Amen Elizabeth! You are not alone here! H$U$ has been scamming people for years! They are a marketing MACHINE that posts stories like this to raise more money. People believe anything they read even though there is no documentation or proof. Unfortunately, donors believe their donations are going to the animals but the sad truth it is NOT. You are right, only 4 cents of every dollar donated goes to hands-on animal care. H$U$ is a CORPORATE fund raising business that does not truly care about animals. Don’t believe me? Ask YOURSELF this question: Why has the H$U$ NOT reported Petland or any said breeders to the USDA or law enforcement? Good question! If these puppies were suffering, the breeders and Petland should be reported immediately! If you saw somebody mistreating an animal would YOU wait a few months before stopping it? I would hope not… Please be informed before jumping on board with H$U$...do the research and see why people are outraged with their business practices. H$U$ is about power and money…the H$U$ executive team enjoys spending YOUR donations on: Personal interest free loans Flying around the world first class to meet celebrities and getting face time on TV Flying their SPOUSE around the world first class on non-H$U$ related trips Hosting lavish fund raising parties Living rent free in H$U$ purchased 3500+ square foot homes Hiding expenses by donating to other “charities” they own $85,000 lake front vacation home renovations A VERY large legal team to protect their business …and unfortunately this goes on and on THE MONEY IS NOT GOING TO HELP THE HELPLESS ANIMALS THAT NEED IT! Be educated. Be informed. Put your passion where it is needed most...helping animals

Can anyone tell me what makes a dog breeder a puppy mill? Is it the number of dogs he has? Is it the fact that he makes money? Is it the fact that a dog breeder treats the dogs like the animals they are? The HSUS shut down a AKC judge who had two house dogs and no puppies, no dirt no filth. Has the HSUS gotten to you and said the dog breeders are the reason for the dog over population? Has the HSUS told you that the public is dumping dogs? Try this on, the animal rights movement has brought in over 500,000 stray dogs from third world countries. The kill count includes those dogs, the kill count includes all wildlife killed. Are you aware the HSUS is trying to close down all food chain animal breeders? Are you aware the animal rights movement is a front for the Socialist Party? Are you aware the AR movement wants all of us in a boxcar going to the camps. It's true and I can prove all of it.

Before anyone jumps on my post listed below, listen. This news article deals with puppy mills in Oklahoma that supply a national chain with puppies. Decent citizens would be outraged at the conditions of some of these mills. They’re deplorable. One of the threads below insinuated that Oklahomans should be proud of the OU Sooners. It that’s your cup of tea, go for it. However, the OU Sooners have nothing to do with the original article and they certainly do not cover up the fact that there are some things in Oklahoma that are just considered ass backwards and downright shameful. My original post was deleted for essentially saying the same thing as above, but another poster can tell me and others to GTFO of Oklahoma if we don’t like it? And you really wonder why Oklahomans are laughed at on the national level?

Wow, I say one thing about the pathetic OU Sooners not being the only thing in Oklahoma and newsok.com has a cow. Ever heard of Freedom of Speech? Way to go loser news media.

The other side of the story for the journalist who wasn't paying attention in Journalism 101 - KNOW YOUR SOURCE!!! 7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS (the Humane Society of the United States) 1. The Humane Society of the United States(HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups. 2. Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s2007 dog fighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch. 3. HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front(ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.” 4.HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million. 5. After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months. 6. According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work. 7. Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.” Want evidence? Visit www.AnimalScam.com • www.ActivistCash.com • www.consumerfreedom.com Revised October 2008. Complete sources and documentation available upon request.

Floyd, growing up my parent's had a country home and the summers we spent there had the same thing going on: dogs dropped off to fend for themselves because their owners didn't want to take care of them anymore. Sadly, we had to shoot several of them because they would "pack up" and attack our cats or "run" the neighbor's horses. If you tried to stop them with anything less than a twelve gauge, they would turn and attack YOU. We felt sorry for them, but the deadbeat owners were the ones we were angry at. As you say, it should be a felony.

Floyd, you are right, it should be a felony. What you said just breaks my heart!

Love it: "They do not operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the U.S. To the contrary, over the last 10 years, Petland has adopted out more than 270,000 homeless puppies and kittens nationwide.” Duh! Of course the ones they sell are "homeless." The only reason they exist is to be used as another inventory item. If it weren't for the pet stores that do business with puppy mills, these poor animals wouldn't exist, so the stores are responsible for the very existence of these poor things. They come from the puppy mills as just another inventory item -- you know, a "thing." And "things" don't have homes. What's more, if you take a "thing" home and get tired of it, just dump it somewhere like an old pair of shoes. I used to take photos of the dumped "things" that ended up at an animal shelter for a newspaper to try to get people to adopt them. Let me tell you, it breaks your heart to look in those eyes that are often so frightened. Had a lot of conversations with the man who ran that shelter, and the stories were horrendous. Three of our dogs have been pound doggies. They weren't cute pups when we adopted them, but they were the most loving, loyal, devoted companions you could want. All Heinz 57, of course. All lived to a ripe old age and were family members. All our kitties have been strays, by the way. Again, all family members. Need a dog or cat? Go to the local shelter or animal rescue group. Those are the REAL homeless ones.

