When lifelong animal lover Theresa Strader heard about a massive dog auction in Missouri in 2007, she thought she would check out the scene and adopt a pet or two. "I said, 'I'm set up to take care of two or three of them,' " remembers Strader, 48, a pediatric nurse and mom of four from Black Forest, Colo. But when she arrived at the auction site - a collection of tents set up by a large-scale commercial breeder going out of business, a.k.a. a "puppy mill," says Strader - it broke her heart. "The first thing that hits you,...
- 11/15/2012
- by Sydney Berger
- PEOPLE.com
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