Sentences with phrase «large dog brokers»

In 2008, The HSUS unveiled an eight - month investigation into Petland and its relationship with large dog brokers and the commercial breeding industry.

The USDA even recently gave a huge business loan to the largest dog broker in this country, the HUNTE Corporation.

Was one of the largest dog brokers in Minnesota.

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On Tuesday afternoon I received a copy of the Inspector General's audit of the APHIS Animal Care Program — Inspections of Problematic Dealers. This report was not based on a handful of breeders, either. In fact, the report looks at 4,250 violators. The inspection was spurred by significant media coverage concerning large - scale dog dealers (i.e., breeders and brokers), animal rights groups, Congress and the public.

The investigative work the team has done has already shown that Texas pet stores, in addition to buying directly from breeders with Animal Welfare Act violations and from brokers who work with puppy mills, are also buying dogs from this market here in Canton — and many large - scale breeders come to sell here.

A six - month search of public animal transport records in multiple states has revealed that more than 95 percent of the retail chain's stores are supporting puppy mills by purchasing their dogs from large - scale dog brokers and / or directly from puppy mill operations.

Since the ordinance passed, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC)-- a group heavily funded by Petland (the largest pet store chain in America selling puppy mill dogs) and the Hunte Corporation (the largest broker in puppy mill dogs)-- has turned up the heat in Cook County and the state of Illinois.

It's unfortunate but true that large - scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs bred continuously to exhaustion.»

In 2006, the AKC's Board of Directors signed a contract with Petland pet stores to facilitate the registration of dogs sold by Petland and purchased from the Hunte Corporation, the largest commercial puppy mill broker in the United States.

The investigative work the team has done has already shown that Texas pet stores, in addition to buying directly from breeders with Animal Welfare Act violations and from brokers who work with puppy mills, are also buying dogs from this market in Canton — and many large - scale breeders come to sell here.

A large breeder (Class A, USDA - licensed) in Morrison County is A.J. Angels (formerly Clearwater Kennel) with 1,030 dogs and puppies per 2016 USDA inspection report; this breeder has sold primarily to brokers.