Petland Puppies Puppy Mills

At the time we linked petland to mass production puppy mills sparking nationwide demonstrations.

Petland puppies puppy mills. Puppies that come from puppy mills them get sent to petlands have so many diseases including parvo making them too weak to survive. We often hear the question where do your puppies come from and do you get your puppies from puppy mills our puppies come from commercial breeders and they do not come from puppy mills petland makes frequent trips to visit their breeders. We work very hard to make sure we are getting the best puppies from the best breeders. Read class action complaint here pdf.

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. 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. 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. These animals should not have to suffer like this.

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. There are more than 200 petland stores worldwide with about 140 in the u s. 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.

Stores in 2008 to only about 80 today. Since that investigation the number of petland stores in the country has dropped sharply from 140 u s. 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. Collectively these stores sell tens of thousands of puppies each year.

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