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A Nova Scotia dog blogger has come up with a novel way to fight puppy mills.

Hearing that a husband and wife dog breeding team were continuing to sell dogs even after their facility was raided, dogs were seized and charges were filed, Joan Sinden took it upon herself to deal their business another blow.

Last week, she bought the Internet domain names of the couple — gailbenoit.ca and danabailey.ca – both of which now link to her web page containing information about their controversial history of selling allegedly unhealthy dogs.

“I just want to educate people,” said Sinden whose blogs is called dogkisser. “I thought someone should do it and I already had most of the information together already.”

The Nova Scotia SPCA this month filed eight charges against Dana Bailey, 46, and his wife, Gail Ruth Benoit, 39, of Roxville for allegedly selling four dogs that died hours after their new owners received them last summer.

Autopsies showed the dogs died of parvovirus, a highly contagious canine illness often fatal in young dogs.

Sinden said she wants to persuade the couple to earn a living another way.

“I have owned dogs that came from puppy mills and I have seen the effects of it,” Ms. Sinden said. “I see the fact that their teeth are rotten and they have no hair and that they’ve had a really shitty life and I don’t think it’s right for animals to have to live like that.”