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Media Alert: Press Conference -- Saturday; Mother's Day Gift to Puppy Mill Survivors
By MARKET WIRE
May 9, 2008 - 10:36:01 PM

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/09/08 --

WHEN:   Saturday, May 10, 2008        11:00 a.m.WHERE:  Hi Puppies!        955 South Vermont Avenue, Suite B        Los Angeles, CA  90006

WHAT: Hi Puppies' primary supplier is World Kennels, a puppy mill that wasrecently exposed as having more than 400 dogs at their unlicensed facility.Hi Puppies sells these dogs for several hundred to thousands of dollarseach. Just days ago more than 100 dogs, mostly exhausted mothers used forconstant breeding, were liberated from the hellish life at World Kennelspuppy mill in LA County. Best Friends is leading the adoption andrehabilitation of the dogs. World Kennels came under fire after aninvestigation by Last Chance for Animals.

The perception is that puppy mills are a Midwestern disgrace but Californiais fast becoming the puppy mill capital of the West.

So to bring awareness for these amazing mothers who are also puppy millsurvivors this Mother's Day Weekend, it just seems fitting that theselittle moms will go from being numbers to being given names of their own.

One particular dog will also receive a Mother's Day card with 50 paw printswhich represent the puppies that she and mother dogs in puppy mills acrossthe country are forced to produce over the course of their sad,heartbreaking lives.

WHO: Last Chance for Animals, an international non-profit animal advocacyorganization based in Los Angeles, Best Friends Animal Society, and motherdogs rescued from World Kennels puppy mill.

Also available for interviews:LCA spokesperson, Carole Raphaelle Davis, author "The Diary of Jinky, Dogof a Hollywood Wife."Jana Kohl, psychologist and author of "A Rare Breed of Love."Jane Velez-Mitchell, CNN anchor and author of "Secrets Can be Murder."Carol Leifer, writer, "Seinfeld."Ellen Lavinthal, founder and president, Animal Alliance.

LCA's roots began in investigating and exposing the inherent cruelty ofanimal research. LCA fights for the rights of animals by conductinginvestigations that expose animal cruelty, launching public awarenesscampaigns, pushing animal friendly legislation and assisting inprosecutions of animal abusers. For additional information on LCA and itsactivities, visit www.LCAnimal.org.