Madonna Tickets Fetch $100,000 to Help Dogs in Puppy Mills

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Madonna Tickets Fetch $100,000 to Help Dogs

in Puppy Mills

PR Newswire

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 2012

PHILADELPHIA

,

Aug. 9

2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MLAR Advisory Board Member

Susan Rosen donated four tickets to Madonna's 2012 World Tour to Main Line

Animal Rescue's annual fundraiser. The tickets were part of a special auction

held on

August 4th

to benefit the

Pennsylvania

animal shelter.

Nick Adams and Dee Silvers bid

$100,000

for four tickets to Madonna's

August

28th

concert in

Philadelphia

(the first U.S. city in Madonna's world tour). The

money is believed to be the highest paid for concert tickets and the money

raised will help support Main Line Animal Rescue's programs rehabilitating

breeding dogs rescued from

Pennsylvania

's puppy mills, as well as MLAR's anti-

puppy mill campaigns.

Mr. Adams and Miss Silvers and their friends Celeste McQuade and Larry Liss

are long time supporters of Main Line Animal Rescue and will be attending the

concert in

Philadelphia

on the 28th of this month. "To me Madonna has always

symbolized freedom and strength. But when I think of puppy mill dogs, I think of

confinement, and dogs weak from over-breeding and lack of veterinary care.

We just wanted to do whatever we could to help these dogs," said Miss Silvers.

Hundreds of thousands of breeding dogs continue to live in deplorable

conditions in puppy mills throughout

the United States

and

Canada

. Often

confined to tiny, stacked cages for the entirety of their lives, puppy mill dogs

are bred every heat cycle until they die or are destroyed. Puppies bred in U.S.

puppy mills are often sold in pet stores or over the Internet while their mothers

remain behind living lives of abject misery.

Contact Bill Smith [phone] or [e-mail]