Petland Puppies Puppy Mills

America s largest chain of puppy selling pet stores petland inc is also the nation s largest retail supporter of puppy mills.

Petland puppies puppy mills. At the time we linked petland to mass production puppy mills sparking nationwide demonstrations. Petland naperville s dogs are all purchased from usda facilities. Usda licensed commercial breeders account for less than 20 of all breeders in the country. We often hear the question where do your puppies come from and do you get your puppies from puppy mills our puppies come from commercial breeders and they do not come from puppy mills petland makes frequent trips to visit their breeders.

Collectively these stores sell tens of thousands of puppies each year. Petland encourages the highest quality of pet care and is committed to improving conditions for all dogs in the communities the company serves. The unregulated breeders who are selling outside of the usda regulations and without a license are what we consider to be puppy mills. The animals are all sick.

We work very hard to make sure we are getting the best puppies from the best breeders. Read class action complaint here. Petland boasts that its puppies make healthy and happy family pets. Cindy szczudlo rescue manager at the organization says that 80 dogs arrived at its rescue from mills in the midwest just last week.

One of petland s primary missions is to enhance the human animal bond and provide life long companions for its customers. I also got a bacteria infection from the dogs so they fired to me avoid a lawsuit. Puppies sold in petland stores are healthy and come from high quality breeders. They are from puppy mills and i saw at least twenty puppies die within my six months of being an employee of petland.

There are more than 200 petland stores worldwide with about 140 in the u s. Stores in 2008 to only about 80 today. Since that investigation the number of petland stores in the country has dropped sharply from 140 u s.