Hercules Our Puppy Mill Poster Child Wants Your Help

Hercules explores a backyard (mine) for the first time in his life. Before that day he had never seen grass.

Hercules is our tiny little curly bundle of hilarity. He came to us as a puppy mill rescue in the summer of 2009. Shy and scared he hid from us for the first few weeks he was here. He still has no trust for strangers, but has progressed to the point where he enjoys playing with his pack members, Samson (the biggest and youngest of our dogs)in particular, and trusts myself and my husband, although no other humans can get close to him. His disposition is understandable given the way he was treated in the first two years of his life. Hercules had no name until he came to us, he was just a breeder a commodity and was never given a name. He was kept crated all the time, and the only human contact he ever knew was being moved from one cage to another for breeding purposes.

When I first brought him into our home and set him down on the floor he froze staying in one place and one position for the first 45 minutes. He was simply too afraid to move. The rest of the pack finally brought him out of his shell but it would be months before we could touch or hold this little guy.

Hercules will live in our home until his last days. He will never be rehabilitated enough to live in the ordinary home, his puppy mill experiences caused far too much damage. He is happy here with us and here he shall remain. Had he found his way into a shelter after the raid on the puppy mill he came from, he would have been euthanized as unadoptable.

Is the life of this little dog not worth more than that? Why should he and others like him lead a life of abuse to line the pockets of people with no morals or respect for life?

Animals like Hercules all over the country NEED you to help change their fate. Please sign the petition to ban retail sales of animals in Canada and ban the operation of pet mills. You owe it to the animals to speak up and be heard. Here’s the link:

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40090.html

As you will see I have signed, and authored this petition, you asked me to do something, and I have responded. Please show Hercules and I your support by signing it as well especially if you are Canadian. Changes can be made but not without YOU!

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE

Janette