HSUS puppy mill probe focuses on Petland
America’s largest chain of puppy-selling pet stores, Petland Inc., is also the nation’s largest retail supporter of puppy mills, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
An eight-month investigation by the HSUS reveals that many Petland stores across the country are marketing puppy mill puppies to unsuspecting consumers. There are more than 200 Petland stores worldwide, with about 140 in the U.S., and they sell tens of thousands of puppies each year.
Many of the puppies sold at Petland stores come from massive commercial breeders in Missouri and other Midwestern states, where hundreds of breeding dogs are packed into cramped, barren cages, the HSUS says.
The HSUS is urging people to contact Petland’s corporate headquarters to ask Petland to stop selling puppy mill puppies.
Posted by jwoestendiek November 24th, 2008 under Muttsblog, videos.
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