Connecting Sources

Source A: “How much is that Puppy in the Window” This article discusses animal advocates role in putting an end to animal suffering in mills. Their aim is to make laws aimed at shutting down large commercial breeding sites. Such as a law that prevented pet stores from purchasing their adoptable animals from large and poorly run puppy mills in attempt to put the mills out of business. Breeders are also taking a stand by suing the USDA because their laws would likely put them in the hole financially. It has been a constant war between animal advocates and breeders.
Source B: “Puppy mills: Misery for sale” This source and source A both mention that the USDA lacks the monetary resources needed to enforce laws made to regulate puppy mills. As well as how strict laws may put pet stores out of business so they are usually not put into action. Both say that action needed from the government at the top to the pet adopters at the bottom.	Source C: “SOMETHING STINKS: THE NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF PUPPY MILLS” agrees with source A and B with the idea that action is needed from federal government before changes start to happen.  But also states that customers are creating a problem by purchasing puppies from stores that receive shipments from puppy mills. When a puppy is adopted, there is a new spot that the pet store needs to fill with another puppy from the mill, it’s a vicious cycle.
Source D: ASPCA website states that regulations that are supposed to be enforced by the USDA are not even relatively close to humane. Also mentions that violations of the few laws that regulate puppy mills go unpunished. The article also mentions good news: federal inspectors are now allowed to go behind closed doors in kennels in order to check for safe and humane conditions for the animals are in tact.	Source E:

Paraphrasing Activity

“The air conditioner was not working, and the temperature inside was 100 degrees. A mechanic heard whimpering and discovered that 1.50 purebred puppies constituted the vehicle's cargo. Four were dead; the survivors, traumatized and suffering from heat exhaustion, could barely hold up their heads”

(Sacks, Pamela. "Puppy Mills: Misery FOR Sale." Animals 133.5 (2000): 10. MAS Ultra – School Edition. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.)

1.     A broken air conditioner in a dilapidated van was responsible for a dangerously high temperature of 100 degrees. If it were not for an observant mechanic who heard the puppies whimpering out of agony then they would have continued their journey in the van. 150 puppies 4 of which were dead.

2.     150 puppies, 4 are dead from heat exhaustion. This is the scene a mechanic walked into when he opened the door to a non air-conditioned van carrying puppies from a puppy mill.

3.      While working on an old dilapidated van, a mechanic heard whimpering coming from inside. To his surprise he opened the door up to an unsightly scene: 150 limp puppies, 4 were dead and the ones who were alive were suffering from heat exhaustion.

“The overwhelming smell is always the first to hit you. ⁿ² Next it is the sound; twenty-five to forty wire mesh cages, many containing multiple puppies, line the walls of this Conshohocken, Pennsylvania pet store. The cages have drip pans underneath, which are supposed to allow for easy clean up of waste, but the puppies are still covered in their own excrement and urine.”

Towsey, Melissa. "Something Stinks: The Need for Environmental

Regulation of Puppy Mills." & Library Solutions. Joe Christensen, Inc. with Full

Text. 2010. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.

1.     The overwhelming smell of animal feces is the first thing you notice when you enter a puppy mill.  The next is the puppies jammed into wire mesh cages against the walls. There are pans under each cage to catch waste from dogs so that it makes for an easy clean up yet the dogs are still soiled from their own excrement and urine.

2.      You walk in, and the smell smacks you in the face: animal feces. Next, you see where the odor is coming from. Multiple puppies are piled into cages much to small and are soiled with their own excrement and urine because the facilities neglect proper sanitation.

3.     The unpleasant smell of animal excrement and urine is impossible to ignore as you walk into a puppy mill. The poor animals are soiled in their own waste due to improper sanitation.

Annotated Bibliography and Project Proposal

Mary Margaret Favia

Dr. Walts

College Writing II

23 March 2015

Annotated Bibliography

Etter, Lauren, and JILL SCHACHNER CHANEN. "How Much Is That Puppy In

The Window?." ABA Journal 100.8 (2014): 11-12. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.

“How Much is that Puppy in the Window?” explains how animal welfare advocates are making moves in the right direction such as passing laws through legislature geared towards shutting down large, commercial puppy mills; as well as passing laws making it illegal for pet stores such as Pet Smart to buy from puppy mills.

Towsey, Melissa. "Something Stinks: The Need for Environmental

Regulation of Puppy Mills." & Library Solutions. Joe Christensen, Inc. with Full

Text. 2010. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.

"Something Stinks: The Need for Environmental Regulation of Puppy Mills" discusses the consequences of purchasing puppies from facilities that get their dogs from puppy mills. It also opens up a new spot to be filled by another puppy and the cycle starts all over again.

Sacks, Pamela. "Puppy Mills: Misery FOR Sale." Animals 133.5 (2000): 10. MAS Ultra –

School Edition. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.

“Puppy Mills: Misery FOR Sale” is an article that gives vivid depictions of what an actual puppy mill atmosphere is like. It describes the non-air-conditioned areas in which the puppies reside and the maggot infested food in which the puppies consume

ASPCA. "Laws That Protect Dogs in Puppy Mills." ASPCA. N.p., n.d. Web.

03 Apr. 2015.

“Laws That Protect Dogs in Puppy Mills” is an article off the ASPCA organization non-profit website that informs readers about the current legislation regarding animal welfare and laws to protect consumers.

Interview

Mary Margaret Favia

Professor Walts

College Writing II

3 April 2015

Project Proposal

            Because puppy mills are poorly regulated society has become accustomed to adopting pets that are bred in hazardous living conditions. Unknowingly, society continues to adopt pets from pet stores that buy from puppy mills, thus fueling the vicious cycle, as more puppies must be produced to maintain profits. These unsafe living conditions for the mistreated animals opens up all sorts of ethical questions about treatment of animals and what is right, wrong, or gray area. If our own household pets were once put through these lousy conditions, what is stopping society from allowing unsafe living conditions in other adoption facilities? My sources specifically identify what the current laws and regulations regarding puppy mills are, what the typical living conditions of mills are, as well as the impact of animal cruelty on society and why we should care about it. My last source will be comprised of an interview from a volunteer from a non-profit animal shelter, Wags To Wishes. My paper also begins to explore possible short term and long term solutions to this problem and addresses a way to inform society not only of the dangers of puppy mills but also of the lasting effects and their impact.

Applying Analytical Move to Rhetorical Analysis

As I sit on one of the many identical and uncomfortable chairs in Charlie's Place, I notice the beautifully stained glass lamps. They hang from a series of tracks on the cieling creating a warm glow. As lunch time approaches the aroma of freshly baked bread swirls in the air tempting everyone's tastebuds. By the absence of the usual line of students, I know the workers in Charlie's are not serving lunch yet. The tables in the center of the room are empty, everyone seems to gravitate towards the comfortable booths that line the far wall. One boy walks in alone and takes a seat at the bar style counter to avoid awkwardly siting alone at an empty table.