Are puppies this summer’s prime stolen property for money-pinched bad guys? I’m beginning to wonder if it’s a sign of the poor economy or maybe something else. Someone grabbed some puppies from the humane society where we adopted Lilly last week, then a few days later someone took puppies from a kennel.
What’s interesting is that the kennel owner was recently acused of animal cruelty, which has people in the local humane community speculating that someone took the pups to protect them. It’d be interesting if that was true, but my guess is that someone wants to sell them for money.
Two things caught my attention and made me go Hmmmm: 1) The number of missing pups wasn’t known until kennel “inventory” was checked. 2) The pups taken were not all from the same litter.
Those 2 things scream puppy mill to me.
If you’d like to learn more about the relationship between high-volume kennels and pet stores, please read the article I wrote for the June 2008 issue of The Bark magazine (page 49). The piece outlines 2 scams puppy mills use to fool even smart consumers, but it begins with an introduction explaining how puppy mills came into being when puppies became a “cash crop.”
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