Victory! Harper County Board of Commissioners Rejected Application to Keep and Bleed Dogs

Update (September 16, 2025): Great news! After hearing from you and tens of thousands of other compassionate people, the Harper County, Kansas Board of Commissioners rejected a local man’s application to keep and bleed numerous dogs there. 🥳🥳🥳

Please take a moment to thank the Harper County Commissioners for protecting dogs from being caged and bled their entire lives. You can contact:

Chair Brian Waldschmidt
Commissioner Melinda McCurley
Commissioner Darrin Struble
Harper County Board of Commissioners
[email protected]

Original post:

Dogs need your help ASAP: A guy named Jonathan Wilson has asked to keep and bleed many dogs on a property near Danville, Kansas. 😰 The Harper County Board of Commissioners will vote on the application on September 15—please urge the Board to vote “no”!

Wilson isn’t a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician in Kansas, so how is he qualified to take blood from dogs’ jugular veins? Crude animal blood banks like this are some of the shadiest places on Earth. A PETA undercover investigation into one in Indiana found that it warehouses hundreds of dogs and cats in kennels and crowded pens for life. Workers snatched stray animals off the streets—and even answered ads offering to give unwanted animals a “good home”—only to put them in cages and bleed them until they died.

With the success of community-based blood banks (which get blood from animals living in loving homes), there’s no need to imprison dogs like Wilson wants to do in Harper County.