According to an animal welfare site, CAPS, Kathy Bauck had several businesses under different names.
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Kathy Bauck's Internet Puppy Businesses
Pick of the Litter, aka Puppys on Wheels and POTL Puppys
In 2007 and 2008, Kathy Bauck sold 180 puppies in a 10 month period to individuals all over the country. Between November, 2007 and November, 2008 Kathy Bauck sold 262dogs online.
Bauck had two online websites: www.puppysonwheels.com and www.potlpuppys.info (POTL stands for Pick of the Litter)
She also promoted her online businesses through these websites:
Domesticsale.com
Chicago.kiji.com
Hoobly.com
Puppyfind.com
Mypetlisting.com
Ads may be listed under Corinne, who is Kathy's daughter.
Her USDA license is now listed under Puppys on Wheels. Kathy Bauck's Internet Puppy Businesses |
Here's a partial quote from one of their investigations:
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Several Shelties housed underneath a pole barn had no hair. One CAPS investigator saw a dog with a prolapsed uterus. He also encountered a Dalmatian licking her dead puppy. The mother dog picked up the puppy several times and desperately tried to hand it to our investigator so that he could help her. According to a former Pick of the Litter employee, Ms. Bauck left puppies with the mother dogs so they could grieve. This employee claimed that dead puppies sometimes stayed in mothers' pen for as long as a week. Because Ms. Bauck's husband came into the kennel, the CAPS investigator was unable to take a photograph.
According to a former employee who filed a complaint with the Otter Tail Humane Society, Ms. Bauck threw dead dogs in a manure spreader. This employee saw her throw live newborn puppies in the spreader. The employee rescued the puppies. This employee stated that Pick of the Litter had animals buried out back or burned in the wood burner. In addition, she claimed there were dead dogs under the hay shed and in the silo.
Another former employee told the local humane society that Ms. Bauck made her hold down a mother dog while the owner did a C-section without adequate anesthesia. The mother and puppies died. CAPS Investigation (Fall 1997) - Companion Animal Protection Society |
I get really upset when people say they buy their dog over the internet without checking kennel conditions. Look at all the places she sold her dogs. Everyone always says, "she was so nice, over the phone." If you buy a pet over the internet, or through a pet stone, you are condoning the suffering of thousands of dogs.