Tag Archives: Puppy mills

Friday Focus: Making Rescue Less Necessary (or How to Avoid Internet Puppy Mills)

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 16, 2010
The question this week was How do you define rescue? Plenty of people provided excellent definitions in the comments section. And others admitted to having fallen short of the ideal. So the more I thought about it, the more I thought about how defining the term isn’t useful. This site is about education, not recrimination. [...]
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Friday Focus: Dog Rescuers, Defined

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 11, 2010
This week’s question was inspired by my friend Clare — well, actually, more or less demanded by her. It started when an acquaintance of Clare’s who had initially expressed interest in rescuing a dog ended up buying one from a Pomeranian breeder with this over -the-top website. Clare joked, “I usually don’t approve of buying [...]
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About My New Book: Am I Boring My Dog?

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 13, 2009
I met my friend Michael for dinner the other night, and excitedly hauled out my advance copy of Am I Boring My Dog. After browsing through it for the requisite time to indicate interest, he said: “I thought it was just going to be a bunch of funny anecdotes. This looks very informative.” Perhaps I [...]
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The Dog Food Debate: Opening Up a Can of Worms

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 10, 2009
I don’t mean the title of this post literally, though fresh worms would be an improvement over the ingredients contained in  some dog food. But a discussion on Twitter — if you can call a series of 140-character bursts a discussion — spurred me to venture into the arena. When it comes to dog food, [...]
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Puppy Mills, Twitter & Not Minding Your Own Business

By Edie Jarolim | Published: May 20, 2009
It all started with a casual request from a fellow dog Twitterer for me to submit a photo of my pup for her site. I’m always happy to share Frankie’s cute mug with others, and it looked like she ran a nice, small dog supply business. Sure, I said. After submitting the photo, I clicked [...]
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