Late yesterday, members of the HSUS and other consumers filed a class action lawsuit against Petland, Inc. and Hunte Corporation alleging that the companies sell unhealthy puppy mill puppies to unknowing consumers.
According the HSUS press release, the class action lawsuit was filed in a Phoenix federal district court after an eight month investigation by the HSUS into multiple Petland stores that were directly linked to puppy mills.
The complaint was 34 pages long and included examples of pets that got sick or died after being adopted. Petland, however, denies it practices false marketing of sick dogs or utilizes the services of puppy mills.
Considering Petland is the largest chain pet store that supports puppy mills and Hunte is one of the country's largest distributes of inhumanely bred dogs, this is a major step in the fight against puppy mills! For more information about the horrors of puppy mills, check out the HSUS's Stop Puppy Mills initiative.
Post to come soon about the Athens County Humane Society's upcoming "Puppy Mill Awareness Week."
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