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Originally Posted by red98vett

OMG That was just horrible - here's parts of that article .....and when I mentioned you won't see a breeder on the paperwork - I meant a REAL breeder - most likely you'lll see names on paperwork of the puppy mill breeder on Petlands papers...I guess I don't consider a mill as having breeders - they're GREEDERS who give real breeders who love dogs a bad name.

copied in case people don't click the link MONDAY provided.

While healthy, wonderful dogs are exterminated by the millions in shelters due to lack of homes, pet stores like Petland continue to sell puppies as fast as they possibly can, making weekly orders from the Hunte Corporation.

Hunte puts these tiny, frightened, helpless, and fragile puppies in cramped cages on its trucks and takes them on the bumpy, unhealthy ride to pet stores up to 1,000 miles away. These puppies can die quickly, but their parents endure a lifetime of suffering as they spin, chew, dig, bark, and finally give up all hope of escaping the misery of puppy mills.

The Hunte Corporation is currently the largest puppy broker in the U.S. It is based in Goodman, Missouri. It buys puppies from puppy mills in several Midwestern states and then sells them to pet stores all over the country, including many Petlands.

Villette,
This is where Dori came from and this is what I was talking about that makes me cry. It was also the month of February when we bought her, you can imagine how cold and scared she had to have been...The article I read stated the same thing and there isn't heat or a/c on the trucks, they just throw a huge heavy tarp over the cages and go......you would think on the $$$ side of this, the brokers would at least have conditions better than this to avoid losses.............I look at my babies now all snuggled up in my big down comforter on MY bed and imagine those that are stuck in outside freezing cages and crates...its more than I can handle..but, we can't ignore it and pretend its not there.