Puppy Mills

Jason is fully operational. He has gathered a sizable team and there are ready to rock. And he has 2 targets in his sights.

1 is puppy mills. That has not changed. But he has changed his tactics, somewhat. His night-time ops now are more geared toward surveillance and intel gathering. Info is then turned over to whomever he thinks can pull the weight and get the dogs out legally. He has been on numerous ops with the SPCA and Humane Society. He was on one recently that liberated 800 dogs.

And that is the problem. Too many dogs. What do you do with that many dogs, or any dogs that are liberated. A dozen is one thing. But even 20 to 30 is hard to arrange care for, more for a wereforce than for the SPCA.

Jason says seeing the puppy mills in daylight is much more heart-breaking then at night. He says the misery is more glaring. He says most of the dogs in most mills, especially the larger ones, have never had an ounce of warmth of decency shown them. They don't know what to do when they are held for the first time. "They just stare at you with uncertain, terrified eyes," he told me. They are often covered in sore and infections, have rotten teeth and have no social orientation.

His group is working with some other groups to tackle internet sales, which are completely off the USDA radar. (The USDA regulates "pet sales.")

2 are neos. They are in his sights. They are also a consideration for pulling back on night time ops and liberation raids. I wrote about the first I did with Jason last year, that involved weredogs and werewolves, in which we were ambushed by neos and sustained several casualties, but did acquire a neo corpse. That corpse has answered lots of questions.

But Jason says there have been several other night ops where they had to withdraw due to strong neo scent, and could not account for or locate any neos. Fearing more ambushes, they withdraw. Several surveillances have even ended that same.

But Jason is adapting his tactics and strategies, often to be more in line with the law. But he is not scaling back, at all. He says he can't. He says once you see a liberated mill dog step on grass for the first time, and see their confusion and eventual euphoria, you can't even think of giving up. And that happens all the time, he says.