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Puppy mills: Activists shed light on dark underbelly of pet breeding business
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This overhead view taken on June 30, 2020 shows workers tending to dogs at a rescue shelter in Jakarta. (AFP/Adek Berry)
What’s in front of her shook all her senses. Right off the bat, Yurike Lanser was greeted with an unsightly scene.
Small cages, one on top of the other, each cramped to the brim with at least five dogs that barely have any space left to move.
But absent from the room is the putrid smell of feces and urine one would expect from so many dogs in one place.
The air was heavy nevertheless, loaded with the chemical smell of detergents.
“We feel our eyes sting as we enter the room. It seems like the owner of the place was trying to clean things up with detergent, even when the dogs were all still inside,” 48-year-old Yurike told The Jakarta Post on June 15.
Altogether, Yurike and her team rescued 104 dogs from the puppy mill in East Jakarta earlier this month.
Yurike, who founded the dog adoption center Dogs Need Love in Bogor, West Java, said puppy mills were becoming a prominent problem lately.
