Andrea Rosebrock 
Oprah’s show on puppy mills on 4/4 garnered a huge public response and did wonders to raise public awareness of the atrocites at puppy mills.
Today, capitalizing on that show’s momentum, Oprah is again ‘going to the dogs’. This show will be to push for public support for Gov. Rendell’s proposed legislation to overhaul PA’s dog laws. Pennsylvania has been long known as the ‘Puppy Mill Capital’ of the US and Gov. Rendell is proposing some sweeping changes and it looks like Oprah is behind him and the changes. Take the time to watch this no doubt, highly enlightening show!
Talk about a lobbyist with clout.
Oprah Winfrey – the woman with the power to send authors to the top of the New York Times best-seller list – is planning to appeal to viewers tomorrow [5/7] to back a crackdown on puppy mills in Pennsylvania.
Winfrey is expected to read excerpts from a letter Gov. Rendell sent to her last month seeking support for legislation to overhaul the state’s dog law, according to participants in a Monday conference call with producers of The Oprah Show.
A spokesman for the show declined through e-mail to comment on the program for the live show. (Philly.com)
Tomorrow’s show follows an investigation by the show highlighting abuses in Lancaster County commercial kennels. The video showed sick dogs, dogs crammed into small cages, and dogs being mishandled by owners.
It generated one of the largest e-mail responses in the show’s history, a spokesman said.
Two years ago, Rendell vowed to improve conditions in Pennsylvania’s commercial breeding kennels. He wrote Winfrey after the show aired seeking help to counter “strong opponents in the breeding industry.”
Pennsylvania is not the only State that has terrible legislation regarding Puppy Mills. Oklahoma ranks right up there with the worst of them and when Mills are shut down in other states, they race to Oklahoma because our laws are outdated and have many loopholes where these abusers can operate with little oversite or penalty.
I applaud what Oprah is doing to pass legislation to end the suffering of animals.
Mary Allen
There are many states in need of major reform when it comes to ‘commercial breeding’ laws, my own state of WI is also one of them. I’d love to see them all enact massive reform but maybe it will take one at a time and more can follow. I’ll applaud each and every one until there are none left that allows the atrocities of puppy mills!
Wouldn’t it be nice if all 48 states would implement the same legislation so that there would be no question about inforcement and no confusion when these puppy mill criminals are sentenced.
It will be a blessed day when deferred sentences are a thing of the past and repeat animal abusers go to jail and required to serve ALL of their time with no possiblity of paroll.
AMEN!!!