Just Sit There and Look Pretty ~ Puppy Mills, Pet Stores, and Animal Shelters

As an artist, I was given the challenge to create based on the phrase "Just sit there and look pretty!" I created a video documentary to raise awareness about the horrors of puppy mills, the pet stores who keep puppy mills in business, and the heroes in animal shelters and rescues who save them. You can download my piano recording of "Recuerdos de la Alhambra", which I arranged for solo piano and performed myself, at www.ReverbNation.com/DebbieCenterPiano. ALL proceeds of the sales of my recording will be donated to Headwaters Animal Shelter, in Park Rapids, Minnesota, in care of my daughter Deanna's fundraiser, "Deanna's Heaven". Thank you for watching!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Deanna's Heaven
• Headwaters Animal Shelter
• Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• Debbie Center
• puppy mills
• pet stores
• animal shelters
• animal rescues
• Francisco Tarrega

[dzeigfinge]

@1fgrandmotherjoyce- While kill shelters are the optimum-I will tell you something. I have worked at 2 different shelters. The dogs in these two shelters had the best days of their lives. It should not be blamed on the shelter but the breeders, the mills and the abusive owners that these animals (both cat dog snake and birds) are euthanized. While there might be some "responsible" breeders out there they are still contributing to the problem. Hard cold fact.

[Pianomam]

@dzeigfinge Excellent comment! I totally agree with you. No matter how the breeders treat the animals, the bottom line is, we shouldn't be breeding more cats and dogs when so many are dying every single day in shelters!

Thank you for working in the shelters, and thank you for watching my video and commenting!

All the best,

Debbie

[BrendaAvadian]

Debbie, wow that is gut-wrenchingly powerful. The pictures of the puppy mills-- caged breeding grounds with no opportunity to play or run in the sun. Very bad karma all around in return for profit. Thank you to Deanna for raising awareness of the cruelty with which we treat Man's Best Friend.

David and I are cat people--two came from a shelter in Milwaukee, WI and the other two adopted us after we moved to California.

KUDOS to Deanna! I am proud of her. She is a compassionate soul.

[Pianomam]

@BrendaAvadian

Hi Brenda!

Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a great comment. And thank you, too, for adopting your cats!

[firegirl221]

@1grandmajoyce why would you NOT buy from a kill shelter?!?!? those dogs are going to die and you could save their lives!!! just bc you get a dog from a kill shelter doesn't mean you agree with killing dogs! my two dogs were scheduled to be put down by their owner, I saved their lives by a matter of hours! the bond between us is so much stronger from that because they knew their fate, and they know that their lives are the best they've ever been now!!

[Pianomam]

@firegirl221 I definitely agree with you! And thank you SOOO much for saving your dogs! That's fantastic!

[Pianomam]

@suzahna I've been wondering the same thing. I read about professional and compassionate breeders who try to breed for the best qualities in dogs. I don't know how to word this, but I'm trying to keep an open mind about the breeders who do it with compassion. However, I agree that it sure seems like it would be better to just STOP breeding when we have such an overpopulation now! Thank you for leaving the comment!

[Pianomam]

I couldn't agree more ...

[superbeauthy]

disgusting....

[Pianomam]

@1grandmajoyce So many good points. I think the biggest help we can offer is to buy from shelters, kill or not. While I agree with you about kill shelters to a point, there's one thing to keep in mind. Some shelters, which can't claim "no kill" status, are only called "kill" shelters because they WILL humanely euthanize a dog if it's truly suffering or is so aggressive that it's a huge risk to the other animals and people. I agree with euthanasia in this instance, although it's soooo hard!