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Mackenzie Tecco

Debock

English 3 Honors

4/18/2017

Topic: Rescuing animals from shelters vs. buying from a breeder

Thesis Statement: Why should you rescue an animal from a shelter rather than buying from a

breeder or a pet store.

Barley, Lisa. "Rescue Me." Vegetarian Times, no. 417, Dec. 2014, pp. 48-51. EBSCOhost,

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live&authtype=uid.

The article Rescue Me talks about what to do and what not to do when adopting a new

pet from a shelter. The article also talks about some popular myths about adopting versus buying

from a store or breeder. The author Lisa Barley also talks about multiple organizations that are

available if you are interested in helping out animals. This article was a good fit for my research

paper because of its information on why people should rescue animals and how to go about

adopting.

Bowman, Alisa. "The Adoption Option." Prevention, no. 5, 2015. EBSCOhost,

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In The Adoption Option, author Alisa Bowman states multiple reasons why you should

adopt and not shop when getting a new pet. She talks about how adopting a dog from a shelter
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can ultimately save you money and how shelters know more about their dogs than breeders.

Bowman also talks about the amount of dogs that are in shelters and what percent actually get

adopted. This article was perfect for my service hours research paper because the author gives

great reasons as to why people should get their pets from shelters versus a breeder or a pet store.

Solotaroff, Paul. "The Dog Factory." Rolling Stone, no. 1278/1279, 12 Jan. 2017, p. 42.

EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=120528745&site=eds-

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In Paul Solotaroffs The Dog Factory he gives a chilling first hand account of a puppy

mill in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He describes the gruelling process of organizing a

puppy mill raid. He also describes how easy it is to accidentally purchase a puppy from a mill

and how common it is. Solotaroff then goes on to talk about the auction him and other

investigators went to which involved the sale of puppy mill dogs and how one man from a Texas

rescue, who spent 60,000 dollars to save twenty dogs. Solotaroff went into more detail

describing the Texas man and his efforts to help save dogs from mills. I choose this article

because of its detailed description of the puppy mills and the efforts of people trying to stop

them.

Sorentrue, Jennifer and Pat Beall. "Brutal Beginnings." IRE Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 2013,

p. 18. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=aqh&AN=88181929&site=eds-live&authtype=uid.

In the article Brutal Beginnings by Jennifer Sorentrue and Pat Beall, they write about

an investigation into upscale pet stores and where their dogs come from. In the article they give

a full first hand account of the full investigation from beginning to end and how they figured out
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how thousands of dogs were being bred at puppy mills and sold to pet stores around the county.

The article also gives a detailed description on how to track puppy mill sellers in your own area.

I decided to use this article because it goes along with why people should not adopt from pet

stores and it explains how to tell if a dog in a pet store is from a puppy mill.

Taylor, Judy Sutton. "Pet Shop Pain: Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation across the Country Is Dogging

Pet Stores." ABA Journal, no. 12, 2015, p. 9. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.437222845&site=eds-live&authtype=uid.

The article Pet Shop Pain: Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation across the County Is Dogging

Pet Stores talks about how areas across the United States are making it illegal to buy animals

from mills to sell in pet stores. The author Judy Sutton also speaks about how different

organizations are trying to fight against horrific puppy mills. In the article the author also talks

about how these new laws are affecting pets in shelters. I choose to use this article for my

research paper because it gives good examples of ways to help animals in shelters.

10152652173065943. "Why Rescue Dogs Make The Best Service Dogs Of All." The Dodo - For

Animal People. N.p., 20 Mar. 2015. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.

In the article Why Rescue Dogs Make The Best Service Dogs Of All, the author talks

about different reasons why rescue dogs are good service animals. In this article they also talk

about different people who have rescue dogs that are service animals and they describe their

daily life. Also in the article the author talks about different organizations that take dogs from

shelters and train them as service dogs. This article will help me write my research paper

because of its information on how shelter dogs are being put to work.
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