The bill would prevent
buyers of sick puppies from recovering high veterinary costs and prohibits Georgia's cities and towns from passing their own laws to keep puppies that are cruelly bred out of their pet stores.
The New York state attorney general's office is suing a pet store chain, saying it sold dozens or hundreds of puppies without required veterinary exams and failed to reimburse medical expenses to
buyers of sick puppies.
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The New York state attorney general's office is suing a pet store chain, saying it sold dozens or hundreds
of puppies without required veterinary exams and failed to reimburse medical expenses to
buyers of sick...
It is about
puppies from undernourished mother animals, many
of which will be
sick or die before the heartbroken
buyer realizes their mistake.
The lawsuit, which alleged that Barkworks orchestrated a scheme to trick
buyers into purchasing
sick puppies sourced from
puppy mills in violation
of California consumer protection laws, was resolved to the mutual satisfaction
of the parties.
One aspect
of our work has always been to help
puppy buyers who have the bad, terrible experience
of seeing a newly bought pup fall
sick, or worse, die shortly after joining their family.
We'd ask her about another key responsibility
of reputable breeders: Will she take back a
puppy who turns out to be
sick or support a
buyer who has behavior or health questions later on?
Though the Pet Protection Act
of 2015, which is what the new bill amends, was meant to attack the problem
of pet stores selling
sick animals, and protect
buyers as well, survivors
of kitten and
puppy mills were still being sold in stores.