Sentences with phrase «puppy at our local pet store»

Not exact matches

Despite all the toy choices at your local pet store, you should only offer your puppy strong, durable, well - made toys that are sized appropriately for him.

At a local pet store, she ran across a former animal control officer from her town... who filled her in the rest of this story... of this dog's siblings... two died as puppies.

They call it «freedom flights» from the Bahamas when it's really nothing more than exploitation for profit while at the same time, local politicians outlawed pet stores from selling puppies bred by American dog breeders.

The mayor of St. Petersburg Florida is proposing an ordinance that would ban the retail sales of puppies in pet stores in the hopes that it will boost adoption rates at local shelters.

Please read the Affidavit in its entirety: Former Vet Employee Affidavit If you would like to voice your concerns about the puppy mill industry, a local pet store and / or veterinarian to your government, please email us at [email protected] and we will gladly provide you with the contact information for your local governing authority.

If there is any compassion at all for the animals bred and raised under these miserable conditions, we need to stop buying puppies from pet stores and instead adopt from local humane societies / shelters or rescue groups.

Ever wondered what that little puppy has undergone before it landed up at your local pet store?

The bad news, according to a survey * released recently by Best Friends Animal Society, is that more than 40 percent of Americans are unaware that virtually all pet stores obtain dogs from puppy mills and nearly one in five people still chose to purchase a new dog at a local pet shop rather than adopt from a shelter or rescue organization.

-- We sent mystery shoppers to local pet stores, seeking information we could use should pet storeowners appear at the next committee meeting, and uncovering numerous code violations, unhealthy puppies, and shifty sales tactics in the process.

Dog and cat owners say the best way to crack down on illegal puppy mill operators is not to ban the sale of dogs and cats at local pet stores, but rather to enact and enforce tougher breeder standards (67 % vs. 33 %).

But our collective desire to shut down puppy mills has been co-opted to support an ill - conceived campaign to prevent the responsible sale of dogs at local pet stores.

Ask your vet (they may hold young puppy socialization parties at their practice), local friends who have dogs or the local pet store and utilize the internet as a resource.

You can buy it at your local pet store and it is perfectly safe for your puppy but he will NOT like the taste of it at all.

These puppy store demonstrations, which are really public information and educational activities, have been very successful in ending the sale of puppy mill dogs at a number of local retail outlets in L.A. and Orange County and even contributed to a national mall chain's decision to phase out pet stores in their malls in favor of hosted adoption events by rescues and shelters.

If there is any compassion at all for the animals bred and raised under these miserable conditions then we need to STOP BUYING puppies and all other products from pet stores and instead adopt from local humane societies / shelters or rescue groups.

With support from The Humane Society of the United States, Joe Seneshale, owner of Joe's PET DEPOT, will no longer sell puppies at his stores, and has converted to a humane business model of selling pet supplies and making available homeless dogs and cats from local animal sheltePET DEPOT, will no longer sell puppies at his stores, and has converted to a humane business model of selling pet supplies and making available homeless dogs and cats from local animal sheltepet supplies and making available homeless dogs and cats from local animal shelters.

Puppy mills are an unacceptable problem, but the Pet Leadership Council believes pet store bans prohibiting people's right to purchase dogs at local shops is not the solution.

Both puppy pads and odor eliminators can be purchased at any of your local pet stores or conveniently online at Amazon's Dog Supplies

Puppy mill dogs are not only sold in pet stores, but also through the internet, at flea markets or advertised in local newspapers.

The premise of their attack is based on the belief that pet stores are responsible for (1) local pet overpopulation, (2) increased population at shelters, (3) the high shelter euthanasia rates and (4) the sale of sick dogs from «puppy mills» to unsuspected consumers.

It's hard to imagine, when you see an adorable, healthy - looking puppy peering back at you through the glass of your local pet store, where that four - legged furball came from.

The measure, if passed, would have gutted Florida's cities and towns of the home - rule authority to ban the sale of cruelly - bred puppies at retail pet stores, invalidated existing local bans and prevented communities from enacting similar bans in the future.

Shut down every pet store that * sells * puppies (and kittens)... this has to be done at the local, county, state, country and global level and it must be enforced.