Labradoodle at pet store

[al haskins]

No one apparently wants a four month old, tall, labradoodle at fancypuppy in corona. They have dropped the price and will probably take anything. We have two already, but I thought if someone wanted the fellow in the Southern California area it might be worth a look. I just feel sorry for the guy and I already have two. Here is the email. [e-mail]

Apparently, they also give a ten year health warranty....not sure what that means.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/08/oceanside-outlaws-sales-of-pup...

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/08/oceanside-outlaws-sales-of-pup...

and many more on a search

[BG and Gavin]

Poor darling :(

[Julie and Max]

poor guy spending so long without being able to run and play. :(

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

From the reviews, it sounds like this is a chain that only sells puppies not pet supplies or anything.  Cruel for a pup at this critical time in his life to be living in a store. 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

He has spent his entire life in a cage; he was born in a cage, he was nursed in a cage.  He does, however, hopefully get a reprieve from cages. His mother is not so lucky. She will spend her entire life in a cage, most likely on chicken wire, her feet never touching the earth, never hearing a kind word or feeling a caring touch, filthy, matted, hot in summer, cold in winter, with the poorest of food and medical care, until she is too old or too sick to breed, at which point she will be destroyed. This is the Catch 22 of "rescuing" puppies by buying them from pet stores. When you do, your money goes to reward and support that kind of cruelty and abuse, and ensures that it will continue. The only way to end it is to stop rewarding it. 

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Good point!  I've seen the results of the mills just like you, and sadly the state where I live has way too many of these scumbags - puppy mills, not pet shops. The pet shops with live puppies are almost gone.  I agree the real source of this misery are the people who buy the puppies in pet stores and over the internet. As long as there are customers the mills will find a way to sell, sell, sell.  It's 2015 and with all the information and help available, there's really no excuse for rewarding these people.if you're smart enough to read a book about how to care for your puppy, you're smart enough to figure out how to find a good, or at least a humane, breeder.  If you don't, you are the problem.  Rant over.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Amen,

[Julie and Max]

I wish more people understood that Karen. There are no pet stores here that sell animals anymore, the only animals that are ever in the pet stores are rescue animals up for adoption from the local humane society or rescue groups when they have adoption days.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

And the Anti-Puppy Mill Groups have programs to help pet store owners convert their businesses from selling puppies to being "outlets" or satellite locations for local shelters and rescue groups, as well as selling food, toys, beds, collars, and other pet supplies, even becoming upscale 'boutique" type shops; nobody expects or wants these people to lose their jobs or their livelihood. It's been very successful for those store owners who are willing to do it, and it's great for the shelter animals too. They get more public exposure, they get nicer surroundings, and they often even get better treatment than they do in the public shelters. Win-win.

[F, Calla & Luca]

That's great.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Here's one success story, there are many more like it: http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/03/discount_p...

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

That's a positive step.