LAWD ! that's like when they do DUI crackdowns and tell the whole city where the Po-Po checkpoints are going to be......or warrent roundups.... I can see the cops now -

Let's see...we can CALL FIRST to see if the criminal is home lol -

nice system......really nice

Hallelujah -- I love it! No need to censure, no need to close a thread. Read if you want, don't if you get upset. Let everyone feel free to post, agree or disagree, as long as they remain civil -- it's all good!

you have to love it doncha!! tell the criminals the plan so that they have enough time to choose whether they want to get caught or not...great world we live in isn't it!?

I am definitely interested in seeing it!

Yep......utterly amazing. The one investigator actually told me they made an appointment.
I have to say that I was flabbergasted.
What the heck kind of investigation is that?

OH DEAR! an appointment to arrest someone!? what are they thinking truly??

No...an appointment to check on the welfare of the animals on her property.

So then a good breeder would WANT to do this..so why so many that dont?

YOu gave me my first real good laugh of the day lol..thank i needed that

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I just wanted to point out that this isn't true. Our Petland's (and all pet stores) here in Canada (I live in BC too!) DO in fact get their puppies from puppy mills. What "good breeder" or even homebreeder would sell their puppies to a pet store? Our Petland's up here are the same deal as the ones in the states. We bought our pug dog from Pet Habitat @ Brentwood Mall in Burnaby, BC . She is suffering from several genetic defects, one of them being spondylosis. She can hardly walk anymore, and has no control of her bowel movements. I must carry her everywhere she needs to go. This poor dog has really had a life of suffering and will be PTS soon at the age of 8. Do you know where the pet store got her from that sold her to us? HUNTE CORPORATION, which is currently the largest puppy broker in the U.S. If you don't believe me you can watch the link which is an investigation by CBC News on March 6, 2009. The Pet Habitat that they are discussing in their broadcast is the one that I bought my pug from, and the investigation proves that both that store and PJ Pets get their puppies from HUNTE CORPORATION.

How Not to Buy a Puppy | CBC News: Marketplace

Do you know what makes me sick? The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council of Canada (PIJAC) has their seal of approval on Pet Habitats website. They are interviewed in this news article and are pretty much turning a blind eye to the puppy mill problem. We bought our pug because we couldn't stand to watch her suffer the way she was in that store. We had no intentions of getting a pet at that time, and the PIJAC approves of this place? :mad: What is the Canadian government going to do to stop the sale of dogs from Hunte Corporation from crossing our borders? We have just as much of a problem up here in Canada with puppymills as the states do. Their Missouri puppy mill capital is our Quebec puppy mill capital (just google Quebec puppy mills, and you will see).

I'm sorry to bump such a contraversial thread, but I couldn't NOT correct this misinformation. It is SO important that Canadians know that we have as much of a problem with puppy mills here as anywhere else. Please DO NOT support Petland, Pet Habitat, or PJ Pets by making purchases at these stores.

With hundreds of thousands of dogs born into puppy mills each year, Canada has become a haven for the puppy mill industry—and for unimaginable cruelty against our best friends.



Each year millions of Canadian companion animals are destroyed due to the greed of commercial puppy mills, the ignorance of back yard breeders and irresponsible pet owners. New laws, public awareness & compassion will end the suffering of the voiceless. Please help the animals.







CanadaNoPuppyMills.com

Puppy Mills | Humane Society International

No Puppy Mills Canada

CFHS | Puppy mills

Thanks for reading! :)

thanks lilmissy for all that wonderful information, i'm ok with bumping the thread as long as there is quality information coming up!! :)

i don't understand why governments do not close pet stores and make them all adoption only facilities like petsmarts or petcos, they don't sell the animals they bring in shelters from all over the area to display the animals often and send them home with loving families ready to take on a rescue animal.

selling a puppy in a window for $1000 with supposed AKC registration papers isn't anymore responsible than selling them for $400 with APRI papers. it's disgusting that those babies are cooped up with each other in tiny windows and bothered by thousands of new people every day...i would never buy from a pet store...think of all the germs and things those puppies are exposed to from all those people playing with them and the other little puppies around them...they are way too young to be fully vaccinated and most are way too young to leave their mommys...(I did take that advice and store it away after all :)) i just think it's sad how they are treated in pet stores and yet governments have never passed legislation to close the animal selling part of pet stores.

Over a $94 Billion Dollar Industry...Lobbyists....Do you really think the government is just going to change this? It is up to US (you and me) to get the laws changed. Please go to Prisoners of Greed and see what you can do to help make the change. Just saying poor puppy is not going to do that.

The Petlands here refer to their puppies as "yorshire terrier TYPE" because they aren't able to have the puppies registered, so they must refer to them as "type". The price....$1200+ :thumbdown They will refuse to give you ANY information about where their puppies come from either. Any person dealing with a responsible breeder should be able to show you the paper work without you purchasing a puppy. They even go as far as to post signs in their stores stating that their puppies come from responsible breeders. YEAH RIGHT! :mad: I won't even buy a bullystick from there, it makes me so angry.

We dont have a petland but have an Uncle bills petstore and they say the same thing that their puppies come from breeders but I believe they come from puppymills. I dont buy anything in that store and its too bad for them because I buy alot of fish supplies