 The Humane Society of the United States' eight-month investigation reveals that many Petland stores across the country are marketing puppy mill puppies to unsuspecting consumers.
America's largest chain of puppy-selling pet stores, Petland Inc., is also the nation's largest retail supporter of puppy mills. Despite assurances by staff at many Petland stores visited by The HSUS and on Petland's corporate website that the company knows its breeders and deals only with those who have "the highest standards of pet care," many of the puppies sold at Petland stores come from massive commercial breeders in Missouri and other Midwestern puppy mill states, where hundreds of breeding dogs are packed into cramped, barren cages.
These dogs receive little or no veterinary care and never see a bed, a treat or a toy. After their fertility wanes, breeding animals are commonly killed, abandoned or sold to another mill. The annual result of all this breeding is hundreds of thousands of puppies, many with behavior and/or health problems.
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