can visit their webpage, see their photos and read their stories at
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org
Click on Iowa 11.
While you are at the prisonersofgreed website stop and look at the Gallery of photos of some of the hundreds of dogs who have been rescued from the mills. They tell the truth about the mills.
Our experience tells us that the best way to shut down the mills is by telling the public the truth about the mills. If the public learns that puppies in
pet stores come from puppy mills, they won't buy them and the mills will close. We have created ten posters that can be downloaded from our webpage. The posters have been saved in a pdf format. You can print them on any color
printer. We are asking everyone who loves dogs
to download these posters and to Paper Our World (with apologies to Chicago for stealing their lyrics).
Please hang these posters in libraries, vets, doctors offices, dentists, schools, colleges, post offices, businesses, grocery stores. There are public bulletin boards all over. Get creative. Go to
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org
Click on Posters. (We like Poster10 best.) Thank you!
To give people more facts and figures about puppymills, HUA has created a thirty page booklet. You can download the booklet at our website at
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org
Click on Mill Booklet.
Only One Story
 Cassidy was a precious little Yorkie who had been rescued two years ago from the Snider mill in Nebraska. He had been debarked by shoving a metal pipe down his throat to rupture his vocal cords and when he barked he sounded like a little bird. He had a crooked leg - it had been broken when it got caught in the cage wires. Since he never received treatment for it, it mended crooked. Cass was only about 6 or 7 years old but the time in the puppymill was very hard in him and he had congestive heart failure. When he came to us the vet said he would not live more than a few weeks. But Cass had an enormous will to live and was so happy with his new life, there was no stopping him. For two years anyway. He lost his fight last week.
For Cassidy and many others like him, we thank you very much for caring about the dogs.
Best wishes,
Hearts United for Animals
http://www.hua.org
http://wwwprisonersofgreed.org
http://www.ihelppets.com
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