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ARMONK, N.Y. Adopt-A-Dog shelter in Armonk sponsored Pup My Ride Tuesday where young dogs were taken from puppy mills in the south to the shelter for life-saving care.
Its great, Ive been doing it a while and it never gets old, said Ron Rose, the dog caretaker. They come in shy and we try to open them up. Sometimes theyre malnourished or have skin diseases so we get them healthy and try to socialize them so we can find them new homes.
One hundred and fifty dogs were brought to the shelter and Adopt-A-Dog kept 10 to treat and nourish back to health. The others were picked up by similar shelters that have the same goals of bettering the dogs health and finding them long-term owners.
Rose says puppy mills are places where people hoard dogs for the purpose of breeding them. They keep breeding them until they cant breed anymore and subsequently the mills become overpopulated and the dogs are not cared for properly, he said.
According to Rose, dogs that are raised in puppy mills could remain in cages their entire lives.
We got a couple Beagles one time that had probably never even seen grass and when they got here they were really happy, Rose said.
The dogs that were taken in by the shelter must remain in quarantine for two weeks to make sure they dont have diseases. During that time, Rose and others at the shelter bring the dogs up-to-date on their shots and spay or neuter them if theyre strong enough to undergo those procedures.
Within two to three weeks of arriving, theyre added to the Adopt-A-Dog website and put up for adoption.
We got a lot of small ones this time and small dogs are a lot easier for us to take care of and theyre more adoptable these days. People dont want the big dogs, Rose said. Weve got a kennel full of big dogs were trying to adopt and were a little slow right now.
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