From the Washington Post website:
“Volunteers with A Forever-Home Rescue Foundation and Homeless Animal Rescue Team (HART) wait to pick up puppy mill dogs at Greenbriar Shopping Center in Chantilly, Va. Forever-Home volunteer Debbie Marson, left, exclaims as the truck arrives. The local groups are working with the National Mill Dog Rescue organization, which has formed an alliance with puppy mill breeders to pick up “surplus” dogs that would otherwise be destroyed…”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/11/11/GA2009111125285.html?hpid=artslot
This was an amazing experience. Truly we saw the best and worst of humanity this evening. It is hard to imagine that anyone could treat animals as horribly as they are treated in puppy mills. But the outpouring of support for these rescued dogs and pups was truly amazing. Emotions ran high for all of us that night. We cried for what these animals had been through and rejoiced in their new found freedom and soon to be happy lives. This was a great night for these precious animals.