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“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Costa Rica Puppy Mill Investigation
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	no author  "last chance for Animal"
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Last chance for animals
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Last Chance for Animals
Date Page was Last Revised	January 2012
Date You Read It	February 13th,2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.lcanimal.org/index.php/investigations/investigations-in-the-field/costa-rica-puppy-mill

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

In Costa Rica the animal protection and rescue community are struggling to get the governments attention to "put an end to puppy mills"

They have footage of evidence of the illegal conditions the mills where put in such as they state " rat infested makeshift kennels covered with feces, no protection from weather extremes, no opportunities for exercise or socialization, mother dogs forced to whelp their pups in overcrowded dirt enclosures".

The SENASA group stops the rescuers to do the procedures to the mills when they rescue them because "of the bureaucracy or personal corruption".

IT shows how a dog whisperer comes in to speak with the animals and telling individuals "adopt don't shop", for people not to buy the puppies that are coming from the mills.

Costa Rica is telling us that they "will continue to work with groups inn Costa Rica to educate the public and put a stop to puppy mills in Costa Rica", as longs as others are involved the cause for the animals should begin to stop.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

            This article talks about how in Cost Rica the animal protection and rescue community battles with the Costa Rican government to put an end to puppy mills. They even teamed up with LCA for help to obtain video footage. SENASA could not ignore the evidence of cruelty. They decided to do something about it. 

Credibility of Source: 

Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

There is no author stated. But the special investigations unit fund the site toward the protection of animals.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

This article is simply informative. It is informing online viewers that animal abuse should stop. It shows how animals are tortured from all over the world. They also team up with other programs to stop this terrible problem.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

Yes, the author is against animal abuse in his article. He strongly shows that he dislikes animal abuse. He decides this cruelty should stop.  

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

There is no author to reference for the site. 

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I will use this source to support my opinion on how animal abuse is a negative act towards them. I will show facts on how it should stop. I will use this article because it states a lot of details on animal abuse.