I went to Petland here (in Saskatchewan, Canada) one day and asked the store manager if they bought their puppies from puppymills. He said that he has heard lots of stories about the US stores selling puppymill pups and that they weren't under the same ownership. He told me that the US stores, although they share the same name, are under completely different ownership, and even have different head offices and rules for their company. He told me that they get their puppies from local breeders and they are randomly checked up on, etc. He even told me that if I want to get a puppy from their store (which I absolutely totally did NOT want to, I was just curious) I could even go on these random checks and view some of the breeders and the puppies.
I don't know about this, has anyone else heard that Petland in the USA is different from Petland in Canada?
I would never buy from a pet store anyway, but it would be nice to know that Canada's petland's puppies don't come from puppy mills!