Personally, I think the solution for petstores, is to make it illegal to sell dogs and cats in pet stores. I dare say people could not afford to buy pets from a store that only buys from reputable breeders. The pet stores have only paid 1/3 of the price they are asking for those babies when they sell them. Not only that, a reputable breeder WANTS TO BE ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE NEW OWNERS AND WITH THEIR BABY FOR THE LIFE OF THAT BABY...that is one way we track the success of our program. A reputable breeder would NEVER let their babies go off into the sunset, with complete strangers, and not give too hoots and a holler for where they are going, the situation they are going into, etc. Now, I feel compelled to express a concern I have. I too am completely horrified at the activities of Petland and their involvment with Make A Wish and St.Judes hospital. But I am really torn emotionally about boycotting these two wonderful charities that have done sooooooooo much for CHIDREN NEEDING HELP. I just can not justify, in my own heart and mind, cutting off my support of these charities, which I have contributed to for many years, because they gave a puppy to a sick child.(This too causes me alarm....a sick child, with an impaired immune system, given a puppy that may be sick....shudder!!!!!) I am going to have to think about this and what I can do to effect a positive outcome.....lets dont run like a bunch of lemmings, off the cliff, following the leader in mass hysteria, trying to nobly solve one problem, and doing too much collateral damage to innocent children that have done nothing to deserve it. I wont take my anger and disgust toward Petland and their tactics, out on reputable charities that do so much good for sick and dying children. I would hope others would give this more thoughtful and compassionate consideration before "rushing to judgement" and punishing the children served by these two charities. A sick and dying child does not deserve to be collateral damage.
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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I too was unaware with Petland's reputation, until I found Yorkietalk, and think these organizations would be horrified to find that Petland's was using them to help improve their name. While I'm sure the pet Petland offers them, is probably one of the healthier ones, it doesn't change the fact that they buy most of the pets from millers.
Does anyone know how to get one of those online protest going? You know where you publish a page with an easy way to contact both charities, or have a list of signatures to supply to the charities to discourage involvement with such a Petland? There should also be an alternative suggestion to as to where to get dogs, I don't think rescues are a viable option in this case, but is there any pet store that does ensure that the dogs aren't raised in mills? Do we suggest that they only get them from reputable breeders, but how would this be done? Protests work better if a viable alternative is given. I wish pet stores could be given some sort of a rating, I think some are definitely worse than others. Thanks to all of you who have help educate us with this news.[/QUOTE
There is a site called change.org where individuals can start a petition. That is the only one I know of. |