No Christmas puppy … supplemental
By Gina Spadafori
December 13, 2004
The Boston Herald reports on their investigation of pet-store puppies:
Profit-hungry puppy peddlers are taking advantage of lax state oversight to warehouse animals in inhumane conditions and foist sick dogs on unsuspecting families.
A Herald review of thousands of documents and interviews with former pet store workers and anguished customers exposed shocking cases of pooches caged in filth, treated superficially by store veterinarians and sold so ill they perished in their new owners’ arms.
As I’ve said before: Laws won’t stop this. The lobbying in favor of such cruelty is too strong. Puppy mills will stop only when people stop buying from pet stores.
