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

Update (September 16, 2025): 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.

Original post:

A man named Jonathan Wilson has requested to keep and bleed numerous 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” on it.

Wilson is neither a licensed veterinarian nor a registered veterinary technician in Kansas, prompting concerns about his qualifications to provide adequate care for dogs, take blood from their jugular veins, and more. A PETA undercover investigation of a crude animal blood bank in Indiana that warehouses hundreds of dogs and cats in kennels and crowded pens for life found that its workers removed stray animals off the streets—and even answered ads seeking homes for unwanted animals, offering to give them a “good home”—only to put them in cages and bleed them until they died.

Harper County shouldn’t expose its residents and their beloved companion animals to this shady, secretive and unregulated industry. And given the success of community-based blood banks (which obtain blood from animals who live in loving homes), there’s no need to imprison dogs the way Wilson desires to do in Harper County.