Sentences with phrase «mill owners sell»

Puppy mill owners selling dogs online had escaped federal oversight because of a loophole in federal Animal Welfare Act regulations exempting Internet sellers.

Not exact matches

Regardless of what the pet store owner tells you, and regardless of the fact that the dog they're selling has AKC (American Kennel Club) papers... dogs sold from pet stores ARE from puppy mills and NOT from quality breeders.

The committee also actively supports the HSUS» Puppy - Friendly Pet Store Initiative, which works with pet store owners to have pet adoptions stations instead of selling pets supplied by puppy mills.

Puppy mills contribute to pet overpopulation, particularly in urban areas, and are known for their poor living conditions that lead to diseased animals often being sold to unsuspecting pet owners across the country.

This workshop featured four speakers: one about increasing adoptions in shelters, one about decreasing the number of puppies from puppy mills sold in pet stores, one from HSUS's Pets for Life program about helping under served pet owners, and one from Coalition to Unchain Dogs, a group that builds fences for dogs who previously lived on a chain.

It also shows, despite the way some organizations and individuals think, the solution to pet overpopulation is not rooted solely in stopping puppy mills or preventing pet stores from selling dogs and cats or even in making all pet owners spay and neuter... The solution needs to be a balanced approach in which breeders, pet stores, shelters, rescues, humane organizations, veterinarians, and pet loving individuals come together and help find the «homeless» pets their forever home.

Never allow my stud dog to be bred to any bitch whose owner is known at the time to be directly or indirectly involved with any puppy broker, puppy mill, pet shop selling dogs, litter lot sales, or any other wholesale distributor whose business is involved in like activities.

MCSO is treating the case as an animal cruelty / puppy mill situation, although the owners deny that they were breeding and selling the dogs.

Greg Gordon, the owner of Dog Patch Pet and Feed a pet store that sold commercially bred puppies, and the Cari Meyers founder of The Puppy Mill Project an anti puppy mill organization stopped yelling at each other and learned they had something in common.

Protect Consumers: Sick puppies sold by puppy mills typically can cost their new owners hundreds or even thousands of dollars in veterinary care, if they live long enough to be sold.

However, sadly, the mills still sell where they can at auction and online to often unknowing pet owners.

Five years ago, Mindi Callison, founder of Bailing Out Benji, learned that the owner of Dyvig's Pet Shoppe in Ames, Iowa was getting the puppies he sells in his store from two large puppy mills.

There's an important tool to help in the fight against puppy mill puppies sold through pet stores: They're more likely to be aggressive with their owners, strangers and other dogs.

Hidden in that bill is a loophole for pet store owners who want to continue selling animals bred in cruel mills.

While the team couldn't figure out exactly how old B.B. was, they could tell by her swollen mammaries that she'd been bred over and over again, and that she'd nursed many litters of puppies — whom the puppy mill owners probably sold for a lot of money.

In September 2011 Aeneas and his wife sold the farm and mill to its new owners, Andrew and Anne Smith.