WARL Stories: Help the Survivors of the Arkansas Puppy Mill
The Washington Animal Rescue League has been nice enough to become a TNG sponsor. However, we have to give them something back. This shelter constantly takes in and finds home for some of this city’s cutest and most loving animals (it’s where I got my dog Neko), and right now they can use our donations more than ever. Here is why:
Acting on a tip, the local sheriff department and the Humane Society of the United States raided a Lamar, Arkansas puppy mill and found 83 small-breed dogs and 6 cats in dire shape. The animals were malnourished, sick, infected with parasites and covered with feces. Though they are now at The Washington Animal Rescue League and out of immediate harm’s way, their road to recovery is far from over.
The League is keeping the animals properly fed and giving them the medical care and socialization that they need to become the companion animals they were always meant to be. However, such care is not cheap. The dogs exhausted the shelter’s supply of canned food within a day of being brought in, for instance, and they require special training to become accustomed to cruelty-free life in a home.
Still, it is a testament to the League’s dedication that all these dogs will be given special attention. You can donate to the League at this link if you would like to help the Arkansas dogs. They need every dollar they can get, but with your help, they can complete their lives as warm, clean, well-loved family pets.
Please consider donating money to the League at this link. Thank you.Â
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The Washington Animal Rescue League is a non-profit organization with a mission to find permanent, loving homes for adoptable homeless animals while providing them quality care. A recent $4 million renovation makes it a unique shelter, painstakingly designed from the animals’ point of view and one of the most humane animal shelters in the world. Since 1996, the League has also operated a full-service, low-cost Medical Center for the companion animals of low-income area residents, making it the only facility of its kind in the mid-Atlantic region. The Medical Center also treats companion animals of its adopters and offers free spaying and neutering to anyone living within the Beltway. Founded in 1914, WARL is the oldest animal shelter in the metropolitan area. The League is located at 71 Oglethorpe Street, NW, Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.warl.org.
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It is nice to know that there is an adoptable homeless animals and providing them quality care. They really need care from humans and we all know that Dogs are best friends to human. I am a pet lover. Thank you for the post.
I agree with most of what your group doe’s but in this case you are so far
off base about these people it’s not funny. I lived only a few doors down from
these ladies and know first hand how hard they worked keeping food- toys-and love that were given to these Dogs daily. It is so easy to pass judgement on someone with just what one might see, I was part of taking these two Woman all over the place trying to get anyone who cared to come out and take a few of these dogs off their hands. Even the Lamar Police told them to quit asking the general public for Donations stating that if they wanted to care for the dogs that was great, but that they could not sit in Lamar city limits asking for any
type of assistance with their little Doggies rescue group. Though their place was dirty me and several other neighbors helped remove 30 full Pick up Trucks
crammed to the limit of old furniture-car parts-and piles of Garbage from their property only weeks before the Humane Society of the United States raided their place. Why is it when normal folks step up to the plate to help animals no one else wants to help they always get more public attention
about the little bad they do compared to the huge good that they do. I agree
that they were way over crowded with Dogs, BUT the way it was portrayed
only showed the bad! what about All the dogs that were NOT matted-dirty
not one word was shown- brought up about this was there. It looks wonderful
to put on the television a story about two ladies who had over 80 dogs when
you only show the worst cases, never once showing the other 65 dogs that were
fat-healthy- well cared for dogs. The Humane Society of the United States
new in order to get the viewers attention they needed to put the worst possible dogs on T.V to get the medias attention, and it worked those women
were trashed never being allowed to tell their side of the story.
Again I agree that they had more dogs than they could take care of ,but
why would not the many local Animal Rescue Groups around Johnson County
and Pope County who brought out to their property Boxes of home made dog cookies and 10 bags of dog food on 8/5/08 step up to the plate and take some of these dogs off their hands when they were asked?. Answer me this where was help for these woman who opened up their hearts and home then when they begged these Animal Rescue Groups to take some of the dogs then? I’ll tell you they were bringing dogs out to these woman on more than one occasion
stating how wonderful they were for taking in so many when no one else would.
This lady was one of the biggest in helping the two women “Furry Friends
Guardian Angel” Jan Plant who use to operate out of her private home in
London Arkansas, she delivered News Papers in a battered S-10 pick up truck to supplement her income while housing over 60 dogs in her private house.
It’s ok though when she does the exact same thing that these other women were doing, though had you seen the condition of her house you may have just as easily thought the same about her. The people of London ran her out not wanting the “Dog Lady” as they called her living in their town any longer
they could smell the odor coming from her house and the filthy condition of
the cages littering her front yard and car port. Yet a Magazine hails her
efforts when she buys a old filthy Hog farm in Hector Arkansas where
she moved her operation, though she owns 40 acres just south of Hector its filthy. So I guess this is acceptable though, Jan houses over 152 dogs thrown out together in wired off runs, small dogs with large ones , where they have gotten in to massive fights.She might have forty acres but why does not the
mighty Humane Society of the United States go raid her place? is it because she is U.S.D.A. Governed? does this make running a 100% PUPPY MILL ok?
is it alright to hail her a saint?she now calls her little operation the
Humane Society of the Greater River Valley, check this place out that she
calls a dog refuge.Come on Humane Society of the United States lets see
your big guns with this place if you really care about the care of abused and neglected dogs,here is the address should you have the “BALLS”
1011 Rock Spring Loop, Hector Ar. 72843 step up to the plate.
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