Jeez, what a bunch of losers. Most of you seem to hate everything about Oklahoma. Yet, you ARE HERE. So sad that you do not have the strength, brains or ability to get out of this hell-hole (sic). I have traveled and lived in many parts of the United States. I choose to live in Oklahoma. People in my personal and business world love Oklahoma as I do. Sorry your world is so dark and dismal. I have this image of 50 or 60 of you complainers sitting in front of your screen, writing trash about Oklahoma, desperately hoping somebody, anybody will listen to your subconscious pitiful cry of entrapment and loneliness. And no, I do not go to OU, OSU, or NBA games. .

Lea, thanks for the info. But removing children and abusing children are two different things. Oklahoma County has over 4000 kids in foster care right now. That's more than several states combined. Regardless if we are 1st or 2nd this year (and believe me, I understand that statistics work the way the statisticians want them to) there are BIG issues in this state that need to be addressed in those areas. We tend to put our efforts into areas where they don't need to be placed. We aren't the only state, but child abuse, domestic violence, and incarcerations of females are hot buttons with me. I have always adopted my pets from shelters (or take them in after they've been dumped on my friends' property). Carrie from Choctaw is right about how easy it is to get rid of puppy mills. Get rid of the demand and the practice goes away. Now, if it could be that easy to get rid of domestic violence and child abuse...

Amen Carrie! I rescued my 2 babies from shelters!

Oklahoma is first in kids dying for DHS placing them back in abusive homes. That's a fact.

Susan... Oklahoma is 21st in teen pregnancy according to the Guttmacher Institute. 1st in female incarceration, 2nd for removing children in abused/neglected homes.

Jeanette - here's "where in the world" I got it...http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20081126_16_A13_hAfirs413200

I have adopted my last 2 dogs from a shelter and they make wonderful pets.. most are just happy to have someone to go home with and to love them.. I will continue to get my animals from the shelters.. if we quit buying from puppy mills, they quit existing.. easy as that

I'm sorry, i just don't see how you can correlate football and puppy mills. That's just like me telling my wife dinner was just okay and her saying that means i don't love her. come on people. you're comparing apples to oranges. Trust me I see all the b.s. that the states legislators give us, but, how can we stop it. because believe me if i knew a way then i would be at the front of the line.

Thank you Rick. Ditto..

Have you watched the movie "Air Bud"? The kid takes the dog away from the owner and drops it in the country thinking it would be OK. When I farmed, dogs dumped on our farm averaged 4 per year. My dad didn't mind disposing of them nor did some of our neighbors. I knew I could not take care of all of them and we were not allowed to take them to the Kingfisher dog pound since we didn't live in town. Our only alternative was to shoot them when they came to our farm. Have you ever tried to kill a pet dog that loves people and would stand smiling at you, wagging it's tail? Those that weren't shot would be loaded with ticks and starve to death or join packs and kill easy prey like chickens or baby calves. No Amy, I don't think it should be just a misdemeanor, but a felony, as the packs are dangerous. But how do you catch the perpetrators? As Bob Barker said ...

Thank you Michelle! Ditto.

At the very least a $1000 fine.

Dropping off pets in the country, just because you are tired of them--should be a misdeameanor.

Susan, how in the world did you get the statistic OK is #1 in teen pregnancy, child abuse, domestic violence, etc? Have you ever been to such states as UT or ID? They have much more teen pregnancy, I assure you.

So by your standards we should not appreciate football because our state has other problems ? All states have good and bad points . Ashley , Ennis , And Susan .. There are 49 other states , if u dont like Oklahoma GTFO !

AGH! Just another way we look like country idiots! Its true all this state thinks about our precious football team, our sucky basketball team that we paid too much for, and that dumb indian statue on the capital that we still have not paid off yet, that you cannot even see! But yet, we paying our teachers and fixing our roads are just "not in the budget". this state's priorities are unbelievable!

You got that right Ennis. wonder how we rate as dogs drop off. When kids get tired of them take them to the country.

Who cares about puppy mills and child abuse and domestic violence or female incarcerations Oklahoma football was voted number one! Havent you lived here long enough to know thats the only thing that matters! Imagine if OU was concerned about education as they are their little football boys.Pathetic but true!

RESCUE is always a wonderful option!

One more glowing review for Oklahoma. #1 in teen pregnancy, child abuse, domestic violence, female incarcerations, and now...#2 in puppy mills. Is this a great state or what?

Pet Stores = Puppy Mills If you can't see the parents or the facility, it's a puppy mill. Reputable breeders do not sell on the internet or to pet stores.