Rescued! Dog Saved From Hellish Local Puppy Mill

Seoul — A blind dog named Paalang has been rescued from a filthy puppy mill and adopted into a loving home, thanks to a recent PETA investigation into South Korean puppy mills. PETA’s investigators found the scared and confused puppy spinning in endless circles inside a filthy pen, blind due to inbreeding or a prolonged, untreated illness caused by living in squalor. In the new home that PETA found for her, she has stopped circling and cowering in fear and is learning how to explore the outdoors and trust her new family.

Video footage from PETA’s investigation can be seen here, and footage of Paalang’s rescue can be viewed here.

Paalang before and after.

 “The dogs for sale in South Korean pet stores come from filthy puppy mills, where dogs just like Paalang shiver in fear and spin in circles in distress,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA urges everyone to remember Paalang’s story and pledge never to buy an animal from a pet store or breeder.”

PETA’s investigation found that dogs were prematurely separated from their mothers, confined to small pens or rusted cages with painful wire-mesh flooring above piles of feces, and left to suffer from inflamed, open sores. Following the passing of the revised Animal Protection Act on April 27, PETA is calling on officials to take action to shut these abusive warehouses down.

PETA also urges prospective dog guardians to adopt from animal shelters, where millions of deserving dogs are eager to experience the same love and kindness that Paalang now enjoys.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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