Petland Puppies Puppy Mills

Petland by continuing to source commercially bred puppies and by pushing for legislation that would stop localities from banning puppy mill sales is essentially bucking a nationwide trend and attempting to set the clock back on all the progress made over the past several years to end the cruelty of puppy mills.

Petland puppies puppy mills. At the time we linked petland to mass production puppy mills sparking nationwide demonstrations. Hsus says the usda took this photo at a puppy mill in missouri that has sold dogs to petland usda hsus the north shore animal league america in new york regularly rehabilitates dogs from puppy mills. Read class action complaint here pdf. This store petland is not at all as innocent as you think.

Petland also has an adopt a pet program in which some petland store operators make available their highly visible petland display windows to aid in the placement of homeless pets in local communities do pet stores buy from puppy mills. Collectively these stores sell tens of thousands of puppies each year. Many shoppers of the pittsburgh mills know the cute little pet store with puppies and other animals on display as you walk past the store front. In fact the chain has been caught on multiple occasions for mistreating their puppies to the point that veterinary assistance is useless.

Essentially this means petland is still selling puppies from puppy mills. Instead many of the puppies sold by petland come either directly from puppy mills or puppy brokers such as hunte which operates as a middleman between the mills and petland s retail stores. These animals should not have to suffer like this. There are more than 200 petland stores worldwide with about 140 in the u s.

We work very hard to make sure we are getting the best puppies from the best breeders. Stores in 2008 to only about 80 today. But john goodwin senior director of the humane society s stop puppy mills campaign contends there are loopholes that have allowed petland to profit from unhealthy animals including offering. Puppies that come from puppy mills them get sent to petlands have so many diseases including parvo making them too weak to survive.

America s largest chain of puppy selling pet stores petland inc is also the nation s largest retail supporter of puppy mills. Cindy szczudlo rescue manager at the organization says that 80 dogs arrived at its rescue from mills in the midwest just last week.