Petland Puppies Puppy Mills

Collectively these stores sell tens of thousands of puppies each year.

Petland puppies puppy mills. 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. 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. 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.

Read class action complaint here pdf. 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. These animals should not have to suffer like this.

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

Stores in 2008 to only about 80 today. This store petland is not at all as innocent as you think. There are more than 200 petland stores worldwide with about 140 in the u s. Cindy szczudlo rescue manager at the organization says that 80 dogs arrived at its rescue from mills in the midwest just last week.

We work very hard to make sure we are getting the best puppies from the best breeders. 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